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      19 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Iceland

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      link: Icelandic Art Center Comissioner: Dorothée Kirch Curator: Ellen Blumenstein Artists: Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson

      txt: Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson represent Iceland at Venice Biennale 2011

       

      The Spanish-Icelandic artist duo Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson have been chosen to exhibit on Iceland’s behalf at the 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2011. Their work is characterised by their at once attentive and critical, analytical and emotional gaze and their interest in identifying the many questions that the present raises. The trans-cultural tendency in today’s world and the complex relationships that spring from it is one of the artist’s main concerns, exploring relationships among art, everyday life, politics and transculturality. Castro, born in Madrid, and Ólafsson, born in Reykjavík – based in Rotterdam and Berlin and aptly referred to as “citizens of the world” – met in the Netherlands in 1997 and have been collaborating since.

       

      video: Libia and Olafur sample - SalvageFreedom on youtube.com

       

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      18 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Germany

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      links: www.deutscher-pavillon.org MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main  

      Curator: Susanne Gaensheimer Artist: Christoph Schlingensief  

      txt: the German Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011

       

      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. [...] In early May 2010, Christoph Schlingensief himself commented on his invitation to the Venice Biennial in the following words: “I have worked in many different fields, as a director in film, theater and opera, producer, solo entertainer, human being, also as a sick human being and Christian, and equally so as a politician and performer, and I have always taken an interest in those artists who felt almost compelled to practice their art, and in so doing did not necessarily separate their compulsion from that of having or wanting to live. A kind of schizophrenia has always been typical of my work and my life. If I limited myself to one thing only I would simply get bored, my mind would be starved of inspiration. Between music and image, people and language, the healthy and the infirm, the funny and the sad I always need to be given the chance to state the opposite too. To my mind, everything in the world is ambiguous. The task of using the German Pavilion, which very much looks like a representative building, not for the purpose of representation but for art, simply fits the bill – a heavy burden, yet art makes light what would otherwise be heavy. And yet perhaps it is precisely what makes it so positive. I, for my part, love those cracks and opposites, and over the coming months I intend to seek out the most productive opposites for Venice, the German Pavilion, and Burkina Faso.”

       

      video: Wa(h)re Kunst: Die Museumsdirektorin Susanne Gaensheimer | euromaxx on youtube.com

       

       

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      17 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Finland

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      link: FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange - Venice Biennale  

      Artist: Vesa-Pekka Rannikko Curator: Laura Köönikkä  

      txt: Vesa-Pekka Rannikko Represents Finland at the 2011 Venice Biennale

      My choice was influenced by the versatility and re-inventiveness of the artist as well as his ability to take charge of architectonic space. Rannikko’s international fame will also enhance Finland’s visibility at the multinational Biennale”, says exhibition curator Laura Köönikkä. Amongst Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s most recognisable works are sculptures that reproduce objects in three dimensions, mimicking paintings. Rannikko has also created several location-specific works where the usual boundaries between viewer, work of art and space are blurred. His works challenge the limits of viewing and experience: an image becomes a material object while the space of the work becomes an image. Viewers feel impelled to question the veracity of many of the works, due to the juxtaposition of their theme and the way they are realised. For Rannikko, one starting point for the exhibition at the Venice Biennale is the Aalto Pavilion in Venice. Ceated by Alvar Aalto, it was originally meant to be a temporary structure. Now Rannikko is keen to explore its role and character as a stage for what is Finnish.

       

      video: Finland Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai: 2010

       

       

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      14 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Austria

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      links: www.labiennale.at Venice Biennale 2011 Austria on Facebook  

      txt: Commissioner's Statement

       

      In his Venice project, Markus Schinwald examines the Austrian Pavilion built 1934 by Josef Hoffmann, an architectural landmark in and around the Giardini district. Markus Schinwald, who scored success with complex installations he realized mainly in museums and art institutions outside Austria, as for example in Zurich, Frankfurt, Brussels, and Budapest, has a comprehensive oeuvre to show for, with his works combining performative with painterly, sculptural, filmic and architectural elements. With subtlety and finesse, Schinwald explores dispositifs of control, disciplining, and self-improvement, which inscribe themselves in the human body, shaping and pervading it to re-emerge on the body surface as psychologically charged inner worlds, visible and palpable. This approach also makes itself felt in his Biennale contribution: the viewer turns into a performer, the pavilion into a closed stage. By dissecting the interior space along vertical axes, a new mode of perception emerges which makes the human body its structural frame of reference: “Although these constructional components are of course architectural elements, it suggested itself to use psychoanalytical terms for a concise definition; after all, the space created is dissociative rather than than actually fragmented: claustrophobic above and nothing below. Or, if you will, the mind in neurosis, the crotch in psychosis. However, unlike in the spatial sculptures of Bruce Nauman or Robert Morris, the space intervention is not an autonomous act here, but also a kind of stage system or environment for the display of different works. It is, for one thing, an attempt to establish various different elements and, at the same time, to avoid explicit categorizations through contrastive positioning”, Markus Schinwald explains.

       

      video: Approaching Venice - Jörg Heiser

       

       

       

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      29 Jan 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011 first entries (update January, 2011)

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      This was an old release of the list.

      For updates and more details please see

      Venice Biennale 2011 national participations: names, links, places

       

       

      Argentina - Adrián Villar Rojas

      Armenia - Viktor Mnatsakanyan Armenian Pavilion Commissioner

      Australia - Hany Armanious

      Austria - Markus Schinwald

      Azerbaijan - A. Sadikhzade, A. Salakhova, A. Ousseinov, M. Abdurahmanov, K. Gasimov, Z. Azizov

      Belgium - Angel Vergara

      Canada - Steven Shearer

      Central Asia - Central Asia Pavilion

      Chile - Fernando Prats

      Denmark - Katerina Gregos curator of the Danish Pavilion

      Finland - Vesa-Pekka Rannikko

      France - Christian Boltanski

      Germany - Christoph Schlingensief

      Great Britain - Mike Nelson

      Greece - Diohandi

      Hungary - Hajnal Németh

      Iceland - Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson

      India - Indian pavilion at 2011 Venice Biennale

      Ireland - Corban Walker

      Israel - Sigalit Landau

      Italy - Sgarbi as curator of Italian Pavillion at Biennale 2011

      Japan - Tabaimo

      Korea - Lee Yong-baek

      Lebanon - The Lebanon Pavilion

      Netherlands - J. Robaard, J. Schwartz, B. Visser, M. Mooren and EventArchitectuur

      New Zealand - Michael Parekowhai

      Nordic Pavilion - Sweden presents: Fia Backström and Andreas Eriksson

      Northern Ireland - Arts Council reviews participation at Venice Biennale 2011

      Norway - Norway at the 54th Venice International art exhibition

      Poland - Yael Bartana

      Russia - Andrei Monastyrsky and Collective Actions

      Scotland - Karla Black

      Serbia: Dragoljub Rasa Todosijevic

      Singapore - Ho Tzu Nyen

      Spain - Dora García

      Switzerland - Thomas Hirschhorn and Andrea Thal

      Taiwan: Hsieh Chun-te

      Turkey: Ayse Erkmen

      UAE - UAE pavilion: Vasif Kortun as curator

      United States - IMA: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

      Uruguay - Carlos Capelán, Magela Ferrero

      Wales - Tim Davies

       

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      29 Jan 2011

      A Venezia si può inseguire la modernità, non si è solo sopraffatti dalla tradizione

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      link: www.marsilioeditori.it

      txt: L’avventura Marsilio - I 50 anni della casa editrice.

      Cesare De Michelis: Quando l’ho fondata, tutto sembrava possibile. Un’atmosfera sparita. Ce l’ho fatta perché sono testardo - corrieredelveneto.corriere.it

       

      Professore, oggi sembra quasi impossibile pensare che 50 anni fa in Veneto nacque e riuscì a sopravvivere una casa editrice come la Marsilio. Che clima c’era? Era un altro Paese e c’era tutto un altro clima culturale. Era un Veneto molto arretrato, dove era ancora molto forte la migrazione fuori dalla regione, ma dove si intuivano i primi segnali della ripresa. C’era una bella vivacità, il boom economico alle porte: in qualche modo la gente cercava soluzioni diverse e nuovo per il Paese. Rispetto a oggi, allora tutto sembrava possibile. L’ansia di partecipare a questa festa del progresso era palpabile. Oggi non c’è nulla che assomigli a quello che successe allora. [...] Lei è un verdiano e ha scelto Nono per festeggiare i 50 anni. Un’opera difficile e una scelta azzardata. Perché? Penso sia un evento culturale che restituisce il clima di quegli anni. Volevo far vedere che anche stando a Venezia si può inseguire la modernità, non si è solo sopraffatti dalla tradizione. C’è una doppia ricorrenza in questa scelta: l’opera nacque in quegli anni, come noi
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      19 Jan 2011

      Communication Power

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      book: Communication Power - Manuel Castells on amazon.com

       

      We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The mass media (including web-based media), Manuel Castells argues, has become the space where political and business power strategies are played out; power now lies in the hands of those who understand or control communication. Over the last thirty years, Castells has emerged as one of the world's leading communications theorists. In this, his most far-reaching book for a decade, he explores the nature of power itself, in the new communications environment. His vision encompasses business, media, neuroscience, technology, and, above all, politics. His case histories include global media deregulation, the misinformation that surrounded the invasion of Iraq, environmental movements, the role of the internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control in Russia and China. In the new network society of instant messaging, social networking, and blogging--"mass self-communication"--politics is fundamentally media politics. This fact is behind a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy that challenges the meaning of democracy in much of the world. Deeply researched, far-reaching in scope, and incisively argued, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

      links:

        - #tunisie

      - #wikileaks on twitter

       

      video: Castells' keynote at oxford for the release of his new book, "Communication Power" on vimeo.com

       

       

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      19 Dec 2010

      Merry Christmas from oddtag / Buon Natale da oddtag

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      Merry Xmas from the oddtag. Let's do something good, if you can. Be good!

      Buon Natale da oddtag. Fate qualcosa di buono, se potete. State bene!

      link: www.join1goal.org

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      video: Shakira - WAKA WAKA : Let's All Dance For 1GOAL

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      8 Dec 2010

      Never waste a good crisis: the Net, the Power and WikiLeaks

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      txt: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice - John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

       

      The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net.

       

      links:

      - How Wikileaks has woken up journalism - Emily Bell, Tow Center Columbia University

      - Il potere digitale - Stefano Rodotà, repubblica.it

      - Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America - Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief of Wired.com

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      4 Dec 2010

      High water in Venice: FAQ!

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      txt: High water in Venice: frequently asked questions (FAQ) - City of Venice

       

      What happens in Venice when there's a high tide? Venice and Venetians have always been used to coping with "acqua alta". These are the City Administration's measures in case of high tide: if there's a sea level forecast of +110 cm on the mareographic zero, the population is alerted by acoustic signals and with text messages (for those registered at the free high tide information service of the City Tide Centre - Centro Maree Comunale). At the same time, elevated platforms are set along the main streets to allow passage. Public waterbuses keep on working, although some lines may be subject to changes. In any case access to most of the town is guaranteed. Only when exceptional high waters occur (higher than 120 cm on the mareographic zero) the famous "acqua alta boots" are really needed, but even on these occasions the inconvenience last just as long as it takes for the water to go down again, which usually happens in a few hours.

       

      link: www.comune.venezia.it - City of Venice website

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