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The Melbourne International Biennial 1999 was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne in partnership with Arts Victoria, the Victoria Department of Premier and Cabinet, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, and The University of Melbourne. Originally called "Melbourne Arts International", the event later changed name once the University of Melbourne was able to confirm the involvement of Frances Lindsay and Juliana Enberg, which resulted in a successful fund-raising campaign that increased the initial budget of $1 million.[1] The first edition, curated by Engberg and organized by Bala Starr was titled "Signs of Life", and ran from 14 May through 27 June 1999. Despite having promising figures (the exhibition was visited by 21,000 people) and the confirmation of Enberg as artistic director, the institutions attached to the project eventually pulled out and the Melbourne Biennial was discontinued after only one edition.
According to Enberg, "[Signs of Life was designed to exhibit] a very human set of projects, as should be the case as we leave the twentieth century and begin to engage with the next millennial frontier." The artists invited to the main exhibition were:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Francis Alÿs
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Terri Bird
Monica Bonvicini
Louise Bourgeois
Stephen Bush
Maurizio Cattelan
Brenda L Croft
Yael Davids
Destiny Deacon
PlamenDejanov & Swetlana Heger
Amanda Dunsmore
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Ângela Ferreira
John Frankland
Robert Gligorov
Robert Gober
Graham Gussin
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Meta Isaeus-Berlin
Lyndal Jones
Peter Kennedy
Martin Kersels
Job Koelewijn
Andrea Lange
Chad McCail
Aernout Mik
Tastuo Miyajima
Callum Morton
Deimantas Narkevicius
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
Mariele Neudecker
David Noonan
Susan Norrie
OLO
Anne Ooms
Catherine Opie
Miguel Palma
Cornelia Parker
João Penalva
Susan Philipsz
Patricia Piccinini
Hans Hamid Rasmussen
Nikolaj Recke
Torbjørn Rødland
Ugo Rondinone
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Dan Shipsides
Smith/Steward
Ricky Swallow
Francisco Tropa
Gitte Villesen
Kenji Yanobe
Miwa Yanagi
Li Yongbin
Following a method deployed by other art biennials like Venice Biennale and São Paulo Art Biennial, the Melbourne Biennale featured 11 national pavilions.
Austrian Pavilion: Anne Schneider, Elke Krystufek, Franz West (curator: Andraes Reiter Raabe)
Belgian Pavilion: Dirk Braeckman, Jan Van Imschoot, Sven 't Jolle (curator: Jan Hoet)
Canadian Pavilion: Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy Macleod, Ron Terada, (curator: Kitty Scott)
Chinese Pavilion: Wang Jianwei, Li Yongbin (curator: Huang Du)
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