Cino Zucchi, Archimbuto - "Innesti-Grafting", Italian Pavilion, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014
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Jonathas de Andrade, Com o coração saindo pela boca (With the heart coming out of the mouth), Brazilian Pavilion, 59th Venice Art Biennale, 2022
't Is weer tijd voor …… een ReisKunst-Verhaal: De Inspiratie door La Serenissima
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‘t Is weer tijd voor…. Dat is een van die bekende kreten van Arjen Lubach in zijn ‘De Avondshow’. Dan weet je dat er weer een of andere rubriek aankomt waarin hij een maatschappelijk probleem humoristisch en vilein tot op de bodem fileert. Niet dat ik dit nu ook ga doen. Maar het was toch al een poos geleden, vorig jaar oktober, dat ik hier in TOOS&ART met een ReisKunst-Verhaal kwam aanzetten.…
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't Is weer tijd voor …… een ReisKunst-Verhaal: La Serenissima
Venetië, een van mijn muzen, met altijd ook weer Biënnale-avonturen. Altijd ook goed voor kleurrijke inspiratie en m'n traditionele Campari-Spritz bij Bar La Palanca op Giudecca. En altijd goed voor een ReisKunst-Verhaal. #BiennaleVenezia#art#kunst#expo
‘t Is weer tijd voor…. Dat is een van die bekende kreten van Arjen Lubach in zijn ‘De Avondshow’. Dan weet je dat er weer een of andere rubriek aankomt waarin hij een maatschappelijk probleem humoristisch en vilein tot op de bodem fileert. Niet dat ik dit nu ook ga doen. Maar het was toch al een poos geleden, vorig jaar oktober, dat ik hier in TOOS&ART met een ReisKunst-Verhaal kwam aanzetten.…
Guide to sonic works in the 57th edition of this international art exhibition. Titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, chief curator of Paris's Centre Pompidou, La Biennale di Venezia is open from May-November 2017.
Couldn't help but put a few other non sound things in here too…
This years Golden Lion winner is the German pavilion - artist Anne Imhof has choreographed an epic performance, between five and seven hours in length and ever changing, where you walk on a glass floor with millennials trapped underneath. During my visit they threw themselves against the floor, dejectedly hosed down the glass separating us from the performers, one escaped and climbed the imposing fence outside… An extremely bleak view.
The French pavilion for the Venice Biennale has been transformed by Xavier Veilhan and the pavilion’s curators, Christian Marclay and Lionel Bovier, into a musical space in which professional musicians from all over the world work throughout the duration of the exhibition. The producer shuffled around inside the fishbowl studio whilst I was there - not much sound coming out and it all felt a bit insanely privileged - massive money music studio being a far cry from what most of us work with, and who knows where the results of what the musicians have created will go.
Lots of cool things in the Korean pavilion. My fav was a small room full of clocks, all set at different speeds. Voices that seem to come from behind the clocks tell you how long it takes each person, name and profession inscribed on the clock, to earn a meal.
Not entirely sure what was happening in the Russian pavilion - dark, light, space, projections, subterranean lair with an app that makes naked figures appear… Lable says 'Baudrillard's silent majority, intimidated by power and terrorists'. I can hear eerie voices and mechanical hiss.
Radical act in the Canadian pavilion - most of roof gone and water spurting everywhere. Got wet listening to lovely sounds of water chiming and enjoyed watching visitors hop around to avoid new streams.
In the Greek pavilion - how much of this is real? I'll never know. Strange videos of scientists with ethics under question. Guided round a maze by eerie recorded voices. Either I'm a genius or it wasn't a real maze though as walked straight through it, no wrong turns.
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Drumming the water - reviving the tradition with locals of the Atrato river, a work by Marcos Avila Forero. Really nice thoughtful film, about how we lose our traditions and history through globalisation. Showed a seemly futile struggle as locals attempt to revive tradition of drumming with water with varying degrees of managing to keep in time between bursts of annoyance and disheartenment. Nice community spirit came through.
Moves like an insect, slowly creeping across the wall. A music box plays the wallpaper, transforming visual motifs into sounds. A work by a Anri Sala.
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Audio cassettes made for women by religious leaders, to tell them how they should act. Visually impactful - the array of tapes is fitted to the wall on bread dishes to spell out poignant words in Arabic - 'temptation', 'forbidden', 'struggle'. Saudi artist Maha Malluh says that she doesn't create new objects, believing that the world has already produced enough, many of which are discarded.
The city plays itself. No humans required as Nevin Aladag leaves instruments to create sound by themselves. Artist dealing with re-appropriation of public space and sound creation, setting the city up to become the voice of it's absent inhabitants.
Always interested in broken pianos and all they symbolise… Small man with axe destroys piano amongst other things in Liliana Porter's work.
Enjoyed this activist performance work - shouting messages across the city about public vs private space, home, and freedom to wander. Pavilion transformed into a moving stage. In defence of nomadism - collective actions in the Spanish pavilion.
In town
Murmuri - a work by Eva Ariza in the Andorra pavillion.
Investigating the boom of the 'charity single' as a symbol of globalisation of pop music and rise of 'neo liberalist aspirations'.' Songs for Disaster Relief sound lounge by Samson Young in the Hong Kong pavilion.
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Five artists collaborate through image, film, sculpture and sound to question the future of Mongolia.
Deeply moving work - my favourite of the Biennale. Artist subjects himself to limits of endurance through 'one year performances'. In the first, he clocks on to a worker's time clock every hour, day and night, for one year. In the second, he takes no shelter - spending a year outdoors. Heartbreaking film accompanying the relics of these performances showing his treatment whilst sleeping outdoors, including as police force him indoors whilst under arrest. I shed a tear.