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Venetian Bind

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Venetian Bind

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Location

Pelazzo Mora, Venice

Start date

2024-06-28

End date

2024-10-25

Language

eng

Research statement

Background “Venetian Bind” was the second iteration of a large collaborative project based in Venice. Associate Professor Cameron Bishop and Professor David Cross curated 24 Deakin researchers and HDR candidates to produce multi-disciplinary artworks in response to six place-specific provocations, each of which responded to the history, culture, architecture, environment and people of Venice. A subsequent exhibition of the project and publication will be produced for Deakin Art Gallery in 2025. The project was initiated by the research group, Public Exchange Bureau under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts and Education. Contribution As a curated project I was asked to collaborate with colleagues and HDR students on a project that looked at Venice as a site from which to discuss and make work about issues such as environmental sustainability and water, given the geographic proximity of the city. As part of the EOI researchers were asked for a creative response to a “provocation, a demonstrated ability to respond to a curatorial brief, and to select a range of different disciplinary areas in the creative arts.” We were given a prompt to examine maritime history in Venice, thus sent to the Maritime Museum. Significance The Venetian Bind Specific prompts, issued by the curators, initiated a “site-specific” approach to the creation of work that addressed immediacy, both actually and metaphysically. Clearly the significance of such a project might not be evident immediately, but visitation alone would be huge. As a site-specific project, the creative response embodied numerous socio-political issues specific to Venice, yet also of global concern. On this occasion the collective spirit, and the spectre of Art Povera united to create a work seemingly abstract yet loaded with symbolism.

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JO1 Original Creative Works – Visual Art Work

Event

Venetian Bind. Exhbition (2024 : Pelazzo Mora, Venice, Italy)

Publisher

Deakin University

Place of publication

Geelong, Vic.

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