Picks up the golden lion for best national participation. Meanwhile iranian born artist. Transcends the trauma of exile i dont want to always live with this a sense of longing in this romantic idea of return the Venice Biennale and highlight of the twenty seventeen art show calendar. Its the aimed are to viva long live art but what kind and why arts twenty one takes the pulse. Lapid aged yet breathtakingly beautiful venice can still steal a show even one that celebrates International Lot setting the festival it can feel like visual overkill this almost too much to look at. World a truck appears to have been dropped headfirst into the terrace of the austrian pavilion its classic alvin hall and the office provocateurs transform sculpture into a site of action his truck serves as a Lookout Point with stunning views and board when some want to come others want to leave some want to cross the mediterranean to reach europe others dont want them to be with the mediterranean is the core of the piece you go up it and at the top with a plaque that says stand quiet and look out over the mediterranean only you dont see the mediterranean because its in our heads with a. Fullness one minute sculptures address issues such as migration and mobility this one recalls the caravan praise of the one nine hundred sixty s. And seventys its also a performance culture with the public invited to put their heads legs and arms through holes in the camper van. Other artists through for tackling the topic of migration one of them is Australian Artist tracy morphett at the john dean edell of. The bishan is the first solo show by an indigenous artist at the Prestigious International event. In the peace body remembering she appears as a maybe its an illusion to the fate suffered by Many Australian aborigines who were stolen from their families as children and put to work as needs in white house a. Place a little bit on not Family History my family were domestic they worked at my. My my great great grandmother worked in a nine hundred ten one of off cattle property in remote astride yes she was the cook by aboriginal grandmother so its a little bit Family History but i dont leave it there ive thought. Questions of history and identity are explored and many of the pavilions ranging from garish to cerebral the art on display represents eighty six countries in total. The italian pavilion is reminiscent of an alchemy ists laboratory. Jesus after jesus is cast by assistants working with molds and kilns then theyre laid out on their backs in little plastic bubble. I am new to parts of this year is that visitors can often watch the artists at work the central exhibit action is viva additive evil it features work by a hundred and twenty artists. Dont have spare is an artist from new york at a young age doubles as a music studio. I just think that the regard of you is a perfect the perfect way to describe it i mean viva in oz is celebrate tory you know and its art and its a sort of suggesting that there is a theres other ways of working. This is what george will be doing for the next six months shell need a lot of stamina thats a certain. No this isnt a souvenir shop its a project by all are for. The icelandic danish artist has invited refugees to a temporary workshop to make lamps that visitors can buy. Give. The proceeds go to local refugee organizations. In. The quota sector by all means i. I think its capable of coming up with solutions and thats why i think thats why we came to venice of going to Venice Biennale if its such a resourceful event this is quite elitist also to be very honest because the be a knowledge of process is the center of the panic and of the art world if you want but were still i think i think we have the strength and the mobility to kind of. Trying to come up with new solutions these solutions might not be great art but they are very right on. The t. V. Includes a range of what are called trends pavilion in which the curator says put the voice the role and the responsibilities of the artist at its center they have dame such as pavilion of coming of the young and of the shamans. In the pavilion of time and infinity visitors can lose themselves in an installation by billion based polish born artist elise your client. August twenty one found its favorite piece of this years event in the South African pavilion. The country is home to an exciting art scene and more how moody sucking is one of its rising stars the multidisciplinary visual artist was born in soweto in one thousand nine hundred eighty six. In the immersive video installation passage he uses his own body to explore south africas violent colonial past. I was interested in the question about the entity and only way i could come around it was to refer back to myself and to my own body but also using it as a reference for the black body in general in the history of south africa. In a certain its an autobiographical project but it refers back to the. Blackbody in african history into. A celebration of art and for many participating artists a platform for self discovery. Twenty seventeen can be loud and brash but this common tranquillity here as well. Inhofe was the talk of the town even before germany won top honors her Performance Installation is a crowd puller. The. Ana in homes performance based artwork plays with viewers emotions who is watching home. It touches on feelings of power powerlessness fear and freedom will the performers jump do they control the crowds are enthusiastic must queue for at least one hour to get in everyones eager to see in hopes work especially now that shes won the golden lion award. Inside the pavilion the atmosphere is calm and serious casually clad performers discreetly directed by impulse take over the pavilion and retreat to platforms. Where. Simultaneously other performers crawl underneath the thick glass floor theyre visible but inaccessible. The performance is titled faust german for fist and the pavilion feels like a mix between a cathedral and a nightclub. And into our think of the title file you realize that you can only feel my fist with all five fingers. Thats so and only then can you use your fists but first also have political symbolism of course. Politicise. Involved believes in the power of collective action she gradually developed the piece together with the performers and all at the pavilion she silently directs them via text messages. Today shes too busy to talk to arts twenty one about the performance luckily we interviewed her two years ago i am. Derives its power from ideas in the freedom of thought that plays an Important Role in my work and space to get us involved studied at frankfurts state of art school her talent was apparent early on is thanking us and for me it was better i primarily produce images to which the aspect of temporality is added that means my work is finite not to. He was dont know and i think performances have a different temporality to paintings or sculptures in this and songs and place cut us as functioning and where what im going to walk by the hopping line and. In another performance titled deal involved transformed butter milk into a currency to be passed on. Two years ago she was nominated for germanys Renowned National gallery award for Young Artists alongside four other artists involved one her mysteriously Expressive Art was a hit. She became a rising star on an art scene where Performance Art is all the rage her five hour long opera angst by performed in berlin caused a stir it focused on present day obsessions like self presentation self Optimization Technology and surveillance. And then one for the truck that went back to when the audience and the performer are in the same room but the performance has no set script it becomes like a dance with the stroke. Its like a mental dance because little happens thats almost like telepathy and cup for his cup this is for us times for. Animals are a trademark of impulse performances they represent the archaic the coincidental and unplanned. Impulse prefers to work with the same group of artists dancers and musicians. Us this perfectly coordinated performance with a strong contemporary point of view is the result of months of collaborative work. Alright. Yeah but this i think its important to realize we live in a time and mocked by great transformation that off has to reflect always changes on him who works do just that in a very interesting and highly complex. Sway. Many of them have images have an intense immediacy to them some performers take action others suffer some are included others excluded. The performance invokes invisible power structures fear and isolation and Award Winning commentary on the contemporary world. Naturally we have tons more in store from the world of arts and culture from hip to classic from painting to literature visit our Facebook Page at detail you dot culture. New york based artist shereen nash and was born in iran against the grand backdrop of venice her latest work explores cultural identities and the concept of home. Venice is familiar territory for this acclaimed artist. Shes received many big awards here now shes exhibiting her photographs at the corner on st marks square. It was a total chance that this Museum Offered this room to me that came with the madonna on the wall and they said to add that this could not be removed but i couldnt have asked for anything better because what they didnt know that and the photographs that i had done were inspired by christian paintings. What i love about this room and this floor is that the remaining of their objects and paintings are entirely religious paintings and then you come to his room and youre surrounded by contemporary faces all under the umbrella of a madonna. Past works have focused mainly on Iranian Society for this project shes taken portraits of people of all ages in azerbaijan each of them looking straight into the camera and in similar poses a multiethnic and multireligious country azerbaijan borders iranian homeland. Was a part of iran until the Nineteenth Century so when i went to observe asian i felt like i was going home and me that never goes back to iran being you know as have asian was very sort of moving for me and. Today turks russians ukrainians armenians and georgians also call azerbaijan home in this country bounded by the caucasus and the caspian sea muslims jews and christians live in relative harmony. When she took their pictures asked her subjects what home means to them. Shes incorporated their stories into the pictures that she softened using calligraphy. Its become her trademark. However the home of my eyes is also a very personal quest for the artist ive lost all favor of what is the meaning of home by being nomadic or not homeless but now magic and he was interesting because there the things that they pointed out to were the what was the essence of the meaning of home to them it wasnt anything profound but a certain order certain flowers certain locations certain i food and certain reasons that with never ever allowed them to leave. Me questioning them a bad there and their relationships as a concept of home was really my own. Looking into the nearing asking those questions to me sound. In her video next that goes a step further. She shows how ruthless she feels in the u. S. Where she now lives. Shes both touched and repelled. Torn between cultures a life full of contradictions neshek captures this experience in powerful dreamlike images. Ive moved on and i dont want to always live with this a sense a longing in this romantic idea of returning i feel that i have come to an end of that chapter and my stories my concepts my characters are changing i no longer hear and what remains constant is myself and that woman thats me obviously so i never have to cut ties with iran because i am nearing you and i will always remain on you but i dont have to obsess about the onion clutter since im never going back. To her current plans include a german produced feature film and a photo series in the us. This summer shes trying something completely new directing a production of aida at the festival. Sharon ashot is an artist whos constantly evolving it remains true to herself. Over the years the german pavilion has appeared in many guises but the lines outside are always long a look back at the most outstanding entries from the past two decades. The german pavilion building the doors his house has a murky historical past built in the early Twentieth Century it was redesigned in the one nine hundred thirty s. By the nazis to reflect their pension for monumental is and. Many artists have explored this past with their work and theres another more monday night speak to the nazi legacy. The german pavilion is a real fascist building no toilet my bathroom i want to eat and i want to rest. Its purely symbolic so for the last forty years or fifty years you know. He is the toilet go to the british pavilion in a way you find out nothing about by looking at the german profession somehow but you find out a lot about the interface between representation and history and desire. In one thousand nine hundred three at the first to be an ally to take place after german reunification artists address the building history with his piece. Hitlers first trip abroad was to venice in one nine hundred thirty four where he visited the german pavilion of the be an alley. He ordered a redesign including the laying of marble slabs. Uprooted them and smashed them into pieces visitors literally tried to undermine history and inevitably slip now and then all part of the concept. And im bored and such that. If the ground beneath your feet is destroyed youre on shaky ground. In my opinion thats the situation in which europe and especially germany now finds itself. In that respect i wouldnt call what i have done here an attack on germany. In a way it could almost be understood as a patriotic undertaking. And have. Been well outside the building was a multimedia spectacle by Nam June Pike called marco polo their joint work at the german pavilion was awarded a clothing line. In two thousand and one. Golden lion went to great gosh nighter who relocated the entire interior of a postwar Residential Home inside the doors as house for his installation daughters house air. It was both stultifying league ordinary and strangely creepy. In two thousand and seven is against can in case the building in a bright orange net that looked like it had been stolen from one of the citys many building sites. Inside this idiosyncratic german artist created a mysterious world of covering space suits rubber reptiles. In two thousand and eleven a church moved into the cathedral like the billion a church of fear versus the alien within to be precise. It was the stage for a Theatre Project by performer filmmaker and director christoph lindsay. But he died of cancer before he could transform his vision into reality at the b. L. S. The spoke of interest how its incredibly sad that we cant see what he had planned because it would have been just great funny and really extreme but. I could never reproduce that liveliness in any film but with very consciously ensuring that his character is present in the pavilion guns but most. Of the. Percents. May. Be. Blooming good or. Bad boy. Curators susan against time are made a virtue of necessity and turn the pavilion into an homage to the multitalented. And germany was rewarded with the b. L. S. Golden lion for her efforts. Through. The pavilion as a reflection of the nation the german nation was increasingly being called into question. In two thousand and thirteen things became even more confusing the german pavilion moved in to the french one. This symbolic Building Exchange was made to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the end is a treaty. And the pavilion kept getting fuller. Three International Artists and one german one were invited to represent germany in venice in the french pavilion. Although he was invited chinese artist ai wei wei couldnt travel to venice in two thousand and thirteen as his passport had been confiscated. But his installation bang composed of eight hundred eighty six stools made it to be an ally without him. Or judiciary. Usually john the trainee every artists right to express him or herself and to communicate with. Conley dont have that right. Showed you how i believe its impossible to suppress ones imagination and passion he could help me and they can only be suppressed what superficially her appeal made her trade. In two thousand and thirteen for International Artists exhibited their works at the pavilion to provide different perspectives on our increasingly complicated world with a focus on photography and film. And in two thousand and fifteen another four artist represented germany at the german to billion if you havent been in the fabric we call the pavilion. And thats one way of reacting to the building and reflects a theme touched upon by the art you know me from fits about how we work here kaname the western neo liberal economic order and how it affects other parts of the world and of it. Todays most pressing issues have been addressed at the german pavilion among them the refugee crisis digitalisation and the flood of images in two thousand and fifteen there was a video installation that was like a video game but one that audience is going to control this was a critique of the way we interact on several media. And on off nikolai showcased his boomerang performance the top of the german pavilion an act of total artistic liberation. Thats all from arts twenty one for today are reviewed he achieved a name we leave you with a roundup of our favorite images ciao and till next time. Thanks. Meet young entrepreneurs eager to tackle the big challenges in our series founders. 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