Venetian Blind: Optical Allusions
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posted on 2019-05-08, 00:00 authored by Simon GrennanSimon Grennan, Sarah Neville, Lienors TorreLienors Torre, Anne WilsonAnne WilsonVenetian Blind: Optical Allusions
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Location
Palazzo BemboStart date
2019-09-01End date
2019-11-24Language
engNotes
Eexhibition attached to Venice Biennale. 8 May until 24 November 2019Research statement
Research Background Venetian Blind: Optical Allusions was a collaborative art project exhibited at the Palazo Bembo, as part of the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures exhibition in Venice. This exhibition– a combination of installation, drawing, animation and performance was one of a number of collateral events associated with the 58th Venice Biennale. Optical Allusions is contextualised within the Venetian Blind Project in which the Public Art Commission designed six separate “provocations” for six groups of artist collaborators. This research project is the outcome of the 4th provocation in this sequence. Research Contribution The group produced two major works and a web site which featured a range of related creative investigations and experiments. Each work explored a number of interrelated themes prompted by the provocation including Venice’s architectural legacy, its political machinations, optical inventions, scientific revolutions, and precarious current circumstances. Research Significance The works make a contribution to the Venetian Blind Project but also more broadly to research methodologies in contemporary art practices. In particular the work produces new creative outcomes through a synthesis of cross-disciplinary techniques deriving from film, animation, drawing, the ready-made, and performance. These outcomes in turn extend conversations around object-based animation, drawing as performance, and the relationships between image technologies and embodiment.Publication classification
J2 Minor original creative workEvent
Venetian Blind. European Cultural Centre 's Personal Structures Exhbition (2019 : Palazzo Bembo, Venice)Publisher
European Cultural Centre Gallery, VenicePlace of publication
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.Usage metrics
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