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[email protected], LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM "At the end of the fifteenth of his 'Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind' Schiller states a paradox and makes a promise. He declares that ‘Man is only completely human when he plays’, and assures us that this paradox is capable ‘of bearing the whole edifice of the art of the beautiful and of the The 29 Sao Paulo Bienal curatorial team. From left to right: Fernando Alvim, Agnaldo Farias, Rina Carvajal, Chus Martínez, Yuko Hasegawa, Sarat Maharaj still more difficult art of living’. We could and Moacir dos Anjos. reformulate this thought as follows: there Politics and "The Political" at the 29th São Paulo Biennial exists a specific sensory experience—the Sep 25 – Dec 12, 2010 aesthetic—that holds the promise of both a by Octavio Zaya new world of Art and a new life for How do you follow, and what do you do after "The Void," the so-dubbed 28th individuals and the community. There are edition of the São Paulo Biennial (2008)? Its Artistic Director, the internationally different ways of coming to terms with this known and experienced curator Ivo Mesquita, left the huge second floor of the Oscar Niemeyer building entirely empty as a comment on the intricate bureaucratic statement and this promise.