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      21 Apr 2010

      Venice Biennale Dance: Marathon of the unexpected

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      txt: www.labiennale.org - 7th Venice International Festival of Contemporary Dance
      This year’s Festival takes a close look at a wide geographic area, with two focuses on Canada and Quebec, Australia and New Zealand, together with other new projects from Italy and elsewhere. Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal contend the primacy in dance with such cities as New York thanks to their major events that have been held for some years, such as the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse and the more recent BC Scéne, Festival TransAmériques, Push Festival, and through the ferment and variety of choreographic offering. Australia too offers more than 60 official dance companies, hundreds of independent artists and 21 universities offering institutional courses dedicated to dance, which all lead to this discipline gaining in breadth. But what is interesting above all is the cultural uniqueness of New Zealand, which blends an indigenous culture and 200 different nationalities. [...] Marathon of the Unexpected (June 12, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale) is the space dedicated to novelty that the Biennale has created within the Festival: all the pieces are new and lightning-fast – not more than 5 minutes each – and selected via a competition to try and provide visibility for works that would otherwise have little exposure. Go&Go Dance Party (June 12, Tese delle Vergini) will instead be an evening of shared festivity to celebrate the joy and beauty of dance and so crown the Festival.
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      20 Apr 2010

      Venice Biennale - 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Capturing Emotions

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      txt: Venice Biennale: 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Capturing Emotions 26th May > 12th June 2010
      Capturing Emotions is the title the director, Ismael Ivo, has chosen for this Festival, because dance, he writes, “is a workshop of human emotions and shared visions”. The Festival, organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice and with the expected support of the Veneto Region, focuses above all on two geographic and cultural macro-areas: Quebec and Canada on the one side, and Australia and New Zealand on the other, placing consolidated names such as those of Marie Chouinard and the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal alongside young names – from Europe – that include the young and dynamic companies of the Kidd Pivot and Chunky Move. Alongside the active presence of artists from or working in these areas, the spaces of the Arsenale in Venice (Teatro alle Tese, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Tese delle Vergini), of the Teatro Malibran and of the Sale Apollinee in the Fenice, of the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and of the Teatro Toniolo in Mestre will host choreographers from Italy, the United States and Sweden with original works presented as world premieres for the Biennale. A new feature for the Festival will be the opening of a separate space dedicated to the most experimental experiences in the field of dance, revealing pieces that would otherwise be little visible. Marathon of the Unexpected will be a space concentrated in a single day (12 June, from 3 to 10 p.m.) and comprising very short performances –not more than 15 minutes– to be chosen and presented on the basis of a call for entries (deadline 10th April 2010)
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      11 Apr 2010

      Venice Art Biennale 2011 first entries

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      updated: see Venice Art Biennale 2011 entries – (update January 2011) links: - Iceland Libia Castro og Ólafur Ólafsson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2011 - Australia Hany Armanious to represent Australia at Venice Biennale 2011 - Britain Mike Nelson selected for Venice Biennale 2011 - New Zealand New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2011 - Israel Artist Sigalit Landau to represent Israel at 2011 Venice Biennale - France Christian Boltanski représentera la France à la Biennale de Venise 2011 - Germany Susanne Gaensheimer named curator of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale - United states Franco to represent US at Venice Biennale 2011 - Italy Shock appointment of anti-modernist to Venice Biennale img: La vida es un contratiempo / Life is an offbeat / Photography, The artists, courtesy Sjónauki - The Pavilion of Iceland
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      11 Apr 2010

      From Mann to Hirst: Death in Venice

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      link: DAMIEN HIRST - Death in Venice | Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia - Palazzo Palumbo Fossati - 12 aprile - 30 luglio 2010 txt: Death in Venice - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. [...] Mann's original intention was to write about "passion as confusion and degradation", after having been fascinated by the true story of Goethe's love for 18-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow, which had led Goethe to write his Marienbad Elegy. The death of Gustav Mahler and Mann's interest in a boy during summer vacation were additional experiences occupying his thoughts. He used the story to illuminate certain convictions about the relationship between life and mind, with Gustav representing the intellectual. Mann was also influenced by Sigmund Freud and his views on dreams, as well as by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He had visited Venice several times.
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      5 Apr 2010

      Goodbye Cacciari

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      L'arte contemporanea, la politica, la filosofia, la poesia. E Venezia. video: L'intervista di Daniele Luttazzi a Massimo Cacciari su SATYRICON [Parte 1/2] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPllXFiEXv8] link: SATYRICON - Massimo Cacciari [Parte 2/2]
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      26 Mar 2010

      Festival delle città impresa: (what) culture enriches (who of) us

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      txt: The Festival of the city-enterprise - www.festivaldellecittaimpresa.it A Festival that wants to tell the transformations of the North East and think about the future. The urban centres are the protagonists, the symbols of the industrial transformation that has taken place during the last decades. Today they are representative models of a constantly moving system, lived as an experimental place, together with the cities that are the symbols of the cultural life. A network event that takes place in some cities-enterprise which constitute the symbol of the transformation of the Venice area's economic and social fabric, and that will connect them to Verona, Venice and Trieste, symbols of the three region's cultural life in turn, where some key events will take place. Locations Rovereto (TN): The culture of sustainability - science and enterprise meet in Technopolis. Schio (VI): Reinvent the worlds: how art and culture can create new scenarios after the crisis. Union of the cities Camposampierese (PD): The networks of knowledge and communication. Montebelluna-Asolo (TV): Design as a competitive factor for the enterprise. Vittorio Veneto (TV): Spaces and landscape of a European capital: ideas for a new balance. Maniago (PN): The new cultural industries: the movie factor. Interland Udine (UD): The new "Marco Polo". Culture as a dialogue and exchange factor between the markets and peoples from East to West. link: The Festival of the city-enterprise program
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      12 Mar 2010

      Pop Venice (in Las Vegas)

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      video: THE VENETIAN LAS VEGAS - vladi49 on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNO-xXoZY0]
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      6 Mar 2010

      Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors

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      txt: Not So Great Expectations - blog.nzatvenice.com
      Venice is synonymous with tourism. It has been a destination sought out and romanticised about for centuries and remains at the top of many a ‘bucket’ list. It is a city that has positioned itself to benefit from its historical and cultural significance but this may in many ways have contributed to its current state of decay by oversubscription. “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.” As the American expatriate writer Henry James pointed out the expectations of Venice often differ somewhat from the actual experience. As I work my way through the hundred plus pavilions and exhibitions associated with this year's Biennale I ponder how many artists have used these ideas as a catalyst for their work.
      img: Food, got food? - Tjflex2 on flickr.com
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      27 Feb 2010

      OECD study about Venice and climate change

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      txt: OECD Regional development Working Papers: Competitive Cities and Climate Change (pdf, 2Mb, English)
      Cities are part of the climate change problem, but they are also a key part of the solution. This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. Cities consume the vast majority of global energy and are therefore major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the exposed infrastructure and prevalent coastal location of many cities makes them common targets for climate change impacts such as sea level rise and fiercer storms. This report illustrates how local involvement through “climate-conscious” urban planning and management can help achieve national climate goals and minimise tradeoffs between environmental and economic priorities. Six main chapters analyse the link between urbanisation, energy use and CO2 emissions; assess the potential contribution of local policies in reducing global energy demand and the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives at the local scale; discuss complementary and mutually reinforcing policies such as the combination of compact growth policies with those that improve mass transit linkages; and evaluate a number of tools, including the “greening” of existing fiscal policies, financing arrangements to combat climate change at the local level, and green innovation and jobs programmes. One of the main messages of this report is that urban policies (e.g. densification or congestion charges) can complement global climate policies (e.g. a carbon tax) by reducing global energy demand, CO2 emissions and the overall abatement costs of reducing carbon emissions. To inform the groundswell of local climate change action planning, the report highlights best practices principally from OECD member countries but also from certain non-member countries.
      video: Sigur Ros - Hljomalind on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEE9AW94Hs]
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      22 Feb 2010

      Cold ironing: how to electrify (cruise) ships in port

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      link: Italians to Electrify Cruise Ships in Port - nytimes.com txt: Cold Ironing - From Wikipedia
      Cold Ironing (or AMP - Alternative Maritime Power) is the process of providing shore-side electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off. Cold ironing permits emergency equipment, refrigeration, cooling, heating, lighting, and other equipment to receive continuous electrical power while the ship loads or unloads its cargo. [...] As ships traditionally were not subject to emissions control, since the days of diesel powered ships, research was largely focused on using cheaper forms of fuel to run their engines. As a result, internationally, ships have been using Heavy Furnace Oil – residual petroleum – as the optimal choice of fuel. This fuel, the reverse of gas oils (which are derived through distillation of crude oil), is high on particulate matter and studies show that one ship can pollute as much as 50 million cars annually. The fuel used by ships is called bunker fuel. Further research indicates 60,000 of cardio-pulmonary mortalities due to Particulate Matter from ship emissions. These deaths have been detected far inland due to prevailing wind conditions from seaward. Total world trading fleet stands at 50,000+ merchant ships (Lloyds data as of Jan-2008). Each ship spends approximately 100 days in port in a year. For every kilowatt-hour (kW h) electricity, about 200 grams of bunker fuel is consumed. Each 1 kilo of bunker oil =3.125 kilos of Carbon dioxide. It is assessed that globally ships use 411,223,484 tonnes of fuel annually.
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