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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:19:25 -0800 That sinking feeling: Venice Biennale's floating house shipwrec http://oddtag.posterous.com/that-sinking-feeling-venice-biennales-floatin http://oddtag.posterous.com/that-sinking-feeling-venice-biennales-floatin video: That sinking feeling: Venice Biennale's floating house shipwrec [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Cb9BzQxus]

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:35:19 -0800 Venice is a Collision Zone http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-is-a-collision-zone http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-is-a-collision-zone Ho camminato molto per Venezia questa estate, fatto foto, visto molte cose interessanti. Ho visitato molti degli eventi collaterali della Biennale di Arte. Ho scoperto molti angoli di questa città che non conoscevo, e in cui si poteva entrare solo durante la Biennale di Arte. Di questa Biennale (di questa Venezia) rimane un senso di confine, di limite, di incertezza. E di vuoto. Confini chiusi, confini che si aprono, confini che si richiudono. Limiti da passare, o già passati. Limiti da rivedere. Crisi o nuove prospettive? Venezia rimane zona di collisione. I walked a lot in Venice this summer: lot of photos, many interesting things. I visited many of the collateral events of the Biennale of Art. I discovered corners of this town I didn't know, and where you could enter only during the Biennale of Art. This Biennale (this Venice) leaves a sense of boundary, of limit, of uncertainty. And of emptiness. Closed borders, borders to be open, re-closing borders. Limits to pass, or already passed. Limits to be reviewed. Crisis or new opportunities? Venice remains a collision zone. txt: Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert - Collision Zone - Louxembourg Pavilion
Europe’s fear of massive infiltration from without lies at the heart of Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert’s Collision Zone, a haunted staging of image and sound recordings collected by the artists in the border regions of the Mediterranean. [...] Collision Zone fundamentally questions the notion of borders, following the observation that continents in general, and Africa in specific, are actually moving and constantly changing their respective positions. Overpowering natural and geological forces slowly but surely extend or shift the world’s physical and geographical boundaries. Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert’s work thus draws its inspiration from a series of phenomena on the brink of the visible which appear to be regulating our world. By merging biological time and deep time, their installation creates a lapse of meditative time – a purposeful introspective slowdown interrupted by sporadic violent eruptions.
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Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:53:27 -0700 What is left of Venetian art glamour? http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-left-of-venetian-art-glamour http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-left-of-venetian-art-glamour txt:: 53rd Venice Biennale - www.shift.jp.org
Shame on me: after skipping the opening of one of the greatest art events this planet has to offer, I had still not been to Venice for for the breathtakingly important 53rd edition of the Biennale d'Arte in early September. Since I skipped the fashion obligations that would have called me to New York and London, I mused that I could at least busy myself with some belated commitment to art. And off I went to la bella Venezia: one of the world's most beautiful cities and one where you run a 100 % chance of getting lost in some unpenetrable Calle, Sottoportego or Ramo when looking for forlorn art pavilion outside the Giardini. Months after the opening, I found myself rummaging through the remains of the Biennale, trotting lightyears behind the glamorously jet-setting international art élite
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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:51:53 -0700 Arsenale Novissimo, past and future of Venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/arsenale-novissimo-past-and-future-of-venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/arsenale-novissimo-past-and-future-of-venice Got a little time to see Venice? Go to the Arsenale Novissimo. You'll find four very interesting collateral events (Unconditional Love, The Fear Society - Pabellón de la Urgencia, Rietveld Arsenale, ADACH Platform for Venice, Jan Fabre - From the Feet to the Brain), and a unique view of one of the most important shipyard in the world for centuries. What was the main industry of the past is becoming one of the most interesting places of the future of this town. img: ADACH pavillion in Venice Arsenale
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:48:26 -0700 Oddtag Biennale http://oddtag.posterous.com/oddtag-biennale http://oddtag.posterous.com/oddtag-biennale I think it's going to be my personal view of the Biennale: a journey through places, events, streets, people, art: a slow pace, a map of the collateral events and the other venues and my eyes open txt: Not seeing but drowning: my visit to the Venice Biennale
Three days follow, throughout which you are doing pretty much nothing but looking at art, but when you leave it's clear that you've seen practically nothing at all. Did I see Krossing in Mestre? No. Did I catch Blue Zone at Campo San Zaccaria? I'm afraid not. What about Seduction into the Sign in the Campo della Chiesa? There was no time. And perhaps these are much more interesting than anything that did pass under my gaze. So the guilt sets in: what was I doing all that time? What was I thinking of?
video: Sorry I'm Late by Tomas Mankovsky on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4862670]

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:16:17 -0700 Slowness is a pleasure http://oddtag.posterous.com/slowness-is-a-pleasure http://oddtag.posterous.com/slowness-is-a-pleasure txt: Venice | Slowly but Surely - themoment.blogs.nytimes.com
To say that everybody I spoke to offered up a different and contradictory opinion on the Biennale is to state the obvious, but most people would most likely agree that this one will go down as the Slow Biennale. But that is a good thing, like a wonderful International meal cooked and eaten in one of those pretentious but simple, snooty but friendly, obvious but obscure Slow Food restaurants that are the only pride of Italy these days. (Let’s not even talk about Berlusconi or the artists in the Italian national pavilion!) [...] Suffice it to say that the slowness of the days spent in the rooms of the Biennale felt like a pleasure rather than a duty.
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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:21:56 -0700 Lateral Biennale view http://oddtag.posterous.com/lateral-biennale-view http://oddtag.posterous.com/lateral-biennale-view I haven't been to the official Biennale. Not yet. Not being part of the art jet-set or a correspondent with a strict dead line has some privileges, and lot of consequences on job.. So I've found a sort of affinity with the feelings expressed by Christy Lange on Frieze Magazine. "I started to feel relieved, and, actually, relaxed". I think that is the best way for being part of a place, Venice, and of an event, the Biennale. "And, without even realizing it, that’s exactly what I had been waiting for." txt: Postcards from Venice - pt. 5: Easy Does It - Frieze Magazine
It was the first time I’d looked out at the tourists gliding by in gondolas and not wished that I was one of them, but rather felt I was perfectly content to be here, exactly in this spot, not worrying what I should be seeing next or what else I might be missing. Meanwhile, Kjartansson proceeded with his work unhurriedly – rearranging his easel and mixing paints and stopping to chat with his mother, while his model sat on the sofa plucking a guitar and looking sulky. I know it sounds like a bad music video, but in fact the Icelandic pavilion succeeds in creating an informal atmosphere without being shabby. And, without even realizing it, that’s exactly what I had been waiting for.
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Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:21:26 -0700 The Biennale is open: making worlds, art and money http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-biennale-is-open-making-worlds-art-and-mo http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-biennale-is-open-making-worlds-art-and-mo txt: What recession? In Venice, party rolls on - www.boston.com
With the art world supposedly in crisis - prices dropping, profits of auction houses plummeting, museums engaged in drastic cost-cutting - a provocation like this might hit a nerve. But instead the video has passed largely unnoticed, and the art world has gone on doing what it does best: partying, partying, and more partying.
txt: Venice Biennale opens to public - BBC news
"The Venice Biennale is not here to be loved, it's here to be discussed. And if people keep coming back to discuss it, that's the best result that we can have" Mr Birnbaum says. [...] Whatever else, the Biennale offers an unprecedented opportunity to see vast amounts of modern art in one of the world's most historic cities.
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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:51:31 -0700 Punta della Dogana: the medium is the message http://oddtag.posterous.com/punta-della-dogana-the-medium-is-the-message http://oddtag.posterous.com/punta-della-dogana-the-medium-is-the-message txt: How the French Charles Saatchi became the merchant of Venice - www.guardian.co.uk
The good thing about the recession is that we will now be able to concentrate on art, on what matters. The bullshit we had to deal with before is over.
video: Time Lapses - Punta della Dogana and Tadao Ando - PalazzoGrassiTV on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWfu0IqivrE]

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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:27:15 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Liam Gillick http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-liam-gillick http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-liam-gillick txt: Venice Biennale: Navigating the "Grande Confusione" - nytimes.com
You immediately know you’re in trouble when a very polite attendant at the Giardini, the public gardens that serve as one of the event’s main sites, tells you “go talk-a to the box, please,” and the box turns out to be a tiny office called the Organizing Secretariat. Here, petitioners stand with their arms crossed in long lines, waiting to plead, in seventeen different languages, to people behind glass, who are very hard to hear and who mostly shrug their shoulders and smile and say no.
video: Liam Gillick - La Biennale di Venezia 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EVR_39KyQ]

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:35:06 -0700 Venice and art in the age of globalization http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-and-art-in-the-age-of-globalization http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-and-art-in-the-age-of-globalization I was drinking a spritz in campo Santa Barnaba while I noticed a man with a white band on the head with a red write: "biennalist". I didn't know him, he didn't know me. I discover now he actually was Thierry Geoffroy (www.emergencyrooms.org). That is Venice theese days: biennale art market vernissages bellini. And something of new and unknown. links: www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html BIENNALIST Facebook group EMERGENCY ROOM and BIENNALIST at the VENICE BIENNALE Facebook group video: Daniel Birnbaum talks about art in the age of globalization - biennalechannel on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuLaZnE8jiI]

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:35:12 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-the-swimming-cities-of-s http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-the-swimming-cities-of-s Yesterday was a "no-photo-no-video-no-nothing" day. Just walking on small paths aside the lagoon. Laying on the beach. But coming back on the vaporetto we saw an adventure getting his happy end: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima fleet was approaching the Arsenale area. Welcome to Venice! txt: The Swimming Cities of Serenissima - about
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Litoral region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). SWOON’s boats are inspired by dense urban cityscapes and thickly intertwined mangrove swamps from her Florida youth. The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are built from salvaged materials, including modified Mercedes car motors with long-tail propellers. The boats’ crew is made up of 30 collaborating artists from the United States.
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Sun, 31 May 2009 05:23:47 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: collateral events and other venues map http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-collateral-events-and-ot http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-collateral-events-and-ot The Oddtag map of other venues and collateral events of the 53° Venice Art Biennale 2009 on Google Maps (an in progress mash-up of video, images and Google maps) UPDATE: Iceland pavilion and Mercury House One _ Save the Poetry videos Ok, the Venice Biennale exhibition venues are the Palazzo delle Esposizioni and the national pavilions at the Giardini, as well as the Corderie, the Artiglierie and other venues at the Arsenale. But a lot of VERY interesting venues and events are disseminated all over Venice from 7th June to 22nd November 2009. Probably it's not the most important, famous, visible side of the Biennale. But I feel that it's the best part: have fun discovering Venice places and palazzi and artists and people. I'll be around in the next months making photos, videos, and posts. Hope to see you! View a Larger Map on the Google maps page [googlemaps http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=1004376770...,12.332497&spn=0.029391,0.055275&output=embed&w=500&h=400]

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Sun, 31 May 2009 03:56:07 -0700 Venice biennale 2009: SubTiziano http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-subtiziano http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-subtiziano txt: Alexandre Ponomarev: SubTiziano - RNA Foundation
Former submariner Alexandre Ponomarev did some reverse engineering: he snuck into that secret and closed area, reclaiming the deadly weapon as an art object. With the aid of chromatism, he transformed a submarine into a medium of artistic interaction, stripping it of its main advantage: secrecy.
Alexandre Ponomarev - SubTiziano Dates:  June 4 – October 22, 2009 Locations: Ca' Bernardo, Dipartamento di Americanistica, Iberistica e Slavistic dell'Universita di Ca' Foscari - Dorsoduro, 3199, Venezia; Ca' Rezzonico, Fondamenta Rezzonico - Dorsoduro, 3136, Venezia. video: Oleg Chubykin - "The Tourist" on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2272285]

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Thu, 28 May 2009 19:49:32 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Guyton/Walker http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-guytonwalker http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-guytonwalker txt: At Carpenter Center, Empire Strikes Back - Harvard Gazette
Paint leaks through the wooden frames of canvases. Ketel One vodka ads can be glimpsed through the clutter. Inside it becomes clear that what you're looking at are the politically charged installations of Guyton/Walker, the Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The exhibit is called "Guyton/Walker: Empire Strikes Back" and is on display through April 20 [2006]. The disturbing, colorful, eclectic pieces by the collaborative dynamic duo Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have been called perverse still-lifes. Aptly so.
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Mon, 18 May 2009 16:37:34 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Chu Yun http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-chu-yun http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-chu-yun Chu Yun , born in Jiangxi, China, 1977 - Lives and works in Shenzhen. txt: "They Are Growing, Entering Into People ' s Lives" (2006)
Pairs of trees, planted 1.2 meters apart from each other, distributed among the office area, residential area, and production area of the Siemens VDO (Huizhou) Company ' s new factory complex. Perhaps my description of this work can only go that far.
video: “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the NEW MUSEUM - James Kalm on vimeo [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4080026]

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Fri, 15 May 2009 19:37:56 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: David Bestué, Marc Vives http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-david-bestue-marc-vives http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-david-bestue-marc-vives Spanish Pavillion David Bestué born in Barcelona, Spain, 1980 Marc Vives born in Barcelona, Spain, 1978 They live and work in Barcelona txt: Bestué / Vives: Cisnes y Ratas - vernissage.tv on youtube
In La Confirmación, Bestué / Vives invite the visitors to tour a film set with different scenes that only make sense when they watch a video at the end of the installation. Acciones en el Universo is also a journey, a tour through different rooms a arranged like a tunnel of horrors that is meant to disorient visitors and invite them to participate in the most ambitious project of all, to intervene in the Universe itself.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 03:22:35 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Turkey http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-turkey http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-turkey "Lapses" - Artists: Banu Cennetoglu, Ahmet Ogut - Curator: Basak Senova txt: Lapses - www.venicebiennial-turkey.org
In this context, "Lapses" consists of projects that demonstrate how the perception of "occurring events" can vary and lead to differing narrations of history because of lapses in collective memory - which is composed both by the media and by other surrounding environmental data.
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Wed, 13 May 2009 20:22:24 -0700 Venice Biennale 2009: Estonia http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-estonia http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-2009-estonia KRISTINA NORMAN After-War Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3079, Venezia txt: "After-War" at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia - Center for Contemporary art Estonia
Using the concept of a memory community, Kristina Norman describes and analyses past events and proposes subsequent cultural practice. The title of the work "After-War" is a reference to the idea that the war is over, but the conflict still continues.
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