[spectre] The Invisible Pavilion | 54th International Art Exhibition | Venice Biennale

[Guy McMusker]

54th Art Biennale 2011
04.06 27.11
Giardini | Venice


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


*The Invisible Pavilion | 54th International Art Exhibition | Venice
Biennale
*
- Preview: 1-2-3 June 2011
- Opening to the public: 4 June > 27 November 2011
Venice, Giardini and all over the world on the Internet

Press conference and a tour on 1 June at 5pm, Giardini (main concourse, in
the shade near Belgium Pavilion). In partnership with Manifest.AR.

Curated by Simona Lodi and Les Liens Invisibles

*The art, my friend, is flowing in the wind.
*
The Invisible Pavilion is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory
augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice
Art Biennale as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks
will fill the whole area of the Giardini.
The main purpose of the project is to fill the augmented space of the
Biennale with a stream of signs and symbols, in an attempt to emphasize the
ebb and flow of art production in the “always-on” age.

Anyone with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone and
Layar) will be able to move around the traditional pavilions in the Giardini
area of the Biennale and see, through their phone screens, another
immaterial/invisible exhibition.

For the entire length of the Venice Art Biennale (June–November 2011) a
group of selected international artists have been invited to give their
personal contribution to the project, by performing/posting multimedia
pieces that should somehow reinterpret the public space of the Biennale and
its symbolic aura in the field of contemporary art. The artworks will also
be visible on the Internet, on the Invisible Pavilion website.

As Simona Lodi says in the curatorial text, “The Invisible Pavilion is a
hallucinatory experience of rewriting the world, an encouragement to
increase the whirl and flow of information on invisible r/Reality. The
Invisible Pavilion contains a r/Reality that is open and spontaneous, drawn
and analysed from shared data. The double r reflects its double
connotation—the lower case r refers to the everyday reality that we all
know; the upper case R to a proprietary name, the augmented Reality that is
produced.“

Participating Artists

Artie Vierkant ● Costant Dullaart ● CONT3XT.NET <http://cont3xt.net/> ●
IOCOSE ● Jon Rafman ● Les Liens Invisibles ● Molleindustria ● Parker Ito ●
REFF–RomaEuropa FakeFactory

Contacts

Email: info at theinvisiblepavilion.com

Links and References

www.theinvisiblepavilion.com

Download Hi-res pictures
http://goo.gl/am34H

In cooperation with Manifest.AR International Cyberartist Group

BIO

*Simona Lodi*, art critic and curator, lives in Turin. Since 1993 she has
been a contributor to various leading contemporary art journals. Simona's
professional career spans New York, London and Turin—a city that has
embraced the world of new technology and communication. It is in this
context that the Share Festival–Art in the Digital Age, of which Simona is
founder and Art Director, has found fertile ground to grow and develop.

*Les Liens Invisibles* is an Italian-based duo of internet artists, Clemente
Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Most of their artworks—which include an
online viral mass suicide performance, an hallucinatory petition service and
a series of other works staged on popular social media platforms—have been
exhibited internationally in galleries, museums (MAXXI Rome, New School of
New York, KUMU Art Museum of Talinn) and international media art festivals
(SHARE, Transmediale). Les Liens Invisibles recently received an honorary
distinction at the Transmediale Media Art Festival (2011).

-- 
Guy McMusker
Les Liens Invisibles
www.lesliensinvisibles.org
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