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'The Knowledge' - a project for the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011 The Gervasuti Foundation, Fondamenta S.Ana, Via Garibaldi , Castello 995, 30122 Venice, Nearest Vaporetto stop Giardini Participating Artists: Shih Chieh Huang, Tim Brennan, Mat Chivers, Nancy Fouts, Conrad Shawcross, Chiharu Shiota. Curator - James Putnam, Assistant Curator Eiko Honda The participating artists have created a series of dynamic sit-specific installation and pefrormance works that reflect the current tendency to link artistic practice with scientific principles. Nowadays scientific knowledge is regarded as empirical and statistical in character, which stands in direct contrast to its older metaphysical aspects. In the 17th century enquiries into nature were referred to both as 'natural philosophy' and 'natural science'- the term scientia derives the word 'science', meaning 'knowledge'. The origin of knowledge is wonder while both art and science have had common beginnings being united by the feeling of wonder they evoke.'The Knowledge' aims to stimulate curiosity in the viewer and includes works that play on our attraction to the wondrous and our inherent curiosity about how things work. LINK: http://www.gervasutifoundation.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl18VRguyJY (Tim Brennan performance) |
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'Memory of Books' – Chiharu Shiota - Venice Biennale, 2011 2 June -15 September, 2011, 10am -6pm daily except Mondays The Gervasuti Foundation, Fondamenta S.Ana, Via Garibaldi , Castello 995, 30122 Venice, Nearest Vaporetto stop Giardini Chiharu Shiota has created an evocative installation by suspending countless strands of black wool from the walls, floors and ceilings of the space.This giant web through which visitors must find their way, envelops the hundreds of books that Shiota found stored there as part of the Foudation's library. It criss-crosses the space forming a visible network that connects a simple reading table and chair, arrangements of books and loose pages, together with the surrounding room. Memory is essentially the retention of accumulated knowledge in this case symbolized by the books, the information they contain and the lives of their past readers. Links:http://www.chiharu-shiota.com http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/#page=home.artists.chiharu_shiota |
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'Tim Noble & Sue Webster Present Bo Ningen' -Performing Live for the opening of 'The Knowledge',at the Venice Biennale, 2011
Specially created animation by Tim Noble and Sue Webster with assistance from Scarlett Carlos Clarke to accompany live perfomance by experimental Japanese band Bo Ningen 1 June 2011
LINKS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLL1_YT1QDU |
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'Wonderland' – New Art from London, 2010 'Wonderland' features works by 15 London based artists at the innovative Assab One project space in Milan. Wonder is one of the most fundamental aspects of aesthetic experience. It relates to the powers of thought, feeling, imagination and creativity. As the title suggests this show is intended to evoke a magical realm that proclaims a universe of fertile imaginative possibilities. Wonderment generates an enlarged perception, a freshness of feeling and a general aura of optimism. Participating Artists: Alice Anderson, Sam Buxton, Oliver Clegg, Shezad Dawood, Nancy Fouts, Tom Gallant, Stephane Graff, Henry Hudson, Bridget Hugo, Alastair Mackie, Polly Morgan, Boo Saville, Martin Sexton, Jamie Shovlin, Hugo Wilson 27 March - 14 May, 2010 Assab One , Via Assab 1, 20132, Milano tel. +39 02 28288546 |
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Luftskipet' - a project for Fjell, (nr. Bergen) Norway, 2010 The inaugural exhibition for Luftskipet, a mobile contemporary art gallery designed by Magne Wiggen of MMW Architects 10 April, 2010
LINKS http://www.mmw.no
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Miroslaw Balka - The Freud Museum/White Cube Gallery Date TBA Link:- |
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