Venice - Invisible Pavilion

The Invisible Pavilion | 54th International Art Exhibition | Venice Biennale

- Opening to the public: 4 June > 27 November 2011
Venice, Giardini and all over the world on the Internet

Curated by Simona Lodi and Les Liens Invisibles

The art, my friend, is flowing in the wind.

The Invisible Pavilion is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks will fill the whole area of the Giardini. The main purpose of the project is to fill the augmented space of the Biennale with a stream of signs and symbols, in an attempt to emphasize the ebb and flow of art production in the “always-on” age.

Anyone with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone and Layar) will be able to move around the traditional pavilions in the Giardini area of the Biennale and see, through their phone screens, another immaterial/invisible exhibition.

For the entire length of the Venice Art Biennale (June–November 2011) a group of selected international artists have been invited to give their personal contribution to the project, by performing/posting multimedia pieces that should somehow reinterpret the public space of the Biennale and its symbolic aura in the field of contemporary art. The artworks will also be visible on the Internet, on the Invisible Pavilion website.

As Simona Lodi says in the curatorial text, “The Invisible Pavilion is a hallucinatory experience of rewriting the world, an encouragement to increase the whirl and flow of information on invisible r/Reality. The Invisible Pavilion contains a r/Reality that is open and spontaneous, drawn and analysed from shared data. The double r reflects its double connotation—the lower case r refers to the everyday reality that we all know; the upper case R to a proprietary name, the augmented Reality that is produced.“

Participating Artists

• Artie Vierkant
• Costant Dullaart
• CONT3XT.NET
• IOCOSE
• Jon Rafman
• Les Liens Invisibles
• Molleindustria
• Parker Ito
• REFF - RomaEuropa FakeFactory

Links and References

www.theinvisiblepavilion.com

Download Hi-res pictures
http://goo.gl/am34H

In cooperation with Manifest.AR International Cyberartist Group

BIO

Simona Lodi, art critic and curator, lives in Turin. Since 1993 she has been a contributor to various leading contemporary art journals. Simona's professional career spans New York, London and Turin—a city that has embraced the world of new technology and communication. It is in this context that the Share Festival–Art in the Digital Age, of which Simona is founder and Art Director, has found fertile ground to grow and develop.

Les Liens Invisibles is an Italian-based duo of internet artists, Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Most of their artworks—which include an online viral mass suicide performance, an hallucinatory petition service and a series of other works staged on popular social media platforms—have been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums (MAXXI Rome, New School of New York, KUMU Art Museum of Talinn) and international media art festivals (SHARE, Transmediale). Les Liens Invisibles recently received an honorary distinction at the Transmediale Media Art Festival (2011).

Les Liens Invisibles
www.lesliensinvisibles.org

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I would normally post about new media arts on Blakkbyrd but as this is at Venice, its included here. (ed)

Venice - Vernissage

Preview and Press Conference



Vernice e conferenza Stampa alla 54 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia Intervento del Presidete Paolo Baratta, il Direttore Bice Curiger e il Ministro della Cultura Giancarlo Galan. Nel video vengono mostrate alcune Opere del Padilione Italia durante la Vernice del 1 giugno 2011. Video di Leonardo Orlandi - CINIT Cineforum Italiano. Source

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From Vernissage TV

http://www.vernissage.tv | First impressions of the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. This year, the exhibition's curator is Bice Curiger, the title of the show is Illuminations. The Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important art events.

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On the second day of the Venice Biennale Preview, we had a look at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini

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Venice - Germany

Interview with the commissioner of German Pavilion, Susanne Gaensheimer, Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 54th International Art Exhibition

German Pavilion website
http://www.deutscher-pavillon.org/en

Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, Commissioner of the German Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011 and Director of MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, has announced that the work of Christoph Schlingensief will be presented in Venice despite his untimely death.

“When inviting Christoph Schlingensief in May of this year I explained that my basic idea was to approach an artist of my generation, who has worked for a significant time (which in the case of Christoph Schlingensief was almost 30 years) and in a significant way, someone who not only witnessed the artistic, social and political issues of the two decades of post-reunification Germany, but also took an active role in defining them. Christoph Schlingensief was one of the most important artists in this country, one who never shied away from voicing his opinion and maintaining his position, wholeheartedly, even towards himself, with the utmost clarity and directness, such as is necessary if you want to comment on conditions effectively. Christoph Schlingensief’s tragic death has in no way affected my conviction that the decision to invite him was the right one,” Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer concludes.

From the early 1980s onwards, Christoph Schlingensief explored a variety of different media in his work. He made films, was involved in political action, theater, art projects, and opera. Even though he originally decidedly left behind the legacy of what was known as Neue Deutsche Film (new German film), on many levels we can compare his work to that of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In particularly, this is true as regards team work, an approach that, though common in the world of film and theater, still tends to be the exception in the visual arts, and yet influenced his work for decades. The fact that Schlingensief immersed himself in such a variety of different media and genres makes it impossible to pigeonhole him. Indeed, a key aspect of his work consists of transgressing and dissolving genre-specific boundary lines and the alleged clarity of form and content. Schlingensief’s oeuvre is extremely complex and it is in the nature of his work that it finds itself in a permanent state of self-exploration and change. Schlingensief used language as the fundamental starting point for his work, across the board. As there are no translations, subtitles or English versions of his work, the German Pavilion will not only to present Schlingensief’s work, but will also make it accessible to an international audience.

Christoph Schlingensief had a multitude of ideas and thoughts during the intense collaborative effort committed to his project for the German Pavilion, and some of those ideas were already very detailed. Nonetheless, Susanne Gaensheimer had decided not to use them: “It is impossible to realize a Christoph Schlingensief project without Christoph Schlingensief. Almost a year before the Biennial was due to open a number of questions were of course not yet answered, and anyone who ever experienced Schlingensief’s way of working will tell you that up until opening day there would have been countless changes. No one will ever be able to replace him, and without him it will be impossible to see his ideas through to the end. That said, we will document his plans and ideas using a variety of different media.”

Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice

The PinchukArtCentre and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation are proud to present the exhibition “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice”, featuring 19 artists from 18 different countries who were shortlisted in the first global art prize competition.

The project — an official Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia — will be on view at the Palazzo Papadopoli from 4 June till 7 August, 2011. The hours are 10:00 – 18:00 daily (closed on Mondays).

The exhibition showcases 19 independent artists’ statements, including the winners, Cinthia Marcelle (Main Prize), Nicolae Mircea (Special Prize) and Artem Volokytin, the first winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2009.

This complex and dynamic view of a new generation of artists will be a major contribution to the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, “ILLUMInations,” whose title literally draws attention to the importance of global artistic developments. 

With its strength and innovative profile, “The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice” embodies this forward thinking. Of the groups of works to be shown, 13 were made especially for the Future Generation Art Prize, and 7 will be given their premieres in Venice.

The artists in the exhibition are: Ziad Antar, Lebanon; Fikret Atay, Turkey; Cao Fei, China; Keren Cytter, Israel; Nathalie Djurberg, Sweden; Nicholas Hlobo, South Africa; Clemens Hollerer, Austria; Runo Lagomarsino, Sweden; Cinthia Marcelle, Brazil; Mircea Nicolae, Romania; Ruben Ochoa, United States; Wilfredo Prieto, Cuba; Katerina Seda, Czech Republic; Guido van der Werve, Netherlands; Nico Vascellari, Italy, Jorinde Voigt, Germany; Artem Volokytin, Ukraine; Emily Wardill, United Kingdom; Hector Zamora, Mexico.

http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/photo_and_video/photo

Ziad Antar
Fikret Atay
Cao Fei
Keren Cytter
Nathalie Djurberg
Nicholas Hlobo
Clemens Hollerer

Runo Lagomarsino
Cinthia Marcelle
Nicolae Mircea
Ruben Ochoa
Wilfredo Prieto
Kateřina Šedá

Guido van der Werve
Nico Vascellari
Jorinde Voigt
Artem Volokytin
Emily Wardill
Hector Zamora

 

http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/ 

 

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review artinfo

 

The balance between excess and economy is carried off slightly more elegantly 10 minutes east, at an exhibition for the 19 artists on the shortlist for Ukranian billionaire Victor Pinchuk's $100,000 Future Generation Artist Prize. The award, now in its third year, is open to any artist under 35 who applies online. 

 

The prize's star-studded board and jury-including Jeff Koons, Robert Storr, and Glenn Lowry (who explained his role as board member to ARTINFO as that of "comforter") lent it instant art-world cachet when it emerged three years ago. Last year's contest drew over 6,000 applications from 125 countries. 

 

Now for the first time, 2010's winner, Brazilian video artist and photographer Cinthia Marcelle, is exhibiting her winning films at the Biennale alongside 2009 winner Artem Volokytin and the other finalists, seven of whom made site-specific work — on relatively little notice, according to a few artists — for the event.  

Venice - Aidan Salakhova

La Biennale di Venezia

AIDAN SALAKHOVA.

Palazzo Benzon, Venice

Azerbaijan National Pavilion

http://azpavilion.org/

Over the past 20 years Aidan Salakhova has been one of the leading international artists to emerge from Russia and the former Soviet space. ``Destination'' is her first time working with sculpture. This project consists of items made from marble that were mined in Carrara and Belgium, and some of which weigh more than one tonne. “Destination” is partly based on an earlier series of graphic works titled, “Persian Miniatures”, through which Ms Salakhova investigates male and female themes in the context of Islam.

Ms Salakhova's works will be at the Azerbaijan national pavilion. She will be one of six artists who experienced the political, economic, and cultural transformations in the post-Soviet space over the last three decades, and who have incessantly and critically responded to global challenges through their work. These artists represent Azerbaijan and have their cultural roots in the country, but their work is extremely intricate and complex to be limited under a single national identity.

biography

http://azpavilion.org/?page=artists&view=6

website

http://www.aidans.ru/

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Two large-scale sculptural works by Moscow-based artist Aidan Salakhova, on show at the entrance of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion, were yesterday hidden from view under drapes following protests from the Azerbaijan president. ... Ilham Aliyev took offence at the pieces because of their references to Islam. One work, Waiting Bride, 2010-11, which shows a woman covered in a black veil from head to foot, was deemed as promoting an unacceptably strict form of Islam.

The other sculpture, which depicts the Muslim relic, the Black Stone of Mecca, contained in a vagina-like marble frame, was considered insensitive to the religion. The works will remain under wraps for a week.

From the Art Newspaper

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The sculptures were damaged. They will be shown right after being repaired. From Aydan Salakhova's facebook-page.

  

Venice - ILLUMInations

An interview with Bice Curiger, the Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition "ILLUMInations", Venice Biennale 2011

Introduction
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/curiger/


Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of international exhibitions. Her curatorial activity at Kunsthaus Zurich parallels her important work in the publishing sector. In 1984, she cofounded the prestigious art magazine “Parkett”, of which she is editor-in-chief. She has been publishing director of London Tate Gallery’s magazine “Tate etc” since 2004.

The exhibition ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations will be laid out in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, featuring 83 artists from all over the world, including 32 young artists born after 1975, as well as 32 women artists. The director asked four participating artists to create “parapavilions”, architectural and sculptural structures erected in the Giardini and the Arsenale to house the works of other artists.

As usual, the Exhibition will be paralleled by 89 National Participations, a record for the Art Biennale (they were 77 in 2009), housed in the historical Pavilions in the Giardini, in the Arsenale, as well as in other locations around the city. The Padiglione Italia in the Arsenale, organized by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities together with PaBAAC – General Direction for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary art, will be curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. The countries that will be participating for the first time will be Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Haiti. Other countries will be participating after a long period of absence: India (1982), Congo (1968), Iraq (1990), Zimbabwe (1990), South Africa (1995), Costa Rica (1993, afterwards with IILA), Cuba (1995, afterwards with IILA). There will be 37 Collateral Events arranged by international organizations and institutions, that will set up their exhibitions and initiatives in various locations around the city on the occasion of the Biennale.

“La Biennale di Venezia is one of the world’s most important forums for the dissemination and illumination of current developments in international art – Bice Curiger stated. The title of the 54th International Art Exhibition, ILLUMInations, literally draws attention to the importance of such endeavours in a globalized world. As the biggest and oldest Biennale, la Biennale di Venezia has always been buoyed by an international spirit, and even more so now in an age in which artists themselves have become multifaceted, discerning migrants and cultural tourists”.

“ILLUMInations emphasizes the intuitive insight and the illumination of thought that is fostered by an encounter with art and its ability to sharpen the tools of perception – the director underlined. While the last Biennale ‘Making Worlds’ highlighted constructive creativity, ILLUMInations will focus on the ¢light’ of the illuminating experience, on the epiphanies that come with intercommunicative, intellectual comprehension. The Age of Enlightenment also resonates in ILLUMInations, testifying to the enduring vibrancy of its legacy”.

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On the occasion of the 54th Exhibition, three online competitions will be launched through the website www.labiennalechannel.org:
· ILLUMInations – Photography: the best photograph of the Exhibition (competition open only to accredited photographers)
· ILLUMInations – Essay: the best critical essay on the Exhibition
· ILLUMInations – Video clip: the best video about the Exhibition

Venice - Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of SAudi Arabia participates in the Venice Biennale 2011 with the exhibition, "The Black Arch"

The Black Arch has been created through a profound collaboration between Shadia and Raja Alem. It is very much about a meeting point of the two artists; of two visions of the world; from darkness to light, and of two cities – Mecca and Venice. The work is a stage, set to project the artists’ collective memory of Black - the monumental absence of colour - and physical representation of Black, referring to their past. The narrative is fueled by the inspirational tales told by their aunts and grandmothers, and are anchored in Mecca, where the sisters grew up in the 1970s.

From a Press release 

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2011/info/saudi_arabia

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The Saudi project is less overtly political in content. Saudi Arabia, joining the Biennale for the first time, is to be represented by an installation titled “The Black Arch.” It is the work of two women, Raja Alem, a writer, and her sister, Shadia Alem, a visual artist. The work, the artists say, is an attempt to bring together their city, Mecca, and Venice through an abstract sculpture onto which the artists will project images and sounds of the two cities.
“This participation in the Biennale is revolutionary,” Shadia Alem said in an e-mail. “I hope this peaceful revolution continues.”


full article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/world/europe/26iht-M26C-VENICE.html

Tabiamo - Japan

Interview  2006
http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2006/07/interview_with_tabaimo.html

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Biography on Philographica

http://www.philagrafika2010.org/artist/-tabaimo

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Tabaimo’s work examines the unseen, darker side of contemporary experience, exploring what lies beneath the seeming orderliness of the everyday world, and this piece was no exception. And she draws on all kinds of sources, from the aesthetics of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts, to the sometimes-absurd narratives of Japanese comics and animations, manga, and anime.

on Moma

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/07/22/the-strange-and-wonderful-world-of-tabaimo

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The Japan Foundation revealed on June 5 that the media artist Tabaimo will represent Japan at next year's 54th Venice Biennale. Known for hand-drawn animations that update the imagery of ukiyo-e wood-block prints to explore themes related to contemporary Japanese society, Tabaimo was selected for the 2011 Japan Pavilion by commissioner Yuka Uematsu, a curator at the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

Uematsu told ART iT that the working theme for the pavilion is "Trans-Galapagos Syndrome," and that Tabaimo plans to make works that will reflect global perspectives on contemporary art while preserving the unique characteristics of Japanese culture. More details about the pavilion and the selection process are forthcoming.

On July 10 the National Museum of Art opens an exhibition of works by Tabaimo, "Danmen," which originated at the Yokohama Museum of Art in late 2009. "Danmen" is the artist's first solo show in seven years in the Kansai region, where she studied at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Tabaimo previously exhibited at Venice in 2007, when she was included in the centerpiece exhibition curated by artistic director Robert Storr, "Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense."

http://www.art-it.asia/u/admin_ed_news_e/7PS6EZxyTQwCjfekOpzI

Fiona Tan

website
http://www.fionatan.nl/

images
http://www.fionatanvenice.nl/pub/26/images/

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at vernissage tv: For some reason I can't get the embed codes to work. Go directly to VTV's blog entry to see the videos here
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Amsterdam-based film and video artist Fiona Tan represents the Netherlands at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Fiona Tan was born in Indonesia and grew up in Australia. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to pursue studies at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie. Her work has been exhibited widely in numerous international exhibitions and institutions including Documenta 11 (Kassel), Yokohama Triennale (Japan), and the New Museum (New York). Fiona Tan lives and works in Amsterdam, where she teaches at De Ateliers.

In Venice, she presents three video installations: Disorient (2009), a new video installation that draws on the city’s medieval influence before the discovery of new routes to Asia diminished its power; Provenance (2008), a research on 17th-century, “Golden Age” portrait paintings; and Rise and Fall (2009), a video installation that focuses on images of water — turbulent, churning as well as slow-moving and placid — as a metaphor for how memory is formed. Excerpts of the videos are available on the Dutch Pavilion website.

Fiona Tan: Disorient. Dutch Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009.

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

http://www.claireandsean.com/







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Meet the COFA graduates taking a slice of Australia to the sinking city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywC-SPJ5xrU


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http://www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org/claire%20and%20sean.htm

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"Disruptive Colourations," a collaborative exhibition at Barry Keldoulis Gallery, Sydney
http://www.newarttv.com/index.php?id=300

Vernon Ah Kee

Vernon Ah Kee, Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia artist, discusses his work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3sLTmHCNs

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Brisbane indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee has been selected as one of four Australian artists to exhibit at the Venice Bienalle in June 2009. This documentary will follow Vernon as he prepares and travels to Venice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9jcqjeclg

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2008 Biennale of Sydney artist Vernon Ah Kee discusses his work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUCX99KCpe4

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Brisbane indigenous artist, Vernon Ah Kee was represented at GoMA's contemporary Australian artwork show called Optimism between November 15 2009 and February 22 2009. The work showcased Ah Kee's work of vinyl text prints on a wall which scale almost 30 metres tall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebai1YhIijc

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Australia's 2009 Venice entry reviewed at Circa Art Magazine
http://www.recirca.com/cgi-bin/mysql/show_item.cgi?post_id=4813&type=reviews

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CV
http://www.australiavenicebiennale.com.au/vernon-ah-kee-cv

Download booklet

Venice 2009 - Overview

Venice Biennale 2009 53rd International Art Exhibition

7 June -22 November 2009

Vernissage:4, 5 and 6 June 2009

Artistic director:Daniel Birnbaum

http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009
http://universes-in-universe.de/english.htm

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take the tour
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009/tour

central exhibition
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009/tour/making_worlds

Venice - Curator interview

Tim Griffin talks with curator Daniel Birnbaum about the 53rd Venice Biennale

http://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=200905&id=22616

Venice Biennale 2009 - Australia

Australia's official representation for the Venice Biennale 2009 will include artist Shaun Gladwell who will present his work MADDESTMAXIMVS at the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.

MADDESTMAXIMVS is a compelling suite of five thematically interrelated videos with sculptural and photographic elements, influenced by outback Australian landscapes and the iconic Mad Max movies.

Gladwell's exciting works blend contemporary urban culture and personal history through video, painting, sculpture and performance. He was one of three Australian artists selected to participate in the Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2007.

Shaun Gladwell on Bellebyrd
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2008/06/sean-gladwell.html


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Sydney-based curator Felicity Fenner will curate a group exhibition of early career artists. The exhibition entitled Once Removed, will present artists - Vernon Ah Kee, Ken Yonetani, and Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro - through a series of installations unified by themes of displacement, Indigenous and environmental issues.

Click here to download the essay on Once Removed by the curator.

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Once Removed is an exhibition of three installations that refer to aspects of place and the predicament of displacement. Interpreting facets of Australia’s environment and culture, as well as of the former convent in which the exhibition is situated, the works reveal differing approaches to place and displacement by young Australian artists of diverse ethnic backgrounds.

As an emigrant, immigrant or an Indigenous person, each of the artists here has experienced cultural displacement. Sean Cordeiro’s family is from Singapore; he and Claire Healy lead a globally itinerant life, currently working between Sydney and Berlin and their work draws on this experience of constant transit between cultures. Ken Yonetani immigrated to Australia from Japan just six years ago and his reflections on environmental devastation present cultural parallels between Australia and his native Japan, and, in the current context, Venice; while Vernon Ah Kee has experienced the worst aspects of displacement – racism and ostracism – as an Aboriginal Australian with Chinese ancestry living in the conspicuously Anglo- Celtic city of Brisbane. The insight provided by the artists’ experience of otherness underpins the pungent narratives of these diverse installations.

At the forefront of this awakening to Indigenous and non-Western art is the work of Vernon Ah Kee and Ken Yonetani. Though rising above the specifics of place in terms of its political narrative, their practice draws from and comments on their respective Aboriginal and Asian heritages.

Ah Kee’s installation for the Venice Biennale, Cant Chant (Wegrewhere) presents the beach as a contested site, reflecting the fact that beach culture alienates people of non-Anglo backgrounds (Asian, Middle Eastern and Indigenous populations, for example), something brought to the fore with the Cronulla riots on one of Sydney’s most popular surf beaches a couple years ago. Visual imagery framed within the three- channel video and accompanying installation of suspended surfboards also suggests iconic racist events from history, such as lynchings in North America and Australia, where blacks were ritually murdered by public hanging. Locally, the work’s title and theme refers to Thomas Keneally’s 1972 Booker Prize-nominated novel, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, in which the white author, controversially, told the story through the eyes of the Aboriginal protagonist of him taking violent revenge against racial persecution in the Australian outback.

Yonetani’s
carefully staged white sugar sculptures are rendered in a language that seeks to codify the damage caused by human disengagement from the natural world. The aesthetic framework for his practice is drawn from Asian culture, particularly cultural traditions that make a spectacle of ordering nature, such as the Japanese Zen garden. The particular type of garden cited in Sweet Barrier Reef is called Kare san sui, which dates back to the 15 th century.

The site-responsive installation by Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro in the Ludoteca’s church embraces the dreams, fears and desires of its ecclesial setting. Collectively, the content of their VHS monolith ruminates on the human condition, the meaning of life and mortality. However, unlike site- specific works that aim to reveal aspects of the place in which they’re located – often hailed in the biennale context as a form of cultural tourism – Healy & Cordeiro’s work offers a contemporary reflection on timeless human concerns rather than on the significance of place, referring to film as a vehicle for self- reflection and the stack of obsolete media as a metaphor for society’s contrived packaging of emotions and the ultimate transience of life. There are 195,774 videos in this stack, their combined viewing ti me equal to the average (global) human life span of 61.1 years.

Life Span, the neatly ordered stack of VHS tapes created for Once Removed, is positioned in response to the distinctive art and architecture of its setting. Disproportionately commandeering the small church of the Ludoteca, Life Span proposes the substitution of religious doctrines for movie-watching as a path to spiritual fulfilment. The juxtaposition between popular videos and their
church setting serves to heighten the significance both of the work and the church, the stack of obsolete media an apt metaphor not only for society’s contrived packaging of experience and emotion, but for the ephemeral nature of life itself.

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http://www.australiavenicebiennale.com.au/

Sean Gladwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtw4FK3W38

Storm Sequence






"A idéia de escultura funcional foi um jogo com as práticas urbanas e o modo como elas expandem a função do espaço público e da arquitetura civil". Shaun Gladwell em entrevista para o guia da 27ª. Bienal de São Paulo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJwBrNOSUGk





Trailer zur derzeitigen Ausstellung im OK Offenen Kulturzentrum OÖ!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bysmI1MJWA

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On Bellebyrd June 2007

http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2007/06/shaun-gladwell.html


On Blakkbyrd June 2007

http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/06/shaun-gladwell-hague.html

http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/06/hague-sculpture-2007.html


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Shaun Gladwell
http://shaungladwell.joshraymond.com/

Daniel von Sturmer

Daniel von Sturmer represents Australia at the 52nd International Art Exhibition, the Biennale di Venezia 2007.

Daniel von Sturmer was born 1972 in Auckland, New Zealand, he lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

The work he presents at the Australian Pavilion is very aesthetic and elegant. Or as the press release puts it: “With The Object of Things, von Sturmer continues his ‘experiments with space’, he has constructed video installations and architectural interventions especially designed for the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini. These new works aim to test how it is we see what we see, bringing the unique spaces of the Pavilion into play. Video sequences confound viewers’ sense of space, scale and orientation through experiments with gravity and weightlessness, movement and stillness.” 52nd International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia 2007, June 9, 2007.
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> Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.
> Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

http://vernissage.tv

Venice Biennial - Photos

UNIVERSES IN UNIVERSE - Worlds of Art
Visual arts of Africa, Asia, Latin America
within the context of international art processes

our extensive photo tour through the 52nd International Art Exhibition of
the Venice Biennial is ready now. You will find in it, photos and
information on 24 pavilions and exhibitions with works by 114
participants.


*Venice Biennial - Photo Tour*
You can directly go to particular exhibitions or follow the alphabetical
tour (Start top right):
http://universes-in-universe.de/car/venezia/eng/2007/tour/index.htm

discussion

Three major contemporary art exhibitions are taking place this summer - Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale and Sculpture Projects in Munster. Hopes that these exhibitions would present a representative overview of contemporary art have not been fulfilled, however, as a glance in European newspaper shows. The question of what constitutes "good" art remains controversial.

http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin

Commenting on the Documenta 12 in Kassel, Richard Dorment, art critic for the British Daily Telegraph, called it "the single worst art exhibition I have ever seen anywhere, ever." Meanwhile his German colleague Thomas Wagner gave the same exhibition an enthusiastic review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 16 June 2007, saying "Documenta is making art accessible again."




A visitor contemplates "Love Songs: Multi-Story House” by Mary Kelly.



a Chinese woman applies makeup in her bedroom as part of the installation "Fairytale” at

selection of reviews

Here you will find information and a selection of reviews of the three major exhibitions taking place in summer 2007 and of the Art Basel art fair. Also included are a number of viewpoints and analyses of contemporary art.

The Venice Biennale

The homepage of the exhibition in Venice
» Biennale (English/Italian)

Review by Sarah Donaldson
» Observer (English)

Review by Adrian Searle
» Guardian (English)

Review by Vincent Noce
» Libération (French)

Review by Peter Richter
» Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (German)


Documenta

Homepage of the exhibition in Kassel
» documenta 12 (German, English)

The Kassel Academy of Art's blog on Documenta
» documenta12blog (German)

Review by Adrian Searle
» Guardian (English)

Review by Richard Dorment
» Daily Telegraph (English)

Review by Emanuelle Lequeux
» Le monde (French)

Review by Guy Duplat
» La Libre Belgique (French)

Review by Claudia Spinelli
» Weltwoche (German)

Review by Holger Liebs
» Süddeutsche Zeitung (German)

Review by Thomas Wagner
» Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German)


Sculpture Projects

Homepage of the exhibition in Münster
» Skulptur Projekte (German/English)

Review by Markus Mittringer
» Der Standard (German)

Review by Nikola Kuhn
» Der Tagesspiegel (German)

Review by Philippe Mathonnet
» Le Temps (French)


The Art Basel art fair

Virtual Art Basel
» artnet (German)

Report by Rose-Maria Gropp
» Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German)

Report by Valérie Duponchelle
» Le Figaro (French)

Report by Judith Benhamou-Huet
» Les Echos (French)


Viewpoints on the influence of the art market

Daniel Binswanger on the power of the art market
» Das Magazin (Tagesanzeiger) (German)

Niklas Maak on the art frenzy
» Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (German)

Daniel Birnbaum writes that art's future is where the money is
» Texte zur Kunst (German/ English)

Hanno Rauterberg on the booming art market
» Die Zeit (German)

Charlotte Higgins on the booming art market as a problem for museums
» Guardian (English)


Viewpoints on contemporary art in general

Hanno Rauterberg on political art at the Venice Biennial and Documenta
» Die Zeit (German)
» signandsight.com (English)

Barbara Basting on contemporary art
» Tagesanzeiger (German)

Venice Biennale 2007

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