多年前,大约2007年前后,我曾写过一篇关于双年展的文章《双年展综合征》。它属于那段时间对双年展的一系列批评的一部分。我的批评主要在于双年展的模式本身,它作为一个地方的旅游开发元素被推行,因此和某种经济转型开始阶段的定位纷争密切相关。这种转型给全球带来了极大的痛苦,为强化某个城市的形象而对它进行某种定位,这样一来就很难指望双年展对现状进行真正意义上的抵制了。我当时在文章中说,问题在于双年展这一形式本身,因为当你说“双年展”的时候,意思就是每两年一次,也就是说它从定义上 Years ago, around about 2007, I wrote an article on Biennale “Biennial Syndrome”. It belonged to a series of criticisms of the Biennale at that time. My criticism mainly lies in the mode of the Biennale itself. It is promoted as a local tourism development element and therefore closely related to the positioning disputes in the initial stage of economic restructuring. This transformation has brought tremendous pain to the world. It is difficult to expect the Biennale to truly resist the status quo in order to orientate a city to enhance its image. At the time, I said in my article that the problem lies with the Biennale itself, because when you say “Biennale,” it means that it is biannual, meaning it is defined by definition