37 Pavilions

anyMeta 4.19.3 - Atom module 0.3.2 2012-02-16T16:56:22+01:00 http://www.mediamatic.net/feed/atom/101520/en 37 Pavilions http://www.mediamatic.net/id/104202 2010-01-04T14:25:05+01:00 Naples Pavilion Il regno dell'intallio

The First Naples Pavilion at the first Amsterdam Biennale. From Oct 17 - Jan 3 the Naples Pavilion, curated by Diana Marrone, is presenting the work of Danilo Capasso, Alessandro Cimmino, Roberto Paci Dalo, Marco Zezza and N.E.S.T. For an interview with Diana Marrone, go <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/page/115059/en">here</a>.

_ Il regno dell’intallio || Naples, the kingdom of take-it-easy Many are the common things on Naples, its history and especially its pretty worldwide high score on breaking news – from the disposal to glossy trashy on the infinite neighbours: Capri, Positano, Casoria, somewhere around. Despite this, city and the citizens love to take-it-easy (intalliarsi). It is not just to be lazy, added with a hint of retro-anarchism and a bunch of hyper-bourgeoised egos. Intallio is, nevertheless reality, to taste the better of life: slowly, romantically, sometime hungrily against whoever and whatever. Wherever ‘cause the volcanic over-population in a so narrow space. Naples art scene bubbles with more than 7 superb art galleries, four main museums and houses of collectors and seems to be any artists’ most preferred city over centuries. Also many and usually non long-lasting independent projects come and go in the furious glam. The first Naples pavilion ever recalled, is proud to welcome you more on the side of the independents and/or underground, because the curator – the Italian journalist and producer Diana Marrone - is hardly backing them with all her love and enthusiasms. Those independents are always ready to make fiesta with concepts, social issues, geo-referenced projects mixed with a constant practice on the ground and abroad. Among photographers, artists and writers - plenty are the ones could embed the kingdom. This is just a glance in a rush: be curious to know it better. Every day of a year could charm you with Intallio in full bloom. [Intallio is a word from Neapolitan dialect]. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/125543/en/overview-of-naples-pavilion"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/068/125543-400-266.jpg" height="266" width="400" alt="" title="Overview of Naples pavilion" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Overview of Naples pavilion - Mediamatic.net" href="/125543/en/overview-of-naples-pavilion">Overview of Naples pavilion</a> <h3>When the curiosity killed the cat:</h3> <h4>the artists invited to represent Naples at the first Amsterdam Biennale are: Danilo Capasso, Alessandro Cimmino, N.EST (www.napoliest.it); Roberto Paci Dalò, Marco Zezza</h4> When invited by Mediamatic to curate and produce the first Naples Pavilion at the first Amsterdam Biennale, the Italian journalist Diana Marrone immediately decided on the sense of her participation and consequently on what ask to the artists to select. The pavilion has to be focussed either on what Naples is now - despite all the worldwide gossips and rumours about the city and the citizens’ aptitudes – and on the most interesting underground voices Naples expresses. Artists who have chosen to work on high and not banal poetics that are fully embracing the city with its angles and vertigos. Artists who do not close themselves in boundaries. Artists who love to investigate the limits of the Neapolitan life, without forgetting to dig the world, in search of those little quantities of peace the city itself is not able to fulfil. All the selected artist, finally, have been requested to work on Intallio concept and to choose, together with the curator, an artwork able to answer to the expectations on the Pavilion theme and on the nature of the city at the same time. Yes, of course, the artwork has to be representative of their artistic languages, in order to present to the Dutch public some of the most interesting new trends in photography, film, performances, urban initiatives, visual arts made in Naples. The architect and artist Danilo Capasso works on the visual expression of latency with a digital photo triptych and will perform an audiovisual set on October 10th, at the opening of Naples Pavilion with a “best of” N.EST project, an online database and offline think-thank investigating on urban regeneration through the eyes of artists. N.EST project, started on 2004 by Danilo Capasso and some colleagues (included the Pavilion curator Diana Marrone, who is N.EST editor and fundraiser), will be part of the exhibit with a selection of video contributions and some images by the involved artists. The Neapolitan-born and Milan based architect and photographer Alessandro Cimmino who is investigating the world landscape, will present a stunning image of his collection MAY-DAY, the #3, he dedicated to Naples: a long-exposure analogical photo made by the artist on the roofs of Naples on 2007 and printed on long-lasting paper able to be collected forever. As a scream of pain for the un-happy destiny of the city, the artist is willing to exaggerate the Naples proverbial negativity by post-producing the image and adding black on the windows of the portrayed houses: his last act to decree the death of the hopes. As Cimmino uses black for its own sake of despair, the multimedia artist and composer Roberto Paci Dalò who have chosen Naples as his elective city as many artists do and did in the past centuries, loves to tell exactly the contrary with his full black in the movie Dust. Realized during a very prolonged black-out happened in Italy on 27 Sept. 2003, Dust is the deep demonstration of how Naples can cause hate and love in very extreme tastes. While hosted by the Neapolitan artist Oreste Zevola, Paci Dalò, feeling too alone in a big house at Corso Vittorio Emanuele (a long street cutting in half the main hill of the city), embraces his camera and wander out in the night - excited to penetrate an unusual soul of Naples, excited to breath the pure black and silent city. Acclaimed at 57th Locarno Film Festival, the movie will be screened into Naples Pavilion, for the first time in Amsterdam, during all days of the show. Marco Zezza, Neapolitan artist, performer and screen designer born on 1974, who joined N.EST on 2005 and 2008 with two different interventions (both first offline and after online), will present Bordo a video made by subtle and beautiful pictorial interventions that are slowly animated, as in stop motion, by the artist. Bordo tells the history of a very shattered place, Via Brin, on East Naples, where many tourists and residents use to come and go, because there is an huge parking lot and bus station. The street is full of prostitutes and gays who seek for sex. The artist is depicting the physical and chemical reactions happening during sex in order to describe the actual Via Brin main mission: a post-industrial love district. He enjoy as well his deep theatrical aptitude in this artworks. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/124256/en/naples-pavilion-inside-3"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/353/124256-400-266.jpg" height="266" width="400" alt="" title="Naples pavilion inside -3" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Naples pavilion inside -3 - Mediamatic.net" href="/124256/en/naples-pavilion-inside-3">Naples pavilion inside -3</a> <h4>All the invited artists and also N.EST collective project will answer to 3 questions the curator Diana Marrone asked to them on Naples (their answers will be printed on the pavilion walls):</h4> One over a million? Two on 1000? What is your preferite Intallio? Their answers, together with statements or books or info on their creations, will help the visitors to meet better the poetics of the artists and of the city itself. The pavilion will contain also a number of copies of “Reconnecting Naples” a special newspaper on Naples originated by a joint research of Volume Magazine (Amsterdam); Domus Magazine (Milan, Italy); N.EST (www.napoliest.it) managed and fundraised by Diana Marrone (who was also the editor at large), thanks to the commitment and the enthusiasm of Volume, with the editor in chief Arjen Oosterman, the director Lilet Breddels and the editor Christian Ernsten. The magazine has been discussed and planned in occasion of the show “N.EST the making of the city” held on February 2008 at MADRE Museum, Naples and in East suburbs of the city. 30 journalists, architects, designers, photographers, social scientists from 26 to 73 years old, all born in Naples or adopted by the loose womb of the city, answered to a RSVP invitation made by Volume and wrote a newspaper from the bottom, from the rooms of a visual art museum, from the streets of the industrial East suburbs. The tabloid has been read from Kabul to Helsinki, from Washington to Beijing, from Kiwi land to NY. Read it to understand the city. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/124259/en/reconnecting-naples-archis-publication"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/488/124259-400-266.jpg" height="266" width="400" alt="" title="Reconnecting Naples - Archis publication" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Reconnecting Naples - Archis publication - Mediamatic.net" href="/124259/en/reconnecting-naples-archis-publication">Reconnecting Naples - Archis publication</a> Read more about the artists <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/page/125546/en">here</a>, or contact them through: <a href="http://www.pressreleaseundercover.com">www.pressreleaseundercover.com</a> <a href="mailto:prundercover@gmail.com">prundercover [at] gmail.com</a> Read more about <a href="http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp/IDNotizia/29560/IDCategoria/204">the Italian contributions to the Amsterdam Biennale</a> in the newsletter of Art Portal Exibart Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Diana Marrone http://www.mediamatic.net/id/60199 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/104212 2010-01-12T10:32:48+01:00 Kabul Pavilion Coping with the Green Zone - from within and without

Since 2001, key areas in the center of Kabul have progressively been cordoned off from normal access by Afghans to form a kind of Green Zone, where foreign nationals and high-level Afghan returnees can feel secure. This pavilion looks at the Kabul experience from within the international zone, and at strategies of adaptation and eventual reclamation by different Afghan forces kept outside of it: from the Taliban to the democrats. The Kabul pavilion is on view in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic from 16 October 2009 until January 3, 2010.

Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Robert Kluijver http://www.mediamatic.net/id/72352 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/104219 2010-07-16T14:43:49+02:00 Belgrade Pavilion An interactive post-office/workshop

The Belgrade pavilion is an interactive corner. Come and create your artwork and post it at the pavilion! Specially for the Amsterdam Biennale, 12 artists that work or have worked in Belgrade were invited to give a contribution of an artwork for the production of postcards. I only asked that the artwork is in some way connected to the city of Belgrade, being either personal in nature or public.

<h2>Concept:</h2> Postcards by the following artists can be found at the Belgrade pavilion: Natasa Stojanovic, Vladan Jeremic and Rena Raedle, Boris Stanic, Bogdan Vojnovic, Nikola Krstic, Marko Krojac, Bojan Krstic, Jovana Komnenic, Nina Ivanovic, Tijana Krstic, Bojana Volas and Isidora Krstic. These postcards, marking various moments and happenings in Belgrade's history and present, are available for the public to take, but at the same time they are also given a possibility and further encouraged to create their own postcard from a blank one at the pavilion and send it back to one of the authors of the postcards. Sending it back is easy! The Belgrade pavilion is conceived as a mini workshop/post-office. Each author has his/her own mailbox available where you directly post your postcard. At the end of the exhibition the mailboxes will be sent back to the authors as packages. Thank you for contributing! Postcards as a form of art presentation were chosen because of their simplicity and unique way of marking a moment in time. There is an inevitable time span between the moment a postcard is sent and the moment it is received. This grants the receiver an opportunity to recreate and reflect upon the place and moment of creation. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/113049/en/natasa-stojanovic-find-your-way-postcard"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/860/113049-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="Natasa Stojanovic, Find Your Way postcard" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Natasa Stojanovic, Find Your Way postcard - Mediamatic.net" href="/113049/en/natasa-stojanovic-find-your-way-postcard">Natasa Stojanovic, Find Your Way postcard</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/125563/en/nina-ivanovic-narodno-pozorište"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/953/125563-400-267.jpg" height="267" width="400" alt="" title="Nina Ivanovic, Narodno Pozorište" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Nina Ivanovic, Narodno Pozorište - Mediamatic.net" href="/125563/en/nina-ivanovic-narodno-pozorište">Nina Ivanovic, Narodno Pozorište</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/113157/en/vladan-jeremic-and-rena-rädle-monument-series"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/839/113157-400-296.jpg" height="296" width="400" alt="" title="Vladan Jeremic and Rena Rädle, Monument Series postcard" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Vladan Jeremic and Rena Rädle, Monument Series postcard - Mediamatic.net" href="/113157/en/vladan-jeremic-and-rena-rädle-monument-series">Vladan Jeremic and Rena Rädle, Monument Series postcard</a> <h2>Belgrade pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale :</h2> (from October 16, 2009 until January 3, 2010) Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Isidora Krstic http://travel.mediamatic.net/id/23248 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/104192 2010-04-28T12:39:07+02:00 Brooklyn Pavilion, NY October 17 - November 2009

From October 17 until the end of November, curator Caroline Woolard presents the first Brooklyn Pavilion with 'Security Lifestyle' by Adriana Young. More information is here: <a href="http://www.betterthanliving.com/Better/Iraq.html">www.betterthanliving.com/Better/Iraq.html</a> Also have a look at <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/page/126816/en">Brooklyn's second pavilion</a>.

Caroline Woolard is an American artist who made public seating, a swing for the subway, and a barter network for artists. Her thoughts are filled with public interventions, mycology, hydroponics, and community currency. <h4>Oct 17 - Nov 9: Adriana Young - Security Lifestyle!</h4> An instant showroom for luxurious + safe + real, real estate development projects in conﬂict zones, occupied territories and other insecure terrains. From October 16th to November 12th, visitors will experience short audio tours of luxury properties in Iraq, India, Israel and China in the comfort and style of the showroom’s sterile furnishings + one orchid + one handmade item. Security Lifestyle also offers real, real estate information to encourage travel on real guided tours and overnight, trial stays offered by developers. Security Lifestyle offers a gateway to permanent vacation, domestic bliss and securitized escape, without the long-term commitment. Just add orchids, Betterthanliving <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/115099/en/adriana-young-security-lifestyle"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/610/115099-271-400.jpg" height="400" width="271" alt="" title="Adriana Young - Security Lifestyle!" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Adriana Young - Security Lifestyle! - Mediamatic.net" href="/115099/en/adriana-young-security-lifestyle">Adriana Young - Security Lifestyle!</a> <h2>Brooklyn pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale:</h2> Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Caroline Woolard http://travel.mediamatic.net/id/24401 ARTEFACT exhibition 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/109264 2010-01-12T11:06:11+01:00 Melbourne Pavilion Works from Melbourne's 'North-Side'

In a pavilion made of cardboard Helen Grogan presents the work of three artists from Melbourne: Sean Bailey, Courtney Lucas and Nicki Wynnychuck. The Melbourne pavilion opened on Oct 16, at the Official Opening of the Amsterdam Biennale, and will be on view until January 3, 2010.

<h2>Melbourne pavilion in the Amsterdam Biennale:</h2> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/125644/fr/melbourne-pavilion-at-amsterdam-biennale-2009"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/988/125644-400-266.jpg" height="266" width="400" alt="" title="Melbourne Pavilion at Amsterdam Biennale 2009" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Melbourne Pavilion at Amsterdam Biennale 2009 - Mediamatic.net" href="/125644/fr/melbourne-pavilion-at-amsterdam-biennale-2009">Melbourne Pavilion at Amsterdam Biennale 2009</a> Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Helen Grogan http://www.mediamatic.net/id/106579 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/124546 2010-01-20T17:18:59+01:00 Munich Pavilion Ein deutscher Pavillon - A German pavilion

Can architecture pacify the burdened German memory? Can design deal with collective and private grievances from the past? This proposal voices the ambition to stage the re-united state. A public debate is triggered through a unique architectural approach addressing Germany’s problematic history. The World Exhibition still seems to be characterized by the glamorous presentation of a single state. This is unfortunately a fairly superficial image of the nation. Would it be in response be possible to create a more authentic picture of the people living in a country instead of the usual artificial image produced by national powers? The answer is: yes, this is possible, if the right tools are used.

This project focuses on Germany, the country of my birth. The German national image and the profile of its people are constantly changing. The demise of the war generation and the reunification are today changing the national consciousness. Indeed, the World Soccer Championships in 2006 revealed a new relaxed self- perception. Nevertheless the country’s past remains omnipresent in public life. The question remains: How can Germany present itself as a nation in an architectural context, and how can we present an identity which shows the new common spirit and deals with the nation’s past? Let’s here fore highlight the process. As such, the setting up and pulling down of an installation, as well as the actual use of the architecture, could reinforce the new strong common spirit, as long as the participation of the German public is guaranteed. Furthermore, we intend to ask visitors to influence the installation with their memories of the country’s past. <a href="http://www.eindeutscherpavillon.de/">www.eindeutscherpavillon.de/</a> <h3>The Munich pavilion is on view at the Amsterdam Biennale at Mediamatic from 16 October 2009 until 3 January 2010.</h3> Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Sascha Glasl http://www.mediamatic.net/id/14952 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/124549 2010-01-15T16:11:30+01:00 Boston Pavilion friendSlicer

The friendSlicer was developed by Eric Gunther, Andras Sly Szalai and Jeff Lieberman during the Mediamatic Social RFID Hackercamp at PICNIC 2009. Now on view at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009, representing the city of Boston.

friendSlicer enables you to become a central part of a music video starring you and your friends, simply by making some noises. Following some simple prompting, you will enter a few sounds in a videobooth. Your sounds are recorded, and your network of friends is searched to find others who have also entered their own sounds. Your samples together with theirs are cut together to form a unique music video performance, which you will be able to view seconds after you submit your own sounds. Made by: Jeff Lieberman, Andras Sly Szalai & Eric Gunther. Read more <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/page/105737/en">about the friendSlicer at Hackercamp '09 here</a>. Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: - ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/112035 2010-01-04T14:31:55+01:00 EQUINOX Pavilion (Amsterdam) Curated by Femke Dekker

Every week a different band or dj performs in the Equinox pavilion of curator Femke Dekker. From 16 October until 13 December at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. With: Firestone, DJ Stabilo Boss, DJ Aardvarck, DJ Weird Science (Marco & Orpheo), Moon & Sun, Skip & Die, Stellar Om Source, Les Singes and many more.

16 October - Firestone 24 October - DJ Stabilo Boss 31 October - Weird Science 7 November - I Am Oak 14 November - DJ Aardvarck 21 November - Moon & Sun 28 November - King Kong Kobra 5 December - Skip & Die 12 December - Eklin, Stellar Om Source, Hey Kids DJ's Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: - ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/109300 2010-01-10T02:10:14+01:00 Tallinn Pavilion

From October 17 2009 until January 3 2010 at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. By Estonian curator Margit Sade.

The Tallinn pavilion is a wooden stand with 20 different packs of A4 sheets attached to it with office ring binders. Visitors can open the binders, make a magazine from the sheets they like, bind it and take it home as a publication. Each pack contains works by an Estonian artist or designer. All presented works deal with private and public space in Amsterdam and were also made in Amsterdam during different periods of work and study throughout 2000–2009. Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Margit Säde http://www.mediamatic.net/id/99972 ARTICLE 1 http://www.mediamatic.net/id/112033 2010-01-04T14:33:27+01:00 Amsterdam Architecture Pavilion DUS Architecten

From October 17 2009 to January 3 2010 at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic. Traditionally, the architecture pavilion has been a typology of architecture in its purest form, intended for sheer pleasure. User manual: 1. Insert a reasonable amount of money in the coin slot. 2. Take out one cup. 3. Search for the unsealed box in the pavilion. In case the box is empty, open the box with the successive number. 4. Tap. 5. Enjoy!

Note: The 2009 Amsterdam Architecture pavilion is a low-tech utopian gaze in the future of Amsterdam urban environments, envisioned by DUS: Referring to history (the known Dutch tradition of ‘food from the wall’) and future (interactive façade-making), the influence of Islamic ‘jali’ ornamentation and the ideals of Modernism and Grand Master planning. In practice, by building a Berlin-style self-sufficient ‘Weinerei’ DUS wants to test if it is possible to facilitate the informal and temporal in Amsterdam. Let’s have a drink and exchange thoughts! Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: - ARTICLE 1