"[…] the Indonesian city of Bandung, which — again, auspiciously, in 1955 — held the conference at which Asian and African countries that were not aligned with either the US-led capitalist ‘First World’ or the U.S.S.R.-backed communist ‘Second World’ sought an alternative, transversal community of so-called ‘non-aligned’ nations. This was the birth of the ‘Third World’ not as a racialized category of poverty or under-development, as it would become in the First World’s hierarchical imagination, but as a critical geopolitical entity, one based less on explicit ties of solidarity than on shared experiences of decolonization and an insistence on independence from the Russo-American binaries of the Cold War."
Biennales on the Edge, or, a View of Biennales from Southern Perspectives - Anthony Gardner
