"activated" the urban space include Mitchell Sipus and Fabiana de Barros. It was attended by 150 artists from 48 countries. 9th Bienal de La Habana Subject: Dynamics of urban culture Director: Rubén Del Valle Held in 2006, this edition was intended to draw attention to contemporary visual culture, which owes much to the popular components in the urban scenario, architecture and graphic elements that produce a complex web of relationships, coherent in some cases, chaotic in others, but undoubtedly essential in the landscape of everyday life. Topics such as demographic implosion, traditions and informal economy, urban transformations operated by real estate companies associated with tourism, the multicultural city, accelerated urbanization, uncontrolled urban growth, advertising saturation, poverty and gentrification, ruralization, and culinary culture and identity were developed. There were also urban interventions in streets, bus stops and, to a lesser extent, interactive ones such as the itinerant project Museo Peatonal (Pedestrian Museum). 113 artists from 49 countries participated in the event. 10th Bienal de La Habana Subject: Integration and Resistance in the global era Director: Rubén Del Valle It was held from March 27 to April 30, 2009, within the framework of the 25th anniversary of the event. Experts from the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center reviewed more than 400 proposals submitted by artists from 44 nations. For the first time, the organisers decided to include western countries. The 10th edition added conferences, workshops, master classes, documentaries and video screenings. The artists transformed the city into a showcase of contemporary art, taking over all available urban spaces and municipal galleries. Common topics included the tensions between tradition and contemporary reality, challenges to the historical processes of colonization, the relationships between art and society, individuals and memory, the effects of technological development on human communication and the dynamics of urban culture. The curators for this 2009 Biennial were Margarita González, Nelson Herrera Ysla, José Manuel Noceda, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal and Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda. Selected Cuban Artists Projects Jose Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) – Herd of elephants Mario M. González – Collective exhibition on the global theme “Flag” with around 200 artists Wilfredo Prieto – Star in the sky of Havana Liset Castillo – Archaeology of Power Yoan Capote – Open Mind René Francisco Rodriguez – Interpret Alexander Beatón – The Permanent Race Duvier del Dago Fernandez – The Black Box Los Carpinteros – Fluido