Encyclopedia of Relations
 

by Alexandra Pirici

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59th Venezia Arte Biennale 

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Ongoing performative action hinged on embodiments of collective relations as seen in biology and botany, as well as those negotiated in more abstract interactions - between musical tones, humans and technology, rocks and waves, plants and animals, and more. Taking inspiration from symbolic living arrangements and other forms of reciprocal action, performers combine and recombine a set of elements - open to future additions - into a larger, reconfigurable structures. Reminiscent a Surrealist "exquisite corpse" game, through the body, the natural merges with that of the fantastic.

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Performers - Céline Bellut, Matilda Bjärum, Liliana Ferri, Danila Gambettola, Daouda Keita, Raymond Liew Jin Pin, Jared Marks, Emily Ranford, Valentina Restrepo, Robert Schulz, Leonardo Sinopoli, Jennifer Tchiakpe, Xiao Huang, Patrick Ziza

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Masks design - Andrei Dinu