Australian Pavilion, Australia at Venice Biennale of Art - Giardini, Castello - City of Venice
(Photo: Marco Fusinato DESASTRES, 2022 solo durational performance as installation 200 days Installation view, Australia Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2022 Photographer: Andrea Rossetti)
Exhibition in progress from April 23rd to November 27th 2022
The 59th Biennale Arte will open to the public on 23 April. But on the 20th, 21st and 22nd there will be the various openings and collateral events that always suddenly animate the Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place on the day of the opening to the public.
The title of the 59th edition of the Biennale d'Arte is Il Latte dei Sogni that means The Milk of Dreams.
The invited artists are 213 from 58 countries. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 the first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 the works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
In all, 80 nations will participate in the Venice Biennale in the pavilions at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice.
Go to the page of the 59th Venice Art Biennale
Australian Pavilion, Australia at 59th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Australian Pavilion is Desastres.
Artists: Marco Fusinato.
Curators: Alexie Glass-Kantor.
Commissioner: Australia Council for the Arts.
Seat: Australian Pavilion, Giardini - Venice
Press Release of Australian Pavilion
� The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first details of
Marco Fusinato�s presentation at the Biennale Arte 2022, Venice, curated
by Alexie Glass-Kantor.
� desastres is the title of the presentation that will run from 23 April to 27
November 2022.
� desastres is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with
image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation.
� The artist will be performing during the opening hours of the Biennale � a
total of 200 days.
� The presentation will be the first time the Australian Pavilion, located in
the historic Giardini della Biennale, has been the site for a live durational
performance.
Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinato�s parents migrated to
Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne.
Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of
installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. desastres
is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass
media images and art history.
Developed in Naarm/Melbourne during its extended COVID-19 lockdown, the work
embraces all the associated frustrations, pessimism and turmoil. Fusinato, who was
isolated at home and unable to access his studio during this period, says of the development of desastres, �I�m interested in the tensions around opposing forces like noise versus silence, order versus disorder, the institution versus the underground, purity
versus contamination. These binaries co-exist and in desastres it�s that friction I want to
maintain � not eliminate. I feel like these tensions are always rubbing up against each
other and the interesting thing is how one deals with these agitations, with the
contradictions. It�s that in-between state that I want to occupy.�
Desastres is a visceral experience of sound and image that places the audience at the
centre of the work. Fusinato will perform live in the pavilion using an electric guitar as a
signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback
and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images. The resulting all-consuming
experience is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of.
Fusinato says: �My idea of activating the audience is to remind them that
they are alive. That they have a pulse. My work always begins with
something I want to experience.�
Glass-Kantor says: �desastres breaks from the traditional exhibition
format. This is not a static exhibition, but an evolving work. We will be live for
the entire 200 days duration of the Biennale Arte in Venice. 200 days, and every
time an audience experiences the work, it will be unique. The intensity of the
conditions in which this project evolved has allowed the work to be fully
embodied as the complete disaster. The performance of the work isn�t about
theatre but the act of labour and perseverance.�
For Fusinato, representing Australia at Venice holds particular significance. His first
language, and the language spoken by his parents as he was growing up, is a Venetian
dialect of the contadini from the Veneto region. Fusinato says the centuries-old oral
traditions, passed down through the generations, are disappearing within his lifetime.
He says: �I�m going back to exactly the same place my parents migrated
from to represent the country they migrated to. There�s a collapse of time.�
The Australia Council is the commissioner for Australia�s National Participation at the
59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. ceo adrian collette aM
says: �Marco Fusinato has created a powerful work that is the culmination of his career
of experimentation and research. Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, this presentation will
offer audiences an experience like no other � continuing for the duration of the Biennale
Arte.�
The artist has also created a �Score� for desastres. He says: �Creating a score was a
way to make tangible the idea of image as sound; the �Score� as a proposition. The
�Score� is a selection of images from the archive for desastres printed full bleed onto
manuscript paper.�
Glass-Kantor says, �The images for the �Score� are part of a broader
archive that Fusinato has been developing for many years. Every day from
today till the opening of the exhibition at the Australian Pavilion, we will
release an image of the �Score� across dedicated social platforms as an
invitation to engage with the project.�
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring a new essay by Branden W
Joseph, professor of art history at Columbia University and an extensive interview by
Alexie Glass-Kantor with Marco Fusinato. There will also be texts by critical theorist and
filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli, AI researcher and author Kate Crawford, writer and
curator Chus Martinez, and musicians/outre-guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth),
Stephen O�Malley (SUNN O)))) and Bruce Russell (Dead C). The publication is being
co-published by Lenz, an independent Milan-based publisher and the Australia Council.
The design for the publication is a collaboration by �iga Testen and Marco Fusinato.
The exhibition will run in conjunction with the Australia Council�s professional
development programs, including the Biennale Delegates Program and the Australian
Pavilion Invigilation Program.
Useful information for the visit
Hours:
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