Category Archives: People

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-23 12:14:12. Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. Representing Sweden at the 56th Biennale di Venezia 2015, she has compiled a group of works and documents describing a migration between utopia and collapse,…

UTTER: The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-23 10:17:01. “UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope”, a new project by JAŠA, representing Slovenia at the 56th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition. The project’s title embraces the very core of JAŠA’s aim to create an artwork as both a poetic stance and…

Sean Lynch – Adventure: Capital, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 21:06:19. The Irish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – presents a new artwork by Sean Lynch titled “Adventure: Capital”. Sean Lynch’s work “As a transcendental journey through history and myth, from the Gobán Saor to castaway minimalist sculpture. Lynch’s ethnographic…

Heri Dono: Voyage trokomod, Indonesia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-21 09:05:43. The Indonesia pavilion is themed “Trokomod”. conveys the expectations of all historically dominated cultures to be granted equal room and recognition. Myths, legends and folk tales infuseDono’s imagination. Recently he joked:“I am Semar, considered a clown, but inmy former life I was a dinosaurus.” Heri Dono,…

Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word, United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Originally posted 2020-04-18 06:37:41. For the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, the MIT List Visual Arts Center commissioned Joan Jonas, a pioneering figure in video and performance art, to create a new multimedia installation that occupied the entirety of the U.S. Pavilion’s five galleries. The installation…