(Published on Art Taipei Forum July
http://www.atfm.asia/en/article.php?id=150 )
Documenta 13 set numerous records. First is the breakthrough of geographical limitations- besides in Kassel, Germany, the exhibition venues sprawls to Afghanistan, Egypt and Canada. It is a challenge for viewers’ bodies and brains as there are more than 30 sites within Kassel, among this 52 works sits in Karlsaue Park. Then it comes to the breakthrough of art itself, when the participants come from fields of art, science, philosophy, nature, music and so one whose ideas were realized in the format of paintings, videos, installations, forums, publications and performances. The director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev noted: "Documenta is more than, and not only, an exhibition—it is a state of mind." This so called "no concept" mega-exhibition was truly sense reviving, and was extremely profound, free and rebellious so that the visitors’ minds were blown in the misty boundary of art.
