Sounds like Venice 2011: Recent Episodes
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Sounds like Venice - sound art project, aural pavillon and multimedia blog live from the heart of the 54rd International Art Exhibition illumiNAZIONI. Sound like Venice 2011 is curated by Ilari Valbonesi and Alessio Fransoni, in collaboration with Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman - radioCona (Lubiana), NRBG- novi radio Beograd; Auropolis (Belgrado), Bootlab (Berlino) - and the personal vocation of a site - SPAZIO THETIS - for the relationship between contemporary art and technological research dedicated to environmental themes, eco-compatibility and innovation in artistic forms and electronic communication.
Matter of Sounds. Selected by Ilari Valbonesi.
Playlist:
Giusto Pio, Ananta da "Motore immobile" 1978;
Luciano Cilio, Interludio Da "Dialoghi Del Presente";
Prima Materia, The Tail of the Tiger 1977;
Lucio Battisti, Il Fuoco da Umanamente uomo: il sogno 1972.
Mary Sibande, born 1982, lives and works in Johannesburg. In Sibande’s practice as an artist, she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context, but also attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women in our society. The body, for Sibande, and particularly the skin, and clothing is the site where history is contested and where fantasies play out. Centrally, she looks at the generational disempowerment of the black woman and in this sense her work is informed by postcolonial theory, through her art making. In her work, the domestic setting acts as a stage where historical psycho-dramas play out. Sibande's work also highlights how privileged ideals of beauty and femininity aspired to by black women discipline their body through rituals of imitation and reproduction. She inverts the social power indexed by Victorian costumes by reconfiguring it as a domestic worker’s “uniform” complexifying the colonial relationship between “slave” and “master” in a post-apartheid context. The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in South Africa and by applying it to Victorian dress she attempts to make a comment about history of servitude as it relates to the present in terms of domestic relationships.
Rastko Lazic, "This Room is Too Small" - a collection of live improvisation pieces recorded in 2009-2010, Free Digital Download (Geneva, 06-2010) -
Playlist: 01. Honey 00:59
02. Second March 02:33
03. In Time 07:06
04. Cry 04:07
05. First part 1 05:57
06. Please Do Not 04:30
07. Nothing part 2 02:59
08. Nothing part 1 02:32
09. Hi Rob 05:48
10. First December 04:02
11. First part 2 08:26
12. Lag 03:16
13. Live Radio Hijacking 03:27
14. Four Pieces For Electronics 03:43
15. Sleep S. Sleep 03:36
15 pieces of live improvisations on an analogue modular synthesizer with very little post editing.
Recorded during the year 2009 and 2010.
Please visit my site for more info and music.
www.rastko.info
Interview with Lethole Mokoena, commissioner of " Desire: Ideal Narratives in Contemporary South African Art" at 54th edition of International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia; Artisti: Mary Sibande, Siemon Allen, Lyndi Sales; Curator:Thembinkosi Goniwe - Pavilion at . Venezia,Torre di Porta Nuova, Arsenale Nuovissimo
Cushman and Johannes Milms |soya-muzik.com and Bootlab.org | prepared a special episode on German Pavilion for Sounds like Venice: a one voice, multiple character radio play on Christoph Schlingensief's participation on the Venice Biennale in 2011. Biographical data and short descriptions of Schlingensief's works are combined with fake artistic suggestions, with comments, historical data, poems, field recordings and sounds of various kinds. The air of this intense radio play ranges between high culture trash, easy peasy fun and serious contemporary sound art and literature
30 Days of Running in the Place. Honoring Ahmed Basiony (1978–2011). Egiptian Pavilion this year is a tribute to Ahmed Basiony, who was killed in Tahrir Square during the protests in Cairo in early 2011. Interview with Dr. Ashraf Reda, Chairman of Fine Arts Sector at the Ministry of Culture
Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode… Indian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Interview with Gigi Scaria (painter, sculptor, video artist; born in Kothanalloor, Kerala, 1973; now lives in New Delhi)
Sounds Like Venice / Global Sounds - a selection of audio works around the world. The first podcasts collects works selected by AUROPOLIS – Association of Multimedia Artists from Belgrade.
1. Kralj Čačka, Kolega
Nenad Marić, better knows as Kralj Čačka is song writer and instrumentalist, academically educated painter and a poet. This piece is part of NRBG live session, took place some time in winter 2010.
- Toma Gouband, Callioux
Toma Gouband, drumist, improviser, searcher of - sounds, links between sounds, rythms' forms and rythms between rythms- plays with drums, stones, branches, some "boom" & some "tchak", a cymbow, futher dusters, bells, winds and, browsing -times, silences, densities- articulates a space sometimes agitated, sometimes still, till matters and airs meet & sing.
Boris Groys, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA, curator of The Russian Pavilion 2011. Curator of several exhibitions, including: “Dream Factory Communism”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M. (2004); “Total Enlightenment. Conceptual Art in Moscow (1960–1990)”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M./Fondacion March, Madrid (2008-2009); “Medium Religion” (with Peter Weibel) at the ZKM, Karlsruhe (2009). Recent publications:
The Russian Pavilion hosts an attempt to view CA’s actions retrospectively as life in art with an installation by A.Monastyrski “11” built on references to the historical and topological contexts and based on materials of CA’s 125 actions and compiled 10 volumes (work on the 11P thP is in progress) of the Trips out of Town books. Check the YOUTUBE
Sigalit Landau was born in 1969 in Jerusalem. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the Gallery Kamel Mennour, Paris, at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as well as the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and is at the moment presented as part of the Centre Pompidou's collections in the collective exhibition elles@centrepompidou. Based on Landau's historical research, the launching point for the new installation is the small three-tiered Israeli Pavilion building in which her exhibit will dwell – a structure designed in the modernist style. For her show, the building's entrance will be relocated to the courtyard – a space originally meant to be kept away from public view. "My work is of a bridge maker. [Un]consciously looking for new and vital materials to connect the past to the future, the west to the east, the private with the collective, the sub-existential to the Uber-profound, the found objects to the deepest epic narratives and mythologies… using scattered, broken words to define "the-bricker-brack" and transform it into a soft heap of new dream-buds, to act upon the uncertain horizon"
Opening of The Bangladesh Pavillion. 3rd June 2011. Gervasuti Foundation, Fondamenta S. Ana (Via Garibaldi) Castello 993 A. The Bangladesh Pavilion is a morceau of cutting edge creativity from Bangladesh: Five talented artists whose respective fortes draw from their forbearers, but who are at the same time, engaged in building defining pathways from here to the beyond. Imran Hossain Piplu, Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty, Mahbubur Rahman, Promotesh Das Pulak and Tayeba Begum Lipi all celebrate their contemporary experience in “Parables” – principally because of the capacity of each of the artist to pack in experience and meaning – alluding, challenging and opening eyes; and hence parables. The angst, the yearning and an interesting capacity to blend the autobiographical with the collective provide a distinctive narrative of our times.
Raša Todosijević awarded at the Venice Biennale
of the UniCredit Venice Award. Dragoljub Rasa Todosijević was born on 2 September 1945, in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in 1969. He works and lives in Belgrade, Serbia.
A PAINTER AND AN ART CRITIC
I used to know a handsome painter that had a hole in his head. One could judge, from afar, that the said hole was as wide and as deep as a rifle cartridge. And even though it has never been proved, malicious people say that, as years went by, it grew larger and larger. It won’t go amiss if I casually mention an art critic here, as well. He had, as did the painter, a hole, in the same place, almost of the same proportions. Whenever the two would meet, the holes would, with no visible cause, as if by some mysterious command, just so, simultaneously, on their own accord, start whistling. The painter would then prick his ears up, the critic would too, and they both would, hand in hand, enjoy themselves immensely, listening to their holes whistle on.
Raša Todosijević
Sanja Kojić Mladenov (born in Pančevo, 1974) - curator Serbian Pavilion 2011 - Light and Darkness of Symbols -
graduated in History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and is currently attending postgraduate interdisciplinary studies at the University of Novi Sad. Since 1995, she has been an author, curator, and selector of numerous projects related to the field of recent artistic practice, media, and gender. Since 2006, she has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad as a curator at the Department of Current Art Exhibitions.
Interview with Beral Madra, Curator of the Pavilion of Azerbaijan at 54th Venice Biennale; critic and curator, directed Gallery BM (1984-1990) and directing BM Contemporary Art Centre (since 1990); lives and works in Istanbul.
The Pavilion of Azerbaijan at the 54th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia. Interview with Aga Ousseinov
"My invention/project for the Venice Biennale is a seagoing submersible craft designed to metaphorically navigate the same sea of discord/unrest in the world. This is also apropos for an aqua-centric city such as Venice. The conceptual model for the vessel is based upon the tradition of the early Soviet “agit-trains”, which were designed by the constructivist artists as a kind of propaganda, or “agitation machines.” The vessel’s purpose will be to act in an interventionist-like manner, similar to a Trojan Horse that is designed to take people unaware due to its form, but which is actually designed to ambush the viewer through the use of propaganda. The appearance of the piece will be anti hi-tech, and will also “pretend” to deliver a strong message. The vessel installation will be similar to a room of curiosities, populated by 3D objects such as the vessel, (which is a very light structure more like a kite), a group of moving images, photographs, and scratched fresco reliefs.”
The Pavilion of Azerbaijan at the 54th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia. Interview with Zeigam Azizov
ZEIGAM AZIZOV on Symposium – Installation, Venice Biennale, 2011: Starting from my earlier work entitled “Migrasophia” (from migration+philosophy) my project addresses the condition of people’s movement as it is motivated by the philosophical discourse on images. My new installation “Symposium” continues this struggle.
Concerto Live con il Google Doodle interattivo del 9 giugno creato per la nascita di Les Paul, inventore della chitarra elettrica, nato 96 anni fa nel Wisconsin, negli Stati Uniti. Dopo aver studiato la registrazione multitraccia e la tecnica delle incisioni sovrapposte, fu lui a progettare nel 1952 il celebre modello di chitarra Gibson che, parallelamente alle Fender, contribuì insieme all'estro degli artisti di quegli anni a scrivere pagine importanti della storia del rock che proprio allora muoveva i primi passi. Molti tra i chitarristi più acclamati dagli appassionati del genere hanno pizzicato le corde di una Gibson: Jimmy Page dei Led Zeppelin, Joe Perry degli Aerosmith, Slash dei Guns N' Roses e dei Velvet Revolver, Ace Frehley e Tommy Thayer dei Kiss, Eric Clapton dei Cream Mark Knopfler dei Dire Straits, John Norum degli Europe, Richie Sambora e Zakk Wylde che hanno suonato rispettivamente con Jon Bon Jovi e Ozzy Osbourne. E ancora: Stef Burns, Neil Young, James Hetfield, Bob Marley, Allman, The Edge, Ray Toro, Steve Jones e Billie Joe Armstrong.
Sounds Like Venice / Global Sounds - a selection of audio works around the world. The first podcasts collects works selected by AUROPOLIS – Association of Multimedia Artists from Belgrade.
Authors/tracks:
1. James Watts, Nothing changes everything
2. Francesca Mizzoni, MOSKVA
3.ERUPTION (Ivana Garhovac, cello; Manja Ristić, violin; Rastko Lazić, electronics, objects), Banannacactus
4. VQRnR (Birgitte Lyregaard, Mathieu Calleja, Toma Gouband, Manja Ristić), Over the Rainbow
Interview with Artyom Ernst – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Belongs to the youngest generation of Uzbekistani artists, Artyom Ernst graduated from art school in 2010 and the Central Asia Pavilion in Venice is his first appearance on the international art scene. Having just recently finished school, Artyom shows sensitivity to the issue of studying and the relations of power it explicitly and implicitly involves. This problem is expressed in his video work, Frank Tili, depicting an English class in a regular Uzbek school
Interview with Dr. Lamees Hamdan, commissioner of the Pavilion of the UAE presents “Second Time Around” at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Initiated and supported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy and the Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the Pavilion of the UAE presents “Second Time Around” at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is developed and presented under the leadership of its Commissioner, Dr. Lamees Hamdan, a member of the Board of Directors of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Curator Vasıf Kortun, an internationally respected writer and Director of Research and Programs, SALT, Istanbul.
Interview with Bogdan Ghiu, editor of the catalogue of the project Performing History (co-editor Maria Rus Bojan) conceived as a special issue of nr 38 of the magazine IDEA, Arts + Society, the most famous and original contemporary art publication dedicated to critical thinking and reinvention of South Eastern Europe.
Interview with Bogdan Ghiu, editor of the catalogue of the project Performing History (co-editor Maria Rus Bojan) conceived as a special issue of nr 38 of the magazine IDEA, Arts + Society, the most famous and original contemporary art publication dedicated to critical thinking and reinvention of South Eastern Europe.
Interview with Ellen Blumenstein, curator of the Pavilion of Iceland at the 54th International Art Exhibition— La Biennale di Venezia with Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: Under Deconstruction
Conversation with Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson – Iceland Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
The official Icelandic representation at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is the Spanish-Icelandic duo Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson. Castro and Ólafsson’s exhibition for Venice, Under Deconstruction, presents four new works. Among their concerns is an interest in socio-economic and political issues in Iceland and elsewhere. The title of the project refers to Castro and Ólafsson’s central artistic strategy to subvert traditional power relations and to deconstruct established patterns of perception in an attempt to re-construct, appropriate and reinvent reality anew.
Interview with Tabaimo – Japan Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
In Japanese the exhibition title, “teleco-soup,” connotes the idea of an “inverted” soup, or the inversion of relations between water and sky, fluid and container, self and world. Coined by the artist, this phrase builds upon an intellectual tradition in Japan that grapples with the country’s identity as an island state, or what in recent years has come to be known as the “Galapagos Syndrome,” originally used to describe the incompatibility between Japanese technology and international markets but now applicable to multiple facets of Japanese society in the age of globalization.
The structure of the exhibition further references a proverb attributed to the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, “A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean,” and an addendum to the Japanese version of the same, “But it knows the height of the sky.” Through the use of a multi-channel animation projection and mirror panels, Tabaimo will transform the interior of the Japan Pavilion into a well and the open space beneath the Pavilion, which is raised on pilotis, into the sky.
Interview with Yuka Uematsu, commissioner of the Pavilion of Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Opening by Angel Vergara and Luc Tuymans - Belgian Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
For the Venice Biennale, Angel Vergara has devised a special project, which will occupy the entire space of the Belgian Pavilion. This project is inspired by the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Artist Luc Tuymans is the curator of this project and will accompany Vergara in this venture.
Intervista a Francesco Boni, storico dell’arte. Padiglione Italia. 54th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia
Interview with Abdullah Al Saadi – Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Abdullah Al Saadi holds a degree in English Literature from United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. In 1994-1996 he studied Japanese painting at Kyoto Seika University in Japan. He lives and works in Khorfakan, outside the art world and untethered by its demands and daily routines. His work is a daily practice of recording, inventing normative groupings, and documenting species that are beyond “scientific inquiry.”
Interview with Lateefa Bint Maktoum – Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Lateefa Bint Maktoum holds a degree in Visual Art from Zayed University, Latifa Collage. Her practice larger consists of composite, digitally manipulated images based on highlighted, enhanced, and conflated realities from her immediate memories as well as the distant past. Her compositions combine an aestheticism of British painting with enhanced local fauna and flora that sit in stark opposition to images of urbanization.
Interview with Reem Al Ghaith – Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Reem Al Ghaith holds a BSc in Visual Communication from the School of Architecture and Design, American University of Sharjah, UAE. Her work examines changes in the urban and social landscape of the UAE, often with sophisticated all-around installations that relate to tradition and history, yet do not fall into banal representations and fascinations of the subject. The intertwined structure of her work deliberately places itself far away from being representative.
Interview with Chiharu Shiota and James Putnam. Memory of Books, Gervasuti Foundation. 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Memory of Books at the 54th Venice Biennale, a new site-specific installation by Chiharu Shiota curated by James Putnam.
‘Memory of Books’ coincides with ‘The Knowledge’ an exhibition also curated by James Putnam at the Gervasuti Foundation and the launch of Chiharu Shiota’s new monograph with texts by Mami Kataoka and James Putnam published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin.
Interview with Yerbossyn Meldibekov – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Yerbossyn Meldibekov. After finishing the Zhurgenev Academy of Arts (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Yerbossyn has been working as a sculptor, author of objects and installations, and photo and video artist. He has participated in many Kazakh and international exhibitions, like the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), the 4th Video Art Biennale in Israel (2008), and 14th Biennale of Sculptures in Carrara (Italy, 2009). Solo exhibitions took place in Kazakhstan, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Great Britain (1997 – 2010).
Interview with Said Atabekov – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Said Atabekov. Installation, objects, photo and video artist. In 1992 he graduated from the Kasteev Art School in Shimkent. Both as an individual artist and as a member of the Shimkent art group Kyzyl Tractor (Red Traktor) has partecipated in more than fourty international forums, such as the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), Time of Storytellers (Helsinki, 2007), Paris Photo Biennale Photoguai – 2009. His solo exhibition were organized in Kazakhstan (Almaty, 2007) and in Italy (MIlan, 2009). Lives and works in Shimkent, Kazakhstan.
Interview with Azad Nanakeli – Padiglione Iraq – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
These are extraordinary times for Iraq. The project to create an official country Pavilion for the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia is a multiple and participatory work in progress since 2004. It is historically coming at a period of great renewal after more than 30 years of war and conflict in that country.
The Pavilion of Iraq is feature six internationally-known contemporary Iraqi artists who are emblematic in their individual experimental artistic research, a result of both living inside and outside their country. These artists, studying at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad, completed their arts studies in Europe and USA. They represent two generations: one, born in the early 1950’s, has experienced both the political instability and the cultural richness of that period in Iraq.
Ali Assaf, Azad Nanakeli and Walid Siti came of age in the 1970’s during the period of the creation of political socialism that marked their background. The second generation, to include Adel Abidin, Ahmed Alsoudani and Halim Al Karim, grew up during the drama of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), the invasion of Kuwait, overwhelming UN economic sanctions and subsequent artistic isolation.
Interview with Walid Siti – Padiglione Iraq – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
The examination of how the inanimate survive, and its shifting place and engagement with the local imagination is the ongoing subject of Walid Siti’s current installation work. Siti, who has long identified and used the mountain (as a central point of Kurdish identity) to derive his painted mediations on the intersections and formations of collective history and personal experience, here takes a tactile approach to water.
Interview with Adel Abidin – Padiglione Iraq – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Adel Abidin was born in Baghdad, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Helsinki, Finland in 2000. Having started his career as a painter, he began to work with video and completed an MF A in New Media at Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. Adding sculpture and installation to his repertoire, Abidin uses humour and irony to look at themes of cultural identity, marginalisation, nationalism, war, terror and heroism, surveying different experiences of living in a conflicted and precarious world. The works encourage us to reflect on culture, both our own and other people’s.
Interview with Melanie Smith – Padiglione Messico – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Red Square Impossible Pink is a sort of affective archaeology of modernity that allows us to understand the geo-aesthetics of modernity in contemporary societies from another perspective.
To Malevich’s Red Square, as a Suprematist formalization of utopia, Melanie Smith opposes the impossible pink as the unformed place of an historical realization of the projects of modernity. Red Square Impossible Pink spatializes a dialectical image that expresses the opposition between the possible and the impossible.
Interview with Josè Luis Barries, curator of CUADRARO ROJO, IMPOSIBLE ROSA | RED SQUARE, IMPOSIBLE PINK | QUADRATO ROSSO, IMPOSSIBILE ROSA – Padiglione Messico – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Interview with Natalia Andrianova – Central Asia n Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Natalia Andrianova. Lives and works in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 1994 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Kyrgyz National Polytechnic Institute. Works in the medium of photography. Participant of regional and international photo exhibitions. Natalia has initiated several artistic projects in connection to photography and design. Member of the editorial group of Design.kg journal.
Interview with Marat Rahiymkulov – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Marat Rahiymkulov. In 2006 he graduated from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University (Bishkek) as a physicist. Works in the format of black and white graphics and draw animation. he is one of the initiators of the non-institutional youth group “705″, which combines theatre, visual arts and social activism (2005-2009). Marat participated in the work of Brecht First Experimental Student Theatre of Avant-garde and Expressive Arts (Astana, Kazakhstan). His solo exhibition took place in 2009, in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Now he lives and works in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Interview with Galim Madanov and Zauresh Terekbay – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Galim Madanov. In 1985 he graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty of National Film Institute in Moscow and in 2004 receveid his master’s degree in philosophy and political science at the Al-Farabi Kazakth National University. Works in the media of painting, video and installations. He is the participant of more than a hundred exhibition, among which are ten solo axhibition (1992-2008) organized in Kazakhstan, France, Liechstein, Israel, and Great Britain. Often Works together in an artistic team with Zauresh Terekbay. Lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Zauresh Tarekbay. Author of installations and objects, indipendent curator. She has graduated from Almaty Teacher Institute, Faculty of Foreign Languages and script writing course of the film studio Kazakhfilm. Participant of national, regional and international exhibition. Initiated a number art and cinema projects, like the series of competitions and exhibition Art Against Poverty, Almaty, 2002. Lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Interview with Georgy Mamedov, curator of Lingua Franca/Франк тили – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
The exhibition presents the works of contemporary artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as a video-retrospective of Central Asian avant-garde. “Франка Тили – Foreign Affairs” examines lingua franca from the aspect of dominating / non-native language. Intercultural contact is established through the antithesis, We and They.
Interview with Georgy Mamedov, curator of Lingua Franca/Франк тили – Central Asia Pavilion – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
The exhibition presents the works of contemporary artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as a video-retrospective of Central Asian avant-garde. “Франка Тили – Foreign Affairs” examines lingua franca from the aspect of dominating / non-native language. Intercultural contact is established through the antithesis, We and They.
Interview with Maria Rosa Jijòn | Padiglione America Latina – IILA, 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
Ecuadorian artist and activist, working with photo, video, sound and public interventions. She did her studies in Ecuador, Cuba and Sweden.
Jijon’s work deals with the idea of being a foreigner and with human mobility in migratory contexts; hence it is based on mutual exchange and collaboration with grassroots groups and local migrant and human rights organizations. Member of Rete G2, seconde generazioni di immigranti, Italy. Has attended various workshops on social and urban interventions with Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Cittadellarte Foundation, and is presently a member of Aequatorlab collective. Jijon has also taken part in a series of filmmaking projects regarding foreign communities in Italy and Ecuador.
Interview with Sebastian Preece – Padiglione America Latina – IILA (Istituto Italo-Latino Americano), 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
Sebastian Preece excavated in the ruins of an old adobe house in Los Angeles, in southern Chile, recovering a set of books. At the moment he found them, the books were soggy, muddy, and infested by worms that were eating their pages, evidencing a process of decomposition. He removed the volumes from there, cataloged and recuperated them, allowing the tomes to dry and to enter a state of semi-fossilization. As in arcaeological ruins, in the book-stones one can catch sight of the texts on an eroded support. The main content of the book concerns parliamentary acts in regard to territorial demarcations of Chile in the 1950s through ’70s. Preece’s original architectural intervention, which sought to find the elements to generate a portrait of the family, is extended in this reflection on the historically disputed territotial borders, the lines of a national portrait.
Interview with Gianfranco Foschino , Chile | Padiglione America Latina – IILA
for 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
The video Home by Gianfranco Foschino consist of a single take by a fixed camera, which presents a rural scene. While the image is reminescent of a rustic painting lacing any sort of modernity: the soil of the land, the old wooden house, the barrels, and the chickens pecking at the ground, the image’s contemporaneity, its high definition and clear, modern grain, displaces us from a melancholic perception, situating us in today’s world. The modernist project where the city challenges the countryside is radically questioned by the artist’s work. Rural life appears just a present, clear and contemporary as the life of the big cities. Not bu chance, all of Foschino’s works consist of footage shot during his trips through Chile, and each one of them evinces how the rural peripheries or provinces are demanding the right for their own contemporary.
Intervista a Alfons Hug, curatore di ENTRE SIEMPRE Y JAMÁS (Fra Sempre e Mai), Padiglione America Latina – IILA – 54° Mostra Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia.
Alfons Hug: tra i massimi esperti di arte latinoamericana, già curatore della Bienal de São Paulo (2002 e 2004) e della Bienal del Fin del Mundo di Ushuaia (2009), attuale direttore del Goethe-Institut di Río de Janeiro, partner istituzionale di questa mostra.
Intervista a Paz Guevara, co- curatore di ENTRE SIEMPRE Y JAMÁS (Fra Sempre e Mai) Padiglione America Latina – IILA (Istituto Italo-Latino Americano) 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – la Biennale di Venezia.
Gli artisti invitati hanno esplorato l’America Latina in lungo e in largo; hanno visitato megalopoli e città piccole nell’entroterra dei vari Paesi, luoghi legati fortemente al passato e metropoli moderne che hanno cancellato le ultime vestigia della storia. Le opere proposte raccontano le decisive trasformazioni in ambito politico, sociale e culturale vissute dagli Stati americani contemporanei.
Intervista con Patricia Rivadeneira, Commissario Padiglione America Latina – IILA (Istituto Italo-Latino Americano)
L’IILA (Istituto Italo-Latino Americano), dal 1972 invitato dalla Biennale di Venezia, organizza il proprio Padiglione dedicato all’America Latina. Per la 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte l’IILA presenta ENTRE SIEMPRE Y JAMÁS (Fra Sempre e Mai), una mostra che propone per la prima volta un progetto sulla cultura dell’intera America Latina, attraverso lo sguardo di artisti provenienti da tutto il Continente. Per questa edizione de La Biennale di Venezia, l’Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, accanto al commissario Patricia Rivadeneira, Segretario Culturale dell’IILA, ha scelto di invitare come curatore del Padiglione Alfons Hug.
Interview with Fernando Castro Flórez, curator of Grand Sur, Fernando Prats’ work related to Chile and its territory, its geography and telluric conditions, The “Gran Sur” project invites to reflect upon the role of geography in the identity of this country.
Gran Sur (Great South), 2011
Antarctic Base Arturo Prat, Greenwich Island Neon, wood structure, cable, alluminium, power generator.
"Man wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success."
Fernando Prats' Gran Sur project was inspired by Ernest Shackleton's newspaper advert soliciting recruits for his fateful Antarctic expedition. Through a compendium of photographs and archival materials, Prats' installation, recorded in this volume, draws out the implications of the blackly humorous advert to resonate with larger experiences of migration and dangerous travel.
© Photo: Fernando Prats
On My 10th, The Academy of Romania in Rome and the Istituto di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica of Venice presented a preview of the two national projects for Biennale di Venezia 2011.
Performing History - Exhibition of artists Ion Grigorescu, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova At the Pavillon dedicated to Romania in the Giardini di Castello.
Participants
Maria Rus Bojan, curator and coordinator of the project
Bogdan Ghiu, writer and philosopher, author of the catalog for the exhibition.
Romanian Cultural Resolution - documentary
Nuova Galleria dell'Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia.
Participants
Adrian Bojenoiu and Alexandru Niculescu, curators of the project.
Paolo Mozzo, Ass. Commissario al Padiglione della Repubblica Araba Siriana e Giancarlo Rovetta, responsabile Archivio Opere Bernard Aubertin presentano i progetti di Bernard Aubertin, Beppe Bonetti e Salvo Pastorello per la 54° Biennale di Venezia al Padiglione della Repubblica Araba Siriana.
Bernard Aubertin, Beppe Bonetti e Salvo Pastorello
SIRIA, Repubblica Araba Siriana
Evoluzione
Talal al Abballa, Sabhan Adam, Bernard Aubertin, Nemat Badawi, Beppe Bonetti, Ivan Lardschneider, Renato Mambor, Piero Mottola, Salvo Pastorello, Nizar Sabour, Rima Salamoun, Pg-Slis
Commissario: Christian Maretti. Curatori: Fabio Anselmi, Sandro Orlandi. Sede: Isola di San Servolo, Caserma Cornoldi