SIngapore Biennale as Cultural Globalization

In this respect, Singapore biennale offers an illustration of how globalization, as reflected in global cities rankings, in being favoured for global summits and conferences, and in the growth of service and cultural industries, translates into changing positioning on the global map of contemporary art (Tang 2007: 365). Even though following from governmental cultural policy, it is the economic globalization of Singapore, drawing international investment and tourist flows in its wake (Chow 2006), that gave a decisive impetus to the inauguration of Singapore biennale in 2006 more oriented to the global benefit it might give to the local cultural industry than to the political credit or corporate advertisement that would accrue from it (Tang 2007: 365).