Incase no one is aware, the Biennal started last week. An interesting line up this year as the curatorial workshops served to bring a young audience of international curators to Berlin. A handful of venues playing host to the various activities running from the 10th of July to the 8th of August. This coming Thursday sees the opening of performance exhibtion La monnaie vivante.

La monnaie vivante unsettles the division between audience and stage in the theater. The mode of appearance of the works dissolves the codes of theater through the reality of a live experience. The staging becomes a collaborative work in real time between the curator, the artists, and the participants, one which is determined by the rhythm with which the audience moves through the space. The exhibition takes place in the “here and now,” divorced from the chronological relationship with the works and in distinguishing the successive stages of production, from the rehearsal to the live performance. The events either follow one another or take place simultaneously; their visibility and their reading depend on the intensity of the relations between the participants. The visitor becomes the actor in a process, and he or she decides its duration—an hour, an entire day, or perhaps returning the next day.

So I can't tell you what to expect, I dont think anyone can, thats sort of the point, but with artists such as Santiago Sierra on the bill (again made unclear as to when exactly) Im going to dander down there on Thursday, and see what its all about.

There is a host of other exhibtions/ talks/ seminars that might be of interest, to have a look at the full programme go to http://www.berlinbiennale.de.