WPS1 Venice Biennale 2005As of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site for live broadcasts from the 2007 Venice Biennale. ART RADIO BROADCASTS LIVE FROM THE 52ND VENICE BIENNALE TUNE IN FOR 24 HOUR LIVE PROGRAMMING FROM JUNE 4 THROUGH JUNE 10, 2007 Art Radio WPS1.org makes its second extraordinary appearance at the Venice Biennale and will moor its Broadcast Barge---a floating broadcast station, Internet hub, lushly furnished lounge and catered party headquarters--- at the entrance to the Giardini, near the Monumento della Partigiana. The si x day live broadcast on Art Radio WPS1.org, the Web radio project of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, will be the exclusive site for up-to-the-minute i nternational news, culture, and gossip as it unfolds at the most anticipated art event of the year. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Agnès B. - listen | listen with RealPlayer One of P.S.1's dearest friends, the anti-trend, anti-hype queen of understated Parisian chic, Agnès B. sits down with Alanna Heiss in our floating broadcast lounge. After her study at Versailles's Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Agnès Trouble became a junior editor at the French Elle magazine. She then continued her work by assisting Doroth?e Bis, and freelancing for companies such as Limitex, Pierre d'Alby, V de V and Eversbin. In 1975, she established the first Agnès B. Boutique at Les Halles Paris. Agnès B. now has 118 stores in 10 countries. And no advertising. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Raul Carillo - listen | listen with RealPlayer Alanna Heiss at the table with Mr. Jose Raul Carrillo, who holds the position of Coordinator of Special Events at the University of the Virgin Islands. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: The China Pavilion - listen | listen with RealPlayer Alanna Heiss hosts a spirited and fascinating bilingual discussion with artists and officials from the China Pavilion, which was organized and sponsored by the Chinese government. From artist/curator Cai Guo-Qiang's statement: There is a 110-year gap between the induction of the China pavilion and the establishment of the first national pavilion in the Venice Biennale. Hence, this selection of artists is essentially an investigation into the nature of national pavilions and, in the context of a multinational arena, how to represent the inaugural China pavilion in 2005 or any national pavilion in the 21st century. Guests:
Fan Di'an, Commissioner, China Pavilion
Cai Guo-Qiang, Curator, China Pavilion
Jennifer Ma, Exhibition Coordinator
Xu Zhen, artist
Liu Wei, artist
Yung Ho Chang, artist
Peng Yu, artist
Sun Yuan, artist
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: RoseLee Goldberg - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1 conscripted the young multinational curator Gea Politi (Prague Biennale) into our team of roving reporters. In this interview she orders espresso on the boat with art historian and critic RoseLee Goldberg. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Guerrilla Girls - listen | listen with RealPlayer In full regalia of course, nom de guerillas Frida Kahlo, Kathe Kollwitz and Rose O'Neill sat down with our Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin. They didn't sink us, but there was turbulence. Since 1985 the Guerrilla Girls have been reinventing the "F" word--feminism--and exposing sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. For the exhibition in Venice, Always a Little Further, curated by Rosa Martinez, they installed six 17-foot movie-style posters, taking on the Biennale itself, the museums of Venice, and other issues large, larger and largest... |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Joan Jonas and Joan Simon - listen | listen with RealPlayer The Joans hold a co-interview in the WPS1 broadcast barge lounge. Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video/performance art. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s were essential to the development of contemporary art in many genres--from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Her most recent work continues to explore the relationship of new digital media to performance.Jonas has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2000. Joan Simon is a writer, curator, editor, and arts administrator based in Paris, France, who has worked independently for museums, foundations and publishers in the United States and in Europe. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Helena Kontova and Flash Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer Gea Politi interviews Helena Kontova in the WPS1 floating radio lounge. Kontova (born in Prague, works in Milan) has been an editor and later Editor in Chief of Flash Art International. In 2004 she founded and now heads a private art foundation in Prague, Nadace PragueBiennale. (10 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: John Latham - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss in a gentle and ever-spiraling conversation during the Biennale with British painter, sculptor, conceptual artist, performance artist, video and film maker John Latham (1921-2006). Latham is represented in a collateral project for the 2005 Biennale by the installation, God is Great. Since the 1940s, John Latham has initiated a wide range of art movements beginning with a least-mark approach to form. This led to a shift, from conventional spatial thinking to an event based frame of reference since called assemblage, performance, structural film and video, installation, and the idea of context as half the work -- from the Mattress Factory site. John Latham: Time Base and the Universe is on view at P.S.1 from October 29, 2006 through January 8, 2007. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Jay Levenson, Robert Lion, Alexandre Melo - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Tony Guerrero sits down with some high level VIP guests on the lower deck for a global view with: Jay Levenson, (Director, Internation Program at the Museum of Modern Art) Robert Lion (French Art Minister and President, Association Francaise d'Action Artistique) Alexandre Melo (curator and cultural advisor to Prime Minister of Portugal) (26 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Michael Craig-Martin - listen | listen with RealPlayer Alanna Heiss in a discussion with the artist. Born in Dublin in 1941, Michael Craig-Martin studied at Yale University School of Art and Architecture in the early 1960s, but has spent most of his working life in Great Britain. (7 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: The Massimos - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin interview two men who assisted WPS1 in Italy, our experts on the ground: Massimo Ongaro, Artistic Director, Risonanze performance series at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice and Massimo Simonini, composer and Artistic Director of Angelica, a new music festival and record label in Bologna. Simonini also provided a faux radio show mix made special for our Biennale broadcast, Venice Love Boat Venice. |
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WPS1 Venice interviews: Annette Messager - listen | listen with RealPlayer Alanna Heiss sits down with artist Annette Messager in WPS1's booth onboard the Fusina. Messager's Casino at the French Pavilion won the Golden Lion award. One of the most important contemporary artists working in Europe, Annette Messager fragments images and language to explore the concept of fiction, the dialogue between individual and collective identity, and the social issues of normalcy, morality, and the role of women. In her work she forcefully illustrates the idea that all things -- a child's beloved toy, a photograph, a piece of embroidery, a word with seemingly unambiguous meaning -- can be transformed into objects of potent expression. - from www.the-artists.org. |
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WPS1 Venice: History of Women in the Biennale - listen | listen with RealPlayer Historian Linda Nochlin is welcomed to the table by WPS1's Alanna Heiss and Jen DeNike for a discussion. Linda Nochlin teaches art history at New York University. Her book, Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art (1730-1970), is considered a significant contribution to the field of art history and criticism. Nochlin is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of New York University's Institute for the Humanities. She has served as a professor of art at Yale University, City University in New York (CUNY), and Vassar College. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Achille Bonito Oliva - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1 Executive Director Alanna Heiss with her "dear enemy" Achille Bonito Oliva, one of the world's most highly regarded critics of contemporary art. He is the promoter of a new creative model for art criticism and has authored definitive works on Mannerism, the classic avant garde and neo-avant garde art movements. He directed the 45th Venice Biennale. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Julia Peyton-Jones of Serpentine Gallery - listen | listen with RealPlayer Alanna Heiss and Klaus Biesenbach of P.S.1 talk to the Serpentine Gallery's Director, Julia Peyton-Jones. The London gallery explores different ways of working with architects and exhibiting architecture through the commissioning and construction each year of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions. (7 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Susan Philipsz - listen | listen with RealPlayer Peter Coffin and Jen DeNike in a conversation with the fascinating sound and installation artist Susan Philipsz. Much of her work has consisted of smuggling her disembodied and unaccompanied singing voice into various public and municipal locations where it's restrained melancholia might insinuate itself most effectively into the consciousness of an unexpectant public, to an unpredictable variety of effects.-from a very good description of a hard to describe work atsparwasserhq. (10 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: John Pilson - listen | listen with RealPlayer Jen DeNike speaks with John Pilson. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Michelangelo Pistoletto - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, who had a whole island in Venice for his installation, in an onboard discussion with P.S.1 Directors Alanna Heiss and Tony Guerrero. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Ed Ruscha, Gary Garrels - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist Ed Ruscha (The American Pavilion) and curator Gary Garrels (MoMA, the Hammer Museum) in the WPS1 lower deck lounge with Alanna Heiss and our roving artist/reporters Jen DeNike, Peter Coffin and Justin Lowe. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Robert Storr - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Althea Viafora-Kress moves her Collector's Forum to Venice and invites curator Robert Storr onboard. Storr is the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, where he teaches the history of Modern Art. Prior to this appointment, Storr was senior curator in the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Storr was curator of many notable MoMA exhibitions, including Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting in the Spring of 2002, and Projects, a series of exhibitions from 1991-2000 devoted to the work of contemporary artists. |
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WPS1 Venice Interviews: Public Art at the Biennale - listen | listen with RealPlayer Peter Coffin talks about public art at the Biennale with Irish, British, and Scottish artists: Mel Jordan and Andy Hewitt (artists from Sheffield) Gavin Wade (artist/curator from Birmingham) Christina Kennedy (Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, Head of Exhibitions) Susan Philipsz (artist from Glasgow, Berlin) (15 minutes) |
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The Life Aquatic: Carlton DeWoody and Martabel Wasserman - listen | listen with RealPlayer Daily Biennale news and gossip with Jen DeNike and Lumi Tan, with guests artist/musician Carlton DeWoody and artist Martabel Wasserman. |
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Tony's Talent Search: The Commons Service Group - listen | listen with RealPlayer Heather Anderson, Jerome Grand, and Julia Maiear -- The Commons Service Group representatives -- discussed and displayed their views and strategies for a GATS Free Zone (international tariffs on art and culture) with WPS1's Tony Guerrero. (15 minutes) |
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Tony's Talent Search: Jessica Craig-Martin and Yvonne Force - listen | listen with RealPlayer Finally, we found someone willing to dish! Tony Guerrero lets these women loose on the lower deck and they wind up dancing on the table...or something... With Jessica Craig-Martin (British artist whose photographs document parties of the rich and famous) and Yvonne Force (Mother Inc. and Fischerspooner) |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Louise Bourgeois sings - listen | listen with RealPlayer C'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante: In these recordings, produced by Brigitte Cornand, the artist Louise Bourgeois sings 22 short melodies and children's songs. Then, in a remix by Frederic Sanchez, the material is transformed into an electronic fantasy. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Because Tomorrow Comes #4 - listen | listen with RealPlayer A CD compilation out of Koln, Germany, Because Tomorrow Comes with works by Lary 7, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Bernard Gal, Maria De Alvear, Miki Yui, and Alvin Lucier. This forum and magazine for sound-art in the form of an audio CD. It compiles contributions from artists who have chosen for the acoustics as working field, starting from the visual aspect and going to the musical one, then trying to promote the reachings of their soundart. The final purpose is to present it as a listenable exhibition. --from the Forced Exposure review of the series. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Caged/Uncaged - listen | listen with RealPlayer From the CD (Cramps, CRSCD 097, out of print) created by P.S.1 for the 1993 Venice Biennale, in conjunction with Il Suono rapido delle cose, an exhibition of and tribute to the work of John Cage. The CD was produced by John Cale and curated by Lokke Highstein, with production in Italy organized by Fondazione Mudima. Il Suono Rapido delle Cose was presented at the XLV Venice Biennale from June 9 - October 10, 1993, Achille Bonito Oliva, General Curator. The exhibition was organized by Alanna Heiss, with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Angela Vettese and Ludovico Pratesi. Playlist
Cage and The Long Island Expressway and Enlightened Whistler - David Byrne
John Cage Excerpt #1 - John Cage
In Just-Spring - Debbie Harry
John Cage Excerpt #2 - John Cage
Proust - Arto Lindsay
John Cage Excerpt #3 - John Cage
John Cage Descending - Ars Hell and Mutt
John Cage Excerpt #4 - John Cage
Verlaine: Part 2 La Bleue - John Zorn
John Cage Excerpt #5 - John Cage
Right in the Head - Chris Stein
John Cage Excerpt #6 - John Cage
Dishwasher - Amy Denio
John Cage Excerpt #7 - John Cage
Cheap Imitation - David Weinstein and Shelley Hirsch
329 Overtones for John Cage - Lee Ranaldo
Helmut Newton Told Me, Wish You Were Here, Oh! To Be Invited to the Venice
Biennale - Ann Magnuson and John Cale
John Cage Excerpt #8 - John Cage
Overpopulation and Art - Jello Biafra and Eugene Chadbourne
John Cage Excerpt #9 - John cage
An excerpt from Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
inDET - Elliott Sharp
John Cage Excerpt #10 - John Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs - Joey Ramone
John Cage Excerpt #11 - John Cage
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Stan Douglas: Suspiria - listen | listen with RealPlayer John Medeski and MMW producer Scott Harding composed and recorded music for a complex video/art installation by Stan Douglas called Suspiria, based on the classic 1977 Italian horror film by Darrio Argento. All music written, arranged, and produced by the duo with the collaboration of Douglas. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Arnold Dreyblatt: The Orchestra of Excited Strings - listen | listen with RealPlayer Selections from two Arnold Dreyblatt CDs, The Adding Machine and Animal Magnetism. From a review in Dusted: A composer of stature, Dreyblatt has charted his own unique course in modern classical music. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists, his work with the Orchestra of Excited Strings does justice to the moniker, in as much as the paradox is even feasible. There is a driving force to The Adding Machine, with nods to blues and rock traditions, and melodic progression is evident throughout, if heavily syncopated. Still, tempo changes and stubborn breakbeats are primarily responsible for the shifting pace within the pieces, which could only sufficiently be described as joltingly ambient. The tone is militant but never abrasive, the seemingly rigid instrumental elements of the ensemble quickly giving way to the slipstream of their own ephemera in the manner of a lulling kaleidoscopic vision. (59 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Dennis Oppenheim: Six Tracks - listen | listen with RealPlayer Our thanks to artist Dennis Oppenheim and his studio for providing this soundtrack compilation. (28 minutes) |
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Africa Pavilion: Dola's Hip Hop Gallery - listen | listen with RealPlayer For the Venice Biennale broadcast, WPS1's Charlie Ahearn invited recording artist Balozi Dola to assemble a compilation of African Hip Hop. Our thanks to both of them. Playlist
Weird Mc - Ijo (Nigeria)
Knaan - Soobax (Somalia)
PNB - Lendo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Revoltod_Cubandog - Niggaz_d'lodescur
The P.A. (Panafricans) - We the People
Deplowmatz - Are U Down (Tanzania)
Balozi Dola - Kwenye Chati (Tanzania)
Mac D - Nilikupenda Sana (Tanzania)
Mr. Paul - Buzi (Tanzania)
Profesa J - Jina langu (Tanzania)
Rah P - Hayakuhusu (Tanzania)
Sugu feat. Balozi - Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Balozi - Kwenye Chati
Shiffai - Shaffai (Senegal)
Omzo - Misasalu Aduna (Senegal)
Black Mantu - Wasikaman (Zambia)
HardStone De Gal Dem need (Kenya)
Les Ecros - Kalan (Mali)
Tekezee - Godoba (South Africa)
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Justin Lowe Collection: Cabinessence - listen | listen with RealPlayer A mix by Mike Hajar. |
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Justin Lowe Collection: On the Beach - listen | listen with RealPlayer A mix by Saleem Dahmee. |
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Justin Lowe's Birthday: Passage - listen | listen with RealPlayer A mix by Tao Kostoff. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Colors for Breakfast - listen | listen with RealPlayer A morning music mix with Ken Nordine, Arling & Cameron, Baz Luhrman. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Music for Plants listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer A compilation assembled by Peter Coffin. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Terry Riley - listen | listen with RealPlayer Terry Riley, one of the founding fathers of American minimalist music, featured here with selections from several recordings from the '60s and '70s, including Shri Camel (organ in just intonation), You're Nogood (maybe the very first serious pop sample usage), and Music from The Gift (incredibly, with Chet Baker). |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Venice Love Boat Venice - listen | listen with RealPlayer Venice Love Boat Venice is a faux radio show assembled by composer Massimo Simonini. It features a wide variety of music effectively interspersed with what Simonini calls "displaced announcers" - voices cut and pasted out of context. Simonini is also Artistic Director of the Angelica Festival in Bologna with a passionate viewpoint on new music. This program is a special presentation from WPS1's 2005 Venice Biennale broadcasts during which Simonini worked onsite for WPS1 as our Italian station manager. (78 minutes) Playlist
01 radio h-old
02 Chris Cutler Lutz Glandien
03 tv radio
04 Karlheinz Stockhausen
05 tv radio
06 Fred Frith
07 displaced announcer
08 Holger Czukay
09 displaced announcer
10 Sun Ra
11 displaced announcer
12 Eyvind Kang
13 displaced announcer
14 Sergio Bruni
15 displaced announcer
16 Frank Zappa
17 Lindsay Cooper
18 displaced announcer
19 Heiner Goebbels
20 displaced announcer
21 Sergio Bruni
22 displaced announcer
23 Derek Bailey
24 displaced announcer
25 Heiner Goebbels
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Sound Fetish - listen | listen with RealPlayer Sound Fetish features a partial panorama of "art sounds" from Italy - audio tracks from about 50 artists, composers, designers, performers, poets, and others living and working in Italy. Contributors were asked to submit either sounds with a duration of about five seconds, or a sonic continuum--such as a loop or a long track--of indeterminate, potentially infinite length. Our thanks to Steve Piccolo who compiled and mixed these recordings for WPS1. This program is a special presentation from WPS1's 2005 Venice Biennale broadcast. Contributors (in alphabetical disorder):
christian alati
carlo benvenuto
julien blaine
gianni broi (gruppo 03)
lorenzo brusci (timet)
letizia cariello
massimo carozzi (zimmerfrei)
a constructed world (geoff lowe & jacqui riva)
roberto cuoghi and alessandra sofia
de-abc (luca pancrazzi, gak sato, steve piccolo)
filippo del corno
paola di bello
mauro cossu
nathalie du pasquier
massimo falascone
emilio fantin
flavia fernandes
daniele ghisi
patrizia guerresi & massimo zarantonello
peter holzknecht
juan leal-ruiz
maurizio mansueti & luca cirillo (transistors)
massimo mariani
ottonella mocellin + nicola pellegrini
alberto motta (motta & sala)
maurizio nannucci
aleXnaSi
giancarlo norese
giovanni oberti
adrian paci
roberto paci dal?
angela paletta (comp. p.r. fricker)
matteo pennese
francesco pedrini
daniele pario perra
sara piccinelli
walter prati
letizia renzini
luca resta
gianluca scordo
gruppo sinestetico (antonio sassu et al)
sonicforce99
students of "new techniques of artistic expression" course, bergamo university
bert theis and mariette schiltz
marco tindiglia
vincenzo vasi
riccardo wanke
jimmy weinstein
gruppo wurmkos w/ filippo monico
gruppo zerotre
marco zoi, carlo fatigoni, herve constant
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Venice Sounds at Sunset: Asian Dub Foundation - listen | listen with RealPlayer This program of Punjabi and Punjabi-inspired music is a special presentation from WPS1's 2005 Venice Biennale broadcasts. It was compiled by Sanjay Gulabbhai Tailor for the Asian Dub Foundation. Sounds at Sunset was a daily cocktail and conversation hour on the WPS1 broadcast barge during the Biennale. (70 minutes) Playlist
Dhil Douriar - Ananda Das Gopalt Party (Dr. Das
ADF. Remix)
Tere Bin Nahin - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (PIR Remix)
Ajner - Midival Punditz
Chandraya - Dhamaal Soundsystem
Colourline - Asian Dub Foundation
Bolindub - Aref Durvesh + Party
Speechio - Kabul Workshop
Kanayashajaya - Ananda Das
Kodo - Yoshida Brothers
Shaam Dhale - Ustad Sultan Khan (Chitra)
Empty Hands - Karsh Kale
Kesariya - Sowmya Raoh
Warring Dholl - Asian Dub Foundation
Yathrya - Navdeep Armit
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Venice Sounds at Sunset: Blacktronica - listen | listen with RealPlayer Blactronica is represented here in a mix by Charlie Dark, a key player on the "broken beat" scene and the man behind the Blacktronica club night at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Blacktronica aims to showcase and celebrate innovative black electronic music past, present and future from Carl Craig to Coltrane and everything in between.--from the Web site. Sounds at Sunset was a daily cocktail and conversation hour on the WPS1 broadcast barge during the Biennale. |
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Venice Sounds at Sunset: India Earatica - listen | listen with RealPlayer Sounds with an Indian accent - made, played or waylaid by Punita Singh. Currently base in New Delhi, India, Singh works with sound in multiple contexts, as music, language, art and science. Our thanks to Bloomberg and Peter Nagy for coordinating this effort. 1. A tone for your syns 10:22 This work dates back to the pre-digital age of electroacoustic music in the early 80s. Most of the sounds were designed and performed by Punita on an ARP 2500 analog synthesizer using "low frequency oscillators" to control "voltage controlled filters" and such, to create evolving textures of sound. The piece is loosely set in raga Bhairav. The piano part was played live, improvising with the pre-recorded backtrack featuring electronic sounds interspersed with acoustic tabla and cowbells. 2. Wanton more 4:42 This work is a piecing together of disparate bits of speech and song, replete with sexual innuendo. Fragments of popular Bollywood movie sons interplay with other spicy bits in a linearly crooked way. 3. Chants encounter 7:53 Diverse prayer sounds come together in this enchanting encounter. 4. E vi ham rikhaaF 4:46 Turning the title around will reveal that this song is actually upcoming Indian pop idol Faakhir's latest hit song - mahi ve (dearly beloved). Turn the sounds around too, to listen to it straight up!. The intent of this piece was to explore the impact of time reversal on the attacks and decays of words and tones. The reversed speech sounds could well be legitimate within the phonetic of another language. The abrupt onsets of flipped tonal and percussive sounds are disturbing at first, but interestingly, maintain both rhythm and pitch of the piece. 5. Tabla solfege 3:36 Punita and Ghulam Ahmed engage in some vocal, rhythmic, metric exercises in this piece set in "teen tala" (16 beats). 6. Whose Bossa? 4:55 What is the girl from Ipanema doing on an Indian soundtrack?: Well, she's brought to Indian ears at the colonial Gymkhana club in New Delhi, underscoring the eclectic multi-cultural mixes of our times. A mostly Goan live band (Rocky on drums, Melvin on keyboards, Tony on trumpet, Keith on bass / lead guitar, Punita on congas) gave Delhi a flavour of cha-cha, samba, beguine, mambo and, of course - the bossanova, on Wednesday nights for many years. 7. Bulle Shah 8:16 Sufi mystic, brilliant poet - Bulle Shah seems to be discovered afresh by ever generation. In this piece, Pakistan's Abida Parveen and Indian's Rabbi Shergill present their take on beloved Bulla. 8.Khoj 2000 collage 12:02 Invite artists from all over the world to India and send them off to a little town in Uttar Pradesh for two weeks. What do you get? An assortment of accents. The sounds of Hindi and Brazilian songs playing while artists hammer and chisel and paint and paste, cleaners sweep, cooks cool. Fun and frustration. Creativity and chaos. AN "open day" when locals come to view the works create in their milieu, and on this occasion, participate as well, in an impromptu percussion jam around a hollowed tree "drum". This acoustic collage is a literal record of the workshop. |
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Venice Sounds at Sunset: MidEast Pavilion - listen | listen with RealPlayer During the 2005 Venice Biennale, WPS1 broadcast Sonic Pavilions for a group of countries and regions not represented in the exhibition. The Mideast Pavilion features old and contemporary North African music in a mix by Greg Sonata. Greg Sonata started his career in 1994 playing the early electronics parties around Montpellier, France. Between 1995 and 1999 he played in most of the clubs in the south of France. In 1999 he moved in Paris and become resident dj at the famous club Le Queen on the Champs Elysees. In 2002 he moved to London where currently he promotes parties with friends like the Dj Boris Horel, Mathieu Massadian (ex radio nova), and Mark Mayer (React Music). Their most important party is "Foreign muck" where they promote the underground electro-house sound with artists like Ivan Smagghe, Dj Chloe, Jerome Pacman, M.A.N.D.Y, jef k, headman... |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Century - listen | listen with RealPlayer Selections from the self-published double CD (SYR4, Musical Perspectives) featuring the band playing some of the more challenging scores of late 20th century composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros. Playlist
Pauline Oliveros - Six for New Time (1999, written for the band)
Takehisa Kosugi - +- (1987)
Yoko Ono - Voice Piece for Soprano (1961, and only 12 seconds long)
Steve Reich - Pendulum Music (1968)
John Cage - Six (1991)
Christian Wolff - Burdocks (1971)
George Maciunas - Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece) (1962)
Nicolas Slonimsky - Piece Enfantine (1951)
Cornelius Cardew - Treatise (1967)
James Tenney - Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1971)
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WPS1 Venice Special: A Man in a Room, Gambling - listen | listen with RealPlayer This work by Juan Muñoz for radio, a collaboration with the composer Gavin Bryars from the early 1990s called A Man In A Room, Gambling, has Muñoz explaining card tricks and sleights of hand over a lilting Bryars composition. Muñoz wanted this series of 10 five-minute vignettes broadcast like the weather forecast, on successive evenings. In the live performance of the work at a BBC radio theatre in London in 1997, it was preceded by a "reading" of the coastal weather reports by the ubiquitous Peter Donaldson. The artist once said that this work was about a man in a room, waiting for nothing. For A Man in a Room, Gambling, Muñoz wrote ten texts, each one describing the manipulation of playing cards. Each lasts exactly five minutes and would ideally be placed before the last radio news of the evening so that the programme would be encountered, in Britain at least, like a encounter with the Shipping Forecast. Each is accompanied by a string quartet, playing at exactly the same tempo for each piece, giving an overall unifying texture to each five-minute piece and to the sequence of ten programmes. Muñoz 's text (derived in part from probably the most famous book on card trickery ever published, The Expert at the Card Table, which appeared under the pseudonym SW Erdnase in 1902) tells us how to shuffle the cards in such a way that certain cards move from the top to the bottom of the pack, how to deal from the bottom of the pack and "how to get rid of the card, or extra cards, you have in your hand." What makes this collaboration more unusual is that Muñoz was not a writer or actor but a sculptor, creator of the haunting installation Double Bind which inhabited the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in 2001. Bryars has said, "the idea of working with a sculptor in a non-visual medium was interesting and challenging, especially when it emerged that what we would be dealing with was the idea of describing actions which themselves involve visual illusions and trickery." This series of visual illusions, which we can witness only in our mind's eye, is presented to us according to a strict formula. The music is at the same tempo throughout, crotchet = 60, and each programme has seventy-five bars, all of them 4/4. Each programme begins with music and then, after four beats/seconds, Muñoz greets us: "Good evening." He pauses, while the music plays on, and then goes on to describe the nature of the illusion. At the mid-point of each programme he moves on to specific instructions: "take the pack, shuffle [...] move the top card out a little with your thumb [...] did you see, did you see?" Finally, three bars from the end, he closes: "Thank you and good night." Muñoz is known internationally for his enigmatic sculptural installations, often populated by strangely haunting, almost-human figures. He died in an accident in Ibiza, Spain in August 2001. Our gracious thanks to the family of Juan Muñoz, who made this recording available to WPS1. |
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WPS1 Venice Special: Mercedes Ruehl in Woman Before a Glass - listen | listen with RealPlayer Actor Mercedes Ruehl and playwright Lanie Robertson visited the Clocktower studios in late May 2005 just before the WPS1 team left for the Biennale. In a special arrangement between the artists and WPS1, Ruehl performed excerpts from their Off-Broadway production of Robertson's play about Peggy Guggenheim in Venice and then the two sat down with David Weinstein to discuss the project and its future. In Woman Before a Glass, Mercedes Ruehl portrays Peggy Guggenheim, the tempestuous lover of men and modern art, who spent her life supporting and loving the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century. Set from 1963 to 1968 in Peggy's home in Venice, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, the play follows the great triumphs and supreme disappointments of the legendary Grande Dame of the art world. She never bought a work of art for profit and never by chance, assembling a piece-by-piece collection that included major works by Klee, Pollack, Ernst, Miro, Chagall, DeKooning, Dali, Leger, Picasso, Duchamp, Braque, Rothko, Motherwell, Man Ray, among many others. The 2005 New York production of Woman Before a Glass was directed by Casey Childs and won 5 Obie awards--for Ruehl and the entire design team. Ruehl was also nominated for Drama League and Outer Critic Circle Awards. Scenic design was by Thomas Lunch, with costumes by Willa Kim, lighting by Phil Monat, and original music and sound design by David Van Tieghem. The show was produced by Susan Quint Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Debra Black, Maria Cozzi and Morton Swinsky. |
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WPS1 Venice Music Special: Mike Skinner, 8-Track Attack listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer From Mike Skinner's notes: Many of the tones in the pieces originate from analog synths, radio static, and various buzzing, humming or bubbling sources. I am recording directly to 8 track cassettes that I am scavenging from sources all over the country (especially through ebay and estate sales). My interest in using 8 tracks began as I was thinking about a way to play multiple soundscapes simultaneously. The experiments started by using laptops and multiple cd players all playing the same tracks at the same time and gradually falling out of synch. The pieces became more interesting to me as time passed, or as I was able to relax further into the sounds to really begin to experience time passing. I then moved to creating multiple CDs which would also play simultaneously again opening up a sort of entropy which would slowly "evolve". I imagine these multi-track soundscapes as pushing off a note in a bottle in space. They will continue on that path until something interrupts it's path. I start the process and from there it is out of my hands (my 8 track performance pieces, however, involve direct manipulation of multiple tapes and transmitters routed through effects). The beauty of portable 8 tracks is that they continue to play indefinitely (or, if I choose, as long as the batteries last). Mike Skinner began his NYC music career drumming/recording/touring for a wide array of artists, including Kevin Devine, The Lily's, Miracle of 86 and, of course, Black Moustache. Several years ago Skinner began branching out into soundtracks (Final Fantasy), composing scores for German choreographer Isabel Gotzkowski and most recently, sound projects for artists James Drake, Danny Hobart and Ugo Rondinone, as well as his own fine art sound projects. Skinner has composed or compiled original runway scores for Yoko Devereaux, H Fredriksson and Jasmin Shokrian, written songs for Amanda LePore and produced Libertine's 2004 show. See Mike Skinner perform 8-Track Attack live at Roulette, New York, on November 19, 2006, at 8:30 PM. |
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WPS1 Sampler - listen | listen with RealPlayer Short excerpts and colorful comments from our hosts plus musical selections that illustrate some of our signature music and DJ session shows. Playlist
01 Introducing WPS1 Art Radio ( :43)
02 Sonorama, Ethiopiques, Vol. 4 (3:54)
03 Sonorama, Music Tomorrow Today with Elliott Sharp (:23)
04 Sonorama, Michio Yagi (1:17)
05 Shocking Blue with Delphine Blue (:28)
06 DJ Sessions, Nickodemus (3:03)
07 Black Rock Coalition, with LaRonda Davis, Earl Douglas, and Darrell McNeill (:23)
08 Sonorama, Koreacores, National Classical Music Institute (3:02)
09 Bald Ego Live with Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien (:30)
10 Sonorama, Traveling Through the Jungle (1:32)
11 Armchair Traveler with Lorenzo Mans (:30)
12 Sonorama, Busratch (3:54)
13 Liquid Love with Jeannie Hopper (:33)
14 Sonorama, Sasandu (2:26)
15 Our Correspondents: Miami with Jill Spalding (:25)
16 DJ sets, DJ Rekha (2:52)
17 Our Correspondents: Tokyo with Kazue Kobata (:32)
18 Sonorama, Elliott Sharp (2:31)
19 Muevete with Ned Sublette (:31)
20 Warm Up, Joey Llanos (2:48)
21 Yay/Nay Show with Linda Yablonsky and Carey Lovelace (:25)
22 Sonorama, Lilith Stones (2:07)
23 Conversations with Writers, with Charles Ruas (:29)
24 Sonorama, Charlemagne Palestine (3:58)
25 The Lonely Bitter Hour with Zak Smith and Jeronimo Elespe (:31)
26 Sonorama, Gordon Mumma (3:10)
27 Yes Yes Y'all with Charlie Ahearn (:33)
28 Warm Up, DJ Kervin (2:52)
29 Beyond the Subtitles with Stephen Schaefer (:30)
30 Sonorama, Conlon Nancarrow (2:19)
31 Transister Radio with Frances Sorenson (:30)
32 Warm Up, DJ Lok-ki (2:57)
33 Live Nude Radio Theater with Edwin Torres (:29)
34 Sonorama, Iannis Xenakis (2:40)
35 Shocking Blue with Delphine Blue (:21)
36 WPS1 Clocktower (:08)
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Panel Discussions |
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Bloomberg Breakfast Onboard: Fear - listen | listen with RealPlayer The mornings began with a Salon hosted by curator/critic Sacha Craddock. Each Salon featured a theme that the invited participants knew in advance--and came dutifully prepared. The guests for the panel on Fear were:
Carolyn Christov Bakargiev (Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy)
Rachel Withers (academic and critic, UK)
Henry Meyric Hughes (independent curator, consultant and writer on art)
Waldemar Januszczak (critic for the Guardian, Sunday Times)
Rebecca King Lassman (consultant for ACT IV in London)
Jenni Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Center)
Jefford Horrigan (multi-disciplinary artist, UK)
Sacha Craddock, an independent art critic and curator, teaches at many art colleges, writes articles, catalogue essays and gives public lectures. The chair of New Contemporaries, she co-curates, with three others, Bloomberg Space in the City of London.
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Bloomberg Breakfast Onboard: Love - listen | listen with RealPlayer A daily Salon, sponsored by Bloomberg, was hosted by curator/critic Sacha Craddock. Each Salon featured a theme that the invited participants knew in advance--and came dutifully prepared. The guests for the panel on Love were:
Sally O'Reilly (writer and critic, UK)
Warren Niesluchovski (Artist, US)
Martin Sexton (writer and music producer, London)
Andrew Brown (Commissioning Editor, Thames and Hudson)
Wolfe Lenkiewicz (curator, London)
Rebecca King Lassman
James Putnam (independent curator, writer, co-founder with Sacha Craddock of Salons at Blacks, London)
Anna Boggon (artist, UK)
Zlatko Wurzberg (writer, Croatia)
Cessare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy)
Ian Rawlinson (artist, UK)
Nick Crowe (artist, UK)
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Bloomberg Breakfast Onboard: Risk - listen | listen with RealPlayer A daily Salon was held on the Fusina, as our broadcast vessel was known, hosted by curator/critic Sacha Craddock. Each Salon featured a theme that the invited participants knew in advance--and came dutifully prepared. The guests for the panel on Risk were:
Naglaa Walker (Artist, UK)
Mark Gisbourne (Art Critic , based in Berlin)
Zarina Bhimji (Artist, British)
Joachim Koester (Artist, Denmark)
Catsou Roberts (Senior Curator, Arnolfini, Bristol)
Warren Neidich (Artist, US)
Rachel Withers (Academic and Critic UK)
Richard Wentworth (Artist, UK)
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Bloomberg Breakfast Onboard: Water - listen | listen with RealPlayer The daily Salon, sponsored by Bloomberg and hosted by curator/critic Sacha Craddock. Each Salon featured a theme that the invited participants knew in advance--and came dutifully prepared. The guests for the panel on Water were:
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Swiss curator, Author)
Suzanne Cotter (Senior Curator at Modern Art Oxford)
Nairne (Director, Modern Art Oxford)
Bob Pain (designer, UK)
John Julius Norwich (author/historian, UK)
Alberto Garutti (artist, Italy)
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WPS1 Venice Biennale Overview - listen | listen with RealPlayer Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin induce a Biennale overview and deliver a discussion on politics in art with Jan Mancuska, Jelena Vesic, Cecilia Canziani, Wolfgang Berkowski, and Vladimir Jević. (33 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Conversations: On Questioning the Writing of the History of Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer Branko Franceschi, Executive Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia hosts a predominately East European panel that asks some tough questions in a spirited and spririt-fed discussion with:
Braco Dimitrijevic, artist
Zelimir Koscevic, art historian
Andrej Savski, artist, member of Irwin/www.eastartmap.org
Janka Vukmir, Director, Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb
Solvita Krese, Director, Institute for Contemporary Art in Riga
Konstantin Akinsha, Senior Adviser, Research Project for Art and Archives, New York;
Contributing Editor, ARTnews, New York.
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WPS1 Venice Conversations: New Perspectives - listen | listen with RealPlayer A discussion during the 2005 Biennale held onboard the WPS1 broadcast barge. Hosted by Brett Littman, Deputy Director of P.S.1 and art and design critic. His guests: Joe Martin Hill (independent critic and PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; assisting Robert Storr in the preparation of the biennials conference sponsored by the Venice Biennale in December 2005) Virginia Perez-Ratton (Founding Director of TEOR/?Tica, San Jose, Costa Rica, and regional or national curator for biennial exhibitions in Sao Paolo, 1996; Venice, 1997; Cuenca, 2001 and 2004; International Jury for the 2001 Venice Biennale) Eugene Tan (Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and co-curator of the first Singapore Biennial in 2006) Tirdad Zolghadr (editor, documentary film maker, and co-curator of the Sharjah Biennial 2005) Candice Breitz (South African artist and writer based in New York. In her work she employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions.) Tania Bruguera (Cuban-born artist has participated in numerous biennials and other large-scale international exhibitions, including Sao Paolo (1996), Johannesburg (1997), Site Santa Fe (1999), Havana (2000), the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), and Documenta XI (2002). |
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WPS1 Venice Conversations: The Bob Nickas Roundtable - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1's Bob Nickas in a freewheeling chat in the onboard lounge with Israeli video artist Guy Ben-Ner, artist Jason Krauss, artist John Armleder, and collector and author Marjory Jacobs. |
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WPS1 Venice Conversations: The Islands of Venice - listen | listen with RealPlayer Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy), assembled a panel to discuss a range of projects involving the Venician archipelago. Joining them onboard were artists Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Monica Narula, Micol Assael, Michelangelo Pistoletto, artist/curator Peter Nagy, and critic/curator Achille Bonito Oliva. The "Queen of the Adriatic" consists of 117 islands, dissected by 177 canals which in turn are spanned by 408 bridges. A series of barrier islands, including the once posh Lido beach resort, protects the shallow lagoon from the ravages of the Adriatic Sea. |
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WPS1 Venice: The Life Aquatic - listen | listen with RealPlayer Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin host our "floating" news and gossip segment held daily during the Biennale. This edition contains tidbits and exchanges with P.S.1 directors and staffers Alanna Heiss, Brett Littman, Danielle King and David Weinstein. Brett delivers the most salacious stuff on this day... (16 minutes) |
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WPS1 Venice Conversations: Success - listen | listen with RealPlayer Art historian, critic, and curator Anda Rottenberg (who oversaw major elements in the enduring life of contemporary art in Poland both during and after Communism) hosts a panel in Venice investigating the virtues and liabilities of success. With a talented collection of humble seekers after truth:
Gerald Matt, Director of Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Anders Harm, critic and curator, Tallin Art Hall, Estonia
Lorand Hegyi, curator, historian and Director of Le Museié d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne
Bart De Baere, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp
Mark Gisbourne curator and historian at the Vernissage (London/Berlin)
Alfons Hug curator of the XXVI Bienal de Sáo Paulo, Brazil
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Roving Reporters |
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Our Correspondents, Venice: Adelina Von Furstenberg listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer The irrepressible curator and founder of Art for the World Adelina Von Furstenberg roamed Venice for WPS1 asking "Can art change the world" to a variety of luminaries and colleagues... and does it in their native longues. |
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Our Correspondents, Venice: Gea Politi - listen | listen with RealPlayer Gea Politi continued to report for WPS1 all week in Venice. Here are three interviews filed by mobile phone: Critic/curator Massimiliano Gioni (Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan, co-curator Manifesta 2004, curator of The Zone at the 50th Venice Biennale and co-director 4th Berlin Biennial, opening March, 2006.) Artist Francesco Vezolli whose faux-Hollywood film trailer for an imaginary remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula trailer caused a mini-fuss at the Biennale. And a conversation with an art lover who traces her heritage to one of the twelve families that founded Venice. |
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Our Correspondents, Venice: Jen DeNike - listen | listen with RealPlayer During our week in Venice WPS1's Jen DeNike phoned in these reports and interviews with transgender "futuring" couple Eve and Adele, Gilbert and George at their Pavilion, and with artist Peter Coffin at Swansong the exhibit curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer that allows visitors to choose music for their own funeral and then play/live/die it out right there lying on a white catafalque. ( 13 minutes ) |
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