La Biennale di Venezia: Stegreif-Reise im Sommer 2022
Der Lehrstuhl AGT bietet dieses Semester wieder einen Stegreif (B.Sc und M.Sc) nach Venedig zur 59. Biennale di Venezia an:
Une chasse aux rumeurs – the city as a rumour mill – die Stadt als Küche der Geräusche – geroezemoes in de stad – pettegolezzi zvonurile
A Venice workshop 29 August to 03 September 2022, Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione del Belgio, Giardini
This year the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents the work of artist Francis Alÿs. The space is inhabited by a series of videos taking the visitors to situations in places as distinct as Mexico, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Hong Kong and Switzerland, among others. They show children performing and playing games: flying a kite in the street, hiding and seeking in abandoned buildings, jumping ropes on top of a roof terrace, rolling down a hill inside a tire.
The videos, as well as the paintings presented in the pavilion, involve the artist's displacement around the world, a registration of how the urban (or non-urban) locations become spaces of performance and creativity. Rules are set and followed, communicated in words or gestures. Associations are formed and dissolved. Few words are spoken, but permanent movements and noises derive from action, establishing various forms of communication between people and with the surroundings. The movement of the players in a deserted town is silent, and the silence has a precise acoustic presence. A swarm of mosquitos creates a buzz that attracts children's attention in Tabacongo, DRC, but also fills the space of the pavilion in Venice.
The pavilion is a site in itself, with its spatial and acoustic realities. It is set in a garden - a public space and, yet, not quite, as an entrance fee is charged. The city outside the limits of the "Giardini" is a landscape and soundscape itself, a rumour mill, a projection plane of noises, movements, and possibilities for play. Through its particular features, it mumbles to its inhabitants and visitors, inspiring them to produce stories and create new meanings that might be provisional and yet, are all the more powerful tacit forms of communication and builders of sense and community.
What are the possible connections between presence, absence, imagination and the spaces in the work of Francis Alÿs? This workshop engages with the Belgian pavilion and the Young Curators Programme, an initiative designed to expose emerging Belgium-based curators, taking the videos of Francis Alÿs as a departing point to think about the experience of the space, the exhibition context and the examination of the city as creative opportunities.
29 August
18.00 welcome to Venice. Meeting point Punta della Dogana
30 August
10.00 – 11.00 Meeting Young Curator Programme fellows, curators Arno Huygens and Badia Larouci. Presentation and discussion of workshop assignment, Campo San Francesco della Vigna
11.00 – 11.30 Forming working groups
11.00 – 18.00 group work in the city
18.00 report meeting, Park Viale Vittorio Veneto, Sant’ Elena
31 August
10.00 meeting the pavilion (with the curators), Giardini (outside the Belgian pavilion)
11.30 – 18.00 site work Biennale
18.00 report meeting, Park Viale Vittorio Veneto, Sant’ Elena
1 September
10.00 – 18.00 site work Biennale and group work
18.00 report meeting, Sala F Giardini (tbc)
2 September
10.00 group work, preparing a presentation
14.00 presentation and discussion, Sala F Giardini
17.00 apéro
3 September
site visit and excursion to Vicenza
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