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      2 Apr 2011

      Happy April Fools' Day! Buon pesce d'aprile!

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      link: Gmail motion.. beta

      video: Introducing Gmail Motion - Now you can control Gmail with your body

       

       

      link: Pesce d'Aprile: apre sexi shop a Venezia, ma era uno scherzo - ansa.it  

      video: Pesce d'aprile a Venezia

       

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      25 Mar 2011

      Incroci di civiltà 2011- Incontri internazionali di letteratura a Venezia

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      links:

      - www.incrocidicivilta.org

      - www.facebook.com/incrocidicivilta

       

      txt: incroci di civiltà - www.incrocidicivilta.org

       

      La quarta edizione di INCROCI DI CIVILTÀ, Incontri internazionali di letteratura a Venezia, promosso da Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alle Attività e Produzioni Culturali e Università Ca' Foscari Venezia si svolgerà dal 13 al 16 aprile 2011, presentandosi con una nuova collocazione nel calendario e con un programma ricco di novità per portare ancora una volta il mondo a Venezia e Venezia nel mondo. Si conferma la formula di osservare il mondo di oggi, avvicinarsi alle culture vicine e lontane, analizzare il loro incontrarsi ed incrociarsi, affrontare le tematiche più attuali attraverso lo sguardo privilegiato degli scrittori. Ad Antonia S. Byatt, Theo Angelopoulos, Petros Markaris, i nomi di punta già annunciati al momento del lancio del ciclo preparatorio Verso Incroci, si aggiungono un ospite di straordinario prestigio come il premio Nobel V. S. Naipaul, gli enfant terribile della narrativa contemporanea Etgar Keret e Wladimir Kaminer, i bestseller italiani Gianrico Carofiglio e Alessandro Piperno, la coraggiosa narratrice croata Dubravka Ugrešic, l'artista del fumetto Joann Sfar, dodici poeti di tutto il mondo venuti a celebrare il centenario di Czesław Miłosz, e molti altri autori e culture da scoprire.

       

      video: INCROCI DI CIVILTÀ (edizione 2010) youtube.com

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      25 Mar 2011

      The urbanization knowledge platform

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      txt: The Urbanization Knowledge Platform with Edward Glaeser on the Triumph of the City - worldbank.org

       

      So the question is: what are we doing about it? One new response is the Urbanization Knowledge Platform—a collaborative partnership between researchers, policymakers, the private-sector, and knowledge brokers including the World Bank Group. The platform aims to become the leading ‘go-to’ hub for urban knowledge, by providing a compelling venue for interactions and by matching the incentives of multiple stakeholders in urbanization to contribute knowledge and learn from each other.

       

      links:

      Urbanization - Wikipedia

      Brief review of world socio-demographic trends

       

      video: Urbanization Knowledge Platform - youtube.com

       

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      10 Mar 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Wales

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      curator: Tom Rowland artist: Tim Davies venue: Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice - Castello Venezia on Google maps link: Art Council of Wales - Wales at the Venice Biennale  

      txt: about Tim Davies - www.artscouncilofwales.org

       

      Tim Davies is part of a constituency of artists, working transnationally, who are committed to ‘place’ but also function in the world, who do not prescribe our understanding nor privilege their own by adopting an avant-garde position. Davies works by unpicking the locks of human experience, from a position already beyond Modernism, rather than leading any sort of futile charge against it. He asks that we explore the nature and meaning of that experience with him. He also embodies, in his practice, a role for the artist which has both intimacy and, at the same time, the wider reach necessary to access the individual and collective public mind and it is this which makes it a new, necessary kind of ‘public’ art (essay in The Butler Gallery’s Kilkenny Shift catalogue, 2009).

       

      video: Poem in October by Gerald Conn on vimeo.com

       

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      28 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Denmark

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      "Speech Matters" curator: Katerina Gregos link: The Danish Arts Agency  

      txt: Danish Pavilion 2011 Curator's statement

       

      The exhibition aims to provoke a considered debate and to complicate the issue of freedom of speech which seems, more and more, to be used as an empty slogan for political purposes, and subjected to a very simplified, biased or populist debate when in fact it is an extremely complex, often ambivalent issue which is contingent on subjective political, social, cultural, religious and personal circumstances. The discussion around freedom of speech is therefore not only complicated but also highly relative and debatable, and the exhibition aims to highlight these intricacies, ambiguities and grey areas, emphasizing the fact that freedom of speech cannot be exercised or applied in any programmatic or strictly proscribed manner. Why an exhibition on freedom of speech at this time? Because it is one of the key issues in the current public debate and one that is becoming increasingly contested given the steady erosion of civil liberties, even in the 'freer', Western world. Apart from the fact that it relates to Denmark specifically, it is also highly relevant in relation to much of what is happening in the world today from press intimidation and censorship in Russia and elsewhere, to the recent Google episode in China, down to other issues such as increasing surveillance in the UK and the USA, and highly charged debates on the limits of freedom of speech in several European countries such as the Netherlands. Finally, it also touches on the essence of visual artistic practice per se, which fundamentally entails conditions of freedom.

       

      video: Katerina Gregos - The Elastic Documentary (part 1) - kask on vimeo.com

       

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      25 Feb 2011

      Venice Biennale 2011: Australia

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      links: - Australian pavilion - Australia Council for the Arts Curator: Anne Ellegood Artist: Hany Armanious txt: (.pdf) Hany Armanious to represent Australia at Venice Biennale 2011

       

      Hany’s work is provocative and enigmatic, said Venice Biennale Commissioner, Doug Hall. ‘It confronts the traditional notions of sculpture. The richness and depth of Hany’s work is greatly admired both here and internationally. I’m confident that international audiences will respond to it with keen interest. It will build on the strong presence of Shaun Gladwell and the other artists represented in the Once Removed exhibition presented in Venice in 2009.’ ‘The Venice Biennale is a crucial high-profile platform for visual artists the world over,” said Australia Council CEO Kathy Keele. ‘Of the reported 375,000 visitors to the 2009 exhibition, over 220,000 of them visited our Australian pavilion. Presenting to such a large audience is an immense opportunity for any artist. This time that honour falls on just one Australian artist, and I’m confident that Hany will build on Australia’s long presence at Venice and impress our international audiences with his unique and engaging works.’

       

      link: Uncanny Valley, 2009 - Hany Armanious, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery  

      video: The Uncanny Valley Popscivideo on youtube.com

       

       

       

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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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