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“Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:16:28 -0700 Venice Biennale Architecture: Out Where? http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-architecture-out-where http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-architecture-out-where [links]+[txt] Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition - Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons - www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects - Venice Biennale: The highlights - www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which is about you have, with the route ending, happily enough, in paradise (shown) - Out Here: Disquieted Architecture - www.e-flux.com: architecture in a contemporary landscape marked by questions of ephemerality, transience, frequent paradoxes and continuous movements in time and space. - Hadid's Space-Age Sculptures Land in Venice Villa for Biennale - www.bloomberg.com: Two sculptures of flamboyant and curvaceous metal have taken over the Hall of Giants near Venice. - S'pore ideas bloom in Venice - www.straitstimes.com (singapore): A cacophony of sounds heralded the opening of the Singapore Pavilion

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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:07:07 -0700 Venice is a great place for coffee http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-is-a-great-place-for-coffee http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-is-a-great-place-for-coffee [txt] Letter From Venice Off-Season: Art between the Biennials - brooklynrail.org
However, this also happens to be a summer season when there is no biennial—at least, no biennial of contemporary art. The architectural biennial and the film fest—both under the aegis of the Biennale di Venezia—will make their quixotic appearances in September, when the weather has tempered a bit, including the lowering of heat, humidity, and chance of flash storms. With its aura of royalty and decadence, this is the place where art lovers love to be. In addition to the historical regalia, Venice—like most of Italy—is a great place for coffee.
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:04:11 -0700 The thing I hate/love most about advertising http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-thing-i-hatelove-most-about-advertising http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-thing-i-hatelove-most-about-advertising [txt] Room 116 - Banksy
The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. BANKSY
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhan
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:38:02 -0700 Postmodernist Venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/postmodernist-venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/postmodernist-venice txt: Venezia, aperto nella notte il ponte di Calatrava/Venice, opened in the night the Calatrava bridge
Una vera e propria opera d'arte contemporanea, la prima di una serie che in citta' ha diversi cantieri aperti: quelli di Punta delle Dogana con il progetto di Tadao Ando, le Gallerie dell'Accademia con Tobia Scarpa, il nuovo Palazzo del Cinema al Lido con 'i 5 +1', il people mover, il nuovo Museo Vedova ai Magazzini del Sale sotto la sovrintendenza di Renzo Piano. Il prossimo bando, a breve, riguardera' il nuovo Ponte dell'Accademia, la cui priorità sarà l'essere accessibile a tutti. [en] A real work of contemporary art, the first of a series in the city where several sites are open: those of Punta della Dogana with the Tadao Ando project, the Gallerie dell'Accademia with Tobia Scarpa, the new Palazzo del Cinema the Lido with 'the 5 +1', the "people mover", the new Museum Vedova at the Magazzini del Sale under the sovrintendenza by Renzo Piano. The new Ponte dell'Accademia, whose priority will be to be accessible to all.
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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:20:46 -0700 And then Peggy arrived http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-then-peggy-arrived http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-then-peggy-arrived txt: And then Peggy arrived - 1948-2008: 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice
To celebrate 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the museum offers a calendar of activities to supplement the temporary exhibitions. There will be lectures, free guided visits to exhibitions, a movie program during the summer, educational workshops.
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:50:01 -0700 Art should not be a space shut in on itself http://oddtag.posterous.com/art-should-not-be-a-space-shut-in-on-itself http://oddtag.posterous.com/art-should-not-be-a-space-shut-in-on-itself txt: An Interview with Maurizio Cattelan - www.sculpture.org
Maurizio Cattelan: It feels strange to talk about sculptures. It’s not so much a question of means as of images. I never even use my hands to create my work, just my ear glued to the phone. More than anything else, I listen to the murmur of images, and that’s always louder than the echo in the phone. I’m more interested in images than in sculptures. Imagine: I never took a chisel in my hands, never even had a studio.
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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:20:37 -0700 The fun art fair http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-fun-art-fair http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-fun-art-fair txt: All the fun of the art fair - From The TimesOnLine
There is not much difference between an art fair and a fun fair. Behind the gaily painted façades and the smiles of the stallholders they are both, fundamentally, all about money. [...] Frieze has become a phenomenon because it understands a basic principle. Art fairs have to be fun. They are not about dry academic assessment of the contemporary. They are about entertainment. They must not encourage prudence. They must promote competitive consumption. In a fairground atmosphere, financial caution is more likely to be cast to the wind.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:09:15 -0700 OPEN XI http://oddtag.posterous.com/open-xi http://oddtag.posterous.com/open-xi txt: OPEN XI - 11 Esposizione Internazionale di Sculture ed Installazioni / OPEN XI, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations - from 27 August to 28 September 2008 at Venice Lido and on the Island of San Servolo.
Il percorso espositivo si snoda lungo i lavori di quarantaquattro artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo per costruire un pensiero geografico; non solo una soglia etnica e politica ma soprattutto un’idea. Uno spunto per poter parlare di viaggi ed attraversamenti, di forze e poteri. [en]: The itinerary of the exhibition presents the works of forty-three artists from all over the world, creating a geographical thought; not only an ethnic and political concept, but above all an idea. A cue for talking about travels and crossings, strength and power.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:38:57 -0700 La fabbrica della cultura / The culture factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/la-fabbrica-della-cultura-the-culture-factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/la-fabbrica-della-cultura-the-culture-factory txt: I precari dell'arte - VENEZIA Mostre ma anche progetti sul mondo del lavoro agli ex magazzini del Sale - www.ilmanifesto.it Dobbiamo ricordare - dice a questo proposito Baravalle - che tutto quello che è produzione immateriale, produzione di linguaggi e quindi anche la produzione culturale e creatività non sono più accessori nell'economia metropolitana ma sono molto spesso chiavi per quanto riguarda lo sviluppo della metropoli ----------- [en] We have to remember - says Baravalle - that all that is immaterial production, production of languages, cultural production and creativity are no longer accessories in the urban economy but are very often the keys in the development of the metropolis. video: Metropolis - an extract from Fritz Lang's Silent Film (1926) on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ffa3Qa4ah4]

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:59:01 -0700 These considerations aside, however http://oddtag.posterous.com/these-considerations-aside-however http://oddtag.posterous.com/these-considerations-aside-however txt: Manifesta 7 - Frieze Magazine
When Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was first instituted in 1993, it was in the spirit of cultural exchange, globalization and European integration that followed the end of the Cold War. In being an itinerant entity, Manifesta had a double remit: first, to present a picture of a pan-European cultural field; and second, to reflect specifically on the often troubled border zones in which the biennial was sited. [...] The slightly uncertain focus of this year’s Manifesta reflects perhaps as much biennial fatigue as this more widespread move away from such key biennial assumptions. Indeed, spread out across four sites (in three cities and one abandoned fortress) in the affluent Italian region of Trentino–South Tyrol, the four shows that comprised Manifesta all faltered – and, interestingly, in different ways – in responding to the notion of the continent at large, or even the specific history of the locale. These considerations aside, however, Manifesta brought together some very good work.
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:19 -0700 Architecture is not building http://oddtag.posterous.com/architecture-is-not-building http://oddtag.posterous.com/architecture-is-not-building txt: OUT THERE - Venice Biennale Architecture 11th International Architecture Exhibition The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
Betsky goes on to point out “what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday. In a concrete sense, architecture is that which allows us to be at home in the world”. “The challenge of the 11th – underlines Betsky - is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture. Such experimentation can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world. This Biennale does not want to present buildings that are already in existence and can be enjoyed in real life. It does not want to propose abstract solutions to social problems, but wants to see if architecture, by experimenting in and on the real world, can offer some concrete forms or seductive images”.
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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:17:48 -0700 In Venice, everybody is always lost so you don't feel bad http://oddtag.posterous.com/in-venice-everybody-is-always-lost-so-you-don http://oddtag.posterous.com/in-venice-everybody-is-always-lost-so-you-don via: The Blitheness of the Art World by Felix Salmon www.portfolio.com txt: Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton - www.amazon.com
A couple of tables away, amid a scruffier entourage, sat John Baldessari. The sage L.A. artist was drinking a no-nonsense vodka on the rocks with his long legs stretched out in front of him. This year he was staying at the five-star Danieli... "Now I receive a lot of invitations, but I usually say no," he said with some satisfaction... Although he despairs of the social hierarchies and the "visual overload," Baldessari has come to like Venice, in part because he has a bad sense of direction. "I'll turn the wrong way coming out of the elevator every morning," he said. "In Venice, everybody is always lost, so you don't feel bad when you pass someone you know sitting at a café for the third time in ten minutes."
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Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:06:55 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: UK, Swiss http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-uk-swiss http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-uk-swiss link: - L'OFC envoie Silvia Bächli et Fabrice Gygi à la 53e Biennale artistique internationale de Venise (en) The OFC sends Silvia Bächli and Fabrice Gygi at the 53rd Biennale in Venice - Steve Mcqueen to represent Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale video: Happy Tree Friends: Just Desert - MondoMedia on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3e50OyDSo]

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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:54:53 -0700 The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-artist-today-is-no-longer-a-simple-produc http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-artist-today-is-no-longer-a-simple-produc txt: L'arte di reti e relazioni, la net art e la condivisione ("Network art and relations, net art and sharing") - Punto Informatico
[en] The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors. His is not a mere symbolic function in society. It is vice versa an active partecipatore involved "directly" in production processes and social problems around them. It is this sensitivity to work cooperatively, to be able to perceive and interact with the processes social and anthropological, as well as technological, keeping firmly in front of where the beacon of ethical values-oriented common good, instead of profit, this is the sensitivity and the priority that the school must be able to convey to their students. The keywords of the School are terms like report, cooperation, interdisciplinareità, interaction, intercreatività or communication. --------------- [it] L'artista oggi non è più un semplice produttore di metafore. La sua non è una mera funzione simbolica all'interno della società. È viceversa un partecipatore attivo che interviene "direttamente" nei processi produttivi e sociali che lo circondano. È questa sensibilità al lavoro cooperativo, al saper intuire ed interagire con i processi sociali ed antropologici, oltre che tecnologici, mantenendo ben saldo di fronte a se il faro dei valori etici orientati al bene comune, anziché al profitto individuale, è questa la sensibilità e la priorità che la Scuola deve saper trasmettere ai propri studenti. Le parole chiave della Scuola sono termini come relazione, cooperazione, interdisciplinareità, interazione, intercreatività, oppure comunicazione.
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Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:04:42 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Canada http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-canada http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-canada see also: Venice Biennale 2009 first entries txt: Artist Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art
It is critical that Canadian contemporary artists travel and exhibit their works internationally, said Robert Sirman, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, and there is no more prestigious international venue in the visual arts than the Venice Biennale. The Council is proud to play a major role in the Canadian representation in Venice. We are deeply proud and thrilled to be able to present Mark Lewis’ new project at the Venice Biennale, says Barbara Fischer. Often focusing on singular moments in the contemporary urban or rural environment, his quietly majestic works offer a cinematic experience of time while remarking on the ruptures of history. They combine, in a new way, pictorial traditions with the genres and techniques of film to analyze both, and thereby offer poignant perspectives on the displacements that characterize modern life.
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:35:00 -0700 A Manifesto for street poetry http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-manifesto-for-street-poetry http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-manifesto-for-street-poetry "Senza paura, poesia gettata all'onde." Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere. "Without fear, poems thrown on the waves" Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere. video: Ivan street performance in Rome by xister on vimeo.com [vimeo 1149083]

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:24:51 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009 first entries http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-first-entries http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-first-entries Australia at Venice Biennale 2009 Dock man to pilot Irish Republic to Venice German Pavilion 2009 - The future always acts differently An honor, a joy and a challenge (Israel pavilion) New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009 Bruce Nauman Representing the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale Ragnar Kjartansson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2009 The Danish Pavilion and The Nordic Pavilion In the 2009 Edition of the Venice Biennale video: the muppets show intro [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_aG5MzPVM]

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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:17:36 -0700 Virtue and knowledge http://oddtag.posterous.com/virtue-and-knowledge http://oddtag.posterous.com/virtue-and-knowledge txt: The Divine Comedy - Inferno: Canto XXVI Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.
"O frati", dissi "che per cento milia perigli siete giunti a l’occidente, a questa tanto picciola vigilia d’i nostri sensi ch’è del rimanente non vogliate negar l’esperïenza, di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente. Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza".
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'O brothers, who amid a hundred thousand Perils,' I said, 'have come unto the West, To this so inconsiderable vigil Which is remaining of your senses still Be ye unwilling to deny the knowledge, Following the sun, of the unpeopled world. Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.'
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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:11:08 -0700 Check-in Architecture http://oddtag.posterous.com/check-in-architecture http://oddtag.posterous.com/check-in-architecture txt: What is Check-in Architecture
What is Check-In Architecture? Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries. Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog. Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions. Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed videos. Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space. Check-in Architecture is a generation living low-cost, travelling low-cost, aware of communication dynamics and their roles in it. Check-in Architecture: the project Check-in Architecture is a participatory research project, supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA), the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2008 World Design Capital, Turin. We invite art, architecture, design and creativity students from the best universities in Europe (you can find the complete list under the heading universities) to film spaces and people all over the continent. You will have the opportunity to travel for free, with logistical support from the Check-in Architecture office. In every city, you will accomplish a mission, producing a short documentary based on a script and a set of instructions
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