Venetian Bind Group 1
Venetian Bind Group 1
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Palazzo BemboStart date
2024-05-09End date
2024-11-22Language
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Installation of sculptural objects (Salamander and the Blue man) and videoResearch statement
Background This work is part of a larger collaborative project, Venetian Bind, devised by Melbourne academics, Cameron Bishop and David Cross. The curatorial design deployed small, ‘randomised’, cross-disciplinary teams working from separate creative briefs (or ‘binds’) under intensive time pressures. These key creative constraints generated opportunities for practice-led researchers to make socially engaged yet highly improvised art in situ. The project is influenced by Harney and Desideri’s notion of the “undercommons” in which artistic practice and research is reconceived as a way of being that is improvised, unplannable, collective, unregulated, and fugitive. Contribution Team#1 adopted an essentially absurdist approach to its curatorial premise as both an art-making strategy and a critical position. This position embraced the inherent paradox of visiting a site to respond to problems caused by over-visitation to that site. Hence Team#1’s response posed the fundamental question: how can visiting artists make a positive impact on social and environmental issues when they are also incriminated in those issues? Our thesis suggests that while art and art tourism is deeply implicated within Venice’s current challenges, it is also the reason why the world remains intensely invested in Venice’s preservation and future thriving. Significance This body of sculptural, sound, and video works were conceived and exhibited at the Palazzo Bembo in Venice Italy as part of the European Cultural Centre’s (ECC) Personal Structures exhibition program. As a collateral event of the 2024 Venice Biennale, the exhibition program was attended by approximately 553,000 visitors across the seven months of the Biennale. Additionally the exhibition received significant international media coverage (data from ECC). As the first of 6 teams selected, ours was critical in publicly launching Venetian Bind and providing a material presence for the official opening.Extent
1 sculptural installation 1 videoEditor/Contributor(s)
DeLandre D, Elliot-Ryan HEvent
Ventetian Bind, Personal Structures ExhibitionPublisher
European Cultural Centre, Personal Structures ExhibitionPlace of publication
Venice, ItalySeries
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