Venezia, 7 May. (askanews) – In the Austrian pavilion SeaWorldVenice Of Florentina Holzinger edited by Nora-Swantje Almes, visitors’ bodily fluids are transformed into accommodations for the artists who inhabit the pavilion through different performance calls Venice Etudeswhile actively contributing to the flooding of the pavilion itself: a mechanical organism in which the body is an element within a radically changing landscape where nature and technology collide in the collapse of systems. The Venice Etudes are jointly commissioned by the Bukhman Foundation, the Hartwig Art Foundation and the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery.
In the Polish pavilion, Liquid Tongues is an audiovisual installation by Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowskiin which the community choir Choir in Motion, made up of hearing and deaf people, interprets the songs and communication systems of whales through spoken and sign language. The creators of the project seek alternative modes of communication, inspired by non-human life. They question the ability to build new relationships and sensitivities, overcoming the boundaries between apparently different worlds.
Following the minor keys by Koyo Kouoh, the pavilion invites you to listen to what is delicate and insufficiently audible: the quietest voices, the micro-memories and the overlooked narratives. Liquid Tongues aligns with this perspective, offering a vision of the future based on empathy and interspecies care. It is a story of communication as a space for meeting and relating. According to the curator of the Polish pavilion Ewa Chomicka, the project draws attention to the voices that are overlooked in dominant narratives. The organizer and producer of the Polish Pavilion is Zach ta – National Art Gallery.
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