16.-19.9.2024, Venezia incl. Biennale Arte, Kentridge, (Beat) poetry

Biennale Arte 2024, 20.4.-24.11 2024, www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024: 60th International Art Exhibition: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere“. Sede Giardini / Giardini venue; Sede Arsenale / Arsenale venue.

Adriano Pedrosa (curator): “Artists have always traveled and moved about through cities, countries and continents. The Biennale Arte 2024’s primary focus is … artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, émigrés, exiled, or refugees”.

Brochure: „This Biennale Arte … hosts samples of marginalised, excluded, oppressed beauty, erased by the dominant matrices of geo-thinking. The interlacing themes … – the different, the foreigner, the journey, integration – will reverberate nowhere better than in the … ever-renewed waters of the lagoon city. Once again Venice – over the centuries an open cradle of knowledge and communication between peoples, ethnicities, religions – is the natural forum in which to marshal new points of view …“

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National participations, www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/national-participations:

• USA, Jeffrey Gibson: „the space in which to place me“ …
• Germany: Thresholds. www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/germany: „Every moment is a threshold between the vanishing past and an unclear future. This … applies equally to everyone. For those affected by migration, however, it is a fundamental three-dimensional and bodily experience … the German contribution explores history and the future in three scenarios … the contribution engages in building a bridge to another location outside the Giardini: the island of La Certosa. Here the artists Michael Akstaller, Nicole L’Huillier, Robert Lippok, and Jan St. Werner create a resonant space with works that focus on the significance of the moment of temporal and spatial transition …

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In parallel to the Biennale: William Kentridge: Self-portrait as a coffe-pot. An exhibition curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev at Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice. www.arsenale.com/downloads/AI_Web_material_Kentridge/AI_2024_Booklet_Kentridge.pdf: „This series of nine, thirty-minute episodes, is an experiment in embodiment and phenomenological experience in the digital age, and a reflection on what might happen in the brain and in the studio of an artist today. Filming of the series began during the first lockdown of the 2020–22 COVID-19 pandemic in Kentridge’s Johannesburg studio and continued in its aftermath …“ e.g.: Episode 4, Finding one’s fate; Episode 5, As if; Episode 6, Harvest of devotion.

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Bill Morgan (2015): The Beats abroad. City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, p.59: „In the fall of 1954, … Alan Ansen …decided to settle in Venice … He hosted many of the Beats and introduced them to his Venice friends … (p.60) Ansen was living in the the top-floor apartment at 3219 Calle Carrozze … 1957 … Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky … arrived in Venice for a visit … Ansen was mortified when Ginsberg and Orlovsky argued at a dinner given for Peggy Guggenheim and began tossing a wet towel back and forth across the table … This got Allen and Peter blackballed from Guggenheim’s company… Ansen … composed … The return from Greece, to celebrate Peggy Guggenheim’s sixty-first birthday … It was performed … at her palazzo … now the Peggy Guggenheim collection Dorsoduro, 701 … (p.61) In … 1967 Allen Ginsberg went to Venice for the sole purpose of visiting … Ezra Pound … Pond’s house at 252 Calle Querini … In 1995 Ginsberg was back in Venice again, … for the opening of an exhibition of his photography displayed at the Venice Biennial …

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Venice and ist Lagoon, https://unescoworld.com/heritage/venice-and-its-lagoon/: „Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works by some of the world’s greatest artists …“