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Scotland+Venice Diaries: Chewing the Scenery
Halfway through our stay – oh how time marches on – and all is andando alla grande! Things continue to tick over nicely in the exhibition, with many happy visitors to note.
The exciting news is that we’ve managed to bag ourselves tickets for the opening film at this year’s Venice Film Festival, The Ides of March; an American political drama starring George Clooney. So stay posted for exclusive thumbs up (or down) on that one!
On the art front, the best thing we’ve come across recently is the Swiss collateral exhibition (in addition to their pavilion in the Giardini, with work by Thomas Hirschhorn) – Chewing the Scenery. Located in and around Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and curated by Andrea Thal, the exhibition is an ongoing collaborative project between a variety of artists, writers and actors – all centred (loosely speaking) around the concepts of theatre staging and “dramaturgy”.
The show contains a large film installation by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz entitled, No Future and No Past, which runs alongside a terrific performance piece by Tim Zulauf/KMUProduktionen. This work – Devieare - Vier Aganten - Part of a Movie – consists of an actor attempting to act out an ambiguous narrative under the direction of three others. The events and sound spill out from the theatre onto the waterfront and surrounding alleyways, in a bizarre mix of reality and fiction.
For more in-depth information, including the publication, you can find a PDF here.
That’s all for now! Ciao,
Alex
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Add a comment »Great stuff, hoping to catch the exhibition in october when we're back visiting the in-laws, we got lost trying to find you back in june. We only managed the arsenale then, still got a day in the giardini waiting for us in october...
Posted by | Thursday September 2011 @ 15:10
Report to moderatorHow odd... on here a couple of weeks back (re Island Hopping article) I asked about the giant, permanent, advertising hoardings disfiguring some of the most iconic buildings in Venice - and that you had not mentioned. I clicked on the link a couple of times since, but saw that there was no response to my comment. Now I find that that comment has 'disappeared'. If I click on my original link to the article and comment, Skinny tells me that the page "no longer exists". But I can still find the original article here. And now you have posted a subsequent article. Can you throw some light on this? Can you respond to my question about the non-mentioned hoardings? It's just all very odd.
Posted by | Monday September 2011 @ 21:15
Report to moderatorHi Escotregen. We had a bit of a renovation on the website about a week ago. We transferred all of the articles from the old site onto the new one, but unfortunately lost some of the comments on the Blogs on the way over. Sorry about that – if you could repost your comment here that would be great.
Posted by | Tuesday September 2011 @ 09:51
Report to moderatorRosamund thanks for the offer of replacement, but I won't have kept a copy of the (fairly lengthy) piece... I suppose the moment has gone anyway. But I still think that Venice's giant hoardings stink as a piece of civiv & corporate vandalism, and ought to be catigated as such.
Posted by | Wednesday September 2011 @ 12:15
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