Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale
dal 6/6/2007 al 20/11/2007
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Australia Council for the Arts
6/6/2007
Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale
Tre Sedi 2, Venezia
Susan Norrie explores the issues of a changing world in a video installation focusing on man-made interventions and seismic disturbances that have brought devastation to areas of East Java. Daniel von Sturmer presents a multimedia installation in which video projections and objects are brought together atop a long plywood platform. Callum Morton's "Valhalla" is a ruined building where lifts light up and malfunction, screams are heard, seismic shudders are felt, and muzak soothes.
3 artists, 3 projects, 3 sites
Commissioner: John Kaldor / Senior Curatorial Advisor: Juliana Engberg
Susan Norrie
Susan Norrie explores the pervasive geopolitical issues of a changing world in her three room video installation at Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. HAVOC focuses on man-made interventions and seismic disturbances that have wrought devastation to areas of East Java. She documents the resilience of a people confronting disaster, as well as the broader social changes occurring within a culture.
Daniel von Sturmer
The Object of Things is a multimedia installation created specially for the Australian Pavilion. In The Object of Things video projections and objects are brought together atop a long plywood platform, a continuous floating plane which folds into, over, around and through the pavilion space, shifting heights and direction as it goes.
Callum Morton
Valhalla, at Palazzo Zenobio, is a ruined building, Morton’s childhood home: ‘torched, sutured together and shot through with holes … A monument to all those skeletal structures left dangling after disaster strikes’. The modern dream home, designed by his architect father, is reconstructed to 3/4 scale in Venice, but is no ordinary ruin. Visitors enter an immaculate interior space, a corporate cavity where lifts light up and malfunction, screams are heard, seismic shudders are felt, and muzak soothes.
The Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council has managed and funded Australian representation since 1978. Previous Australian representatives at the Venice Biennale include Judy Watson, Howard Arkley, Lyndal Jones, Patricia Piccinini and Ricky Swallow.
Susan Norrie is represented by Mori Gallery; Daniel von Sturmer is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery; Callum Morton is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Susan Norrie, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, opposite Accademia
Opening: 6.30pm, Thursday 7th June
Daniel von Sturmer, Australian Pavilion, Giardini
Opening: 11am, Thursday 7th June
Callum Morton, Palazzo Zenobio, near Campo Santa Margherita
Opening: 7.30pm Wednesday 6th June
For further information:
venice2007@ozco.gov.au