Victoria Malcolm

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Biennale Babble

Gabrielle Mollett responds to Martin Holman’s brief “We can’t talk anymore. Words spilt or spoken are the alta acqua of the Venice Biennale.”

Are words flooding the 2015 Venice Biennale? What effect has the onslaught of words in installations, documentaries and performance on the visitor? Is this linguistic alta acqua rendering words meaningless?

This year’s biennale titled ‘All the world’s futures’ focuses on global concerns and challenged artists to be specific yet universal. Tobias Zielony’s documentation in the German Pavilion about immigrants living in Germany voices their views of what it is like to be a refuge in the wealthiest EU country. Although these often thought provoking interviews are convincing and certainly authentic, one can’t help but feel that whilst this is a worthwhile project there is a kind of worthiness attached to it that undermines the real plight of these immigrants. Are such overtly political art projects seeking two…

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Swallow the gap

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Jade Montserrat responds to Shonagh Manson’s brief “It’s easy to despise the super yachts lining the grand canal as objects and symbols of privilege and inequality, but what more can the stories of the people who live and work on them tell us about the circulation of power?” – oh cool – yeah – so…

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