Afterall Publishes Book on 1998 Bienal de São Paulo's Anthropophagic Model

Afterall Books has published 'Cultural Anthropophagy: The 24th Bienal de São Paulo 1998', marking the sixth installment in its Exhibition Histories series. Released in 2015 and distributed by Koenig Books and ARTBOOK | D.A.P., this work explores the influential biennial curated by Paulo Herkenhoff. The 1998 event utilized the Brazilian notion of anthropophagy—cultural cannibalism—as both a framework and a technique, promoting the blending of art, culture, and political narratives. The book includes a primary essay by Lisette Lagnado, contributions from Renato Sztutman, Mirtes Marins de Oliveira, Carmen Mörsch, and Catrin Seefranz, an afterword by Pablo Lafuente, interviews with artists like Andrea Fraser and Dias & Riedweg, Oswald de Andrade's 1928 'Manifesto antropófago', and an unpublished script by Fraser. It also features extensive photographic documentation and a critical reassessment of this pivotal exhibition in biennial history, associated with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.