High Season in Venice

Instead of being focused on a curated exhibition, Research Pavilion #3 in Venice offers a space for parallel processes of exhibiting, performing, exposing and discussing artistic research.

Each research cell has produced their own section in the Sala del Camino, creating a vibrant, changing space that showcases the multiple methods and practices of conducting artistic research. Some sections are arranged as exhibitions, some build on participation or performative research. 

The artist researchers involved will also work together in residency periods in Venice as well as organise events, workshops, performances and discussions open to the public. Each opening day the Pavilion will offer moderated hours, inviting visitors to have a conversation with artist researchers who have taken part in the Research Pavilion project.

 

Research Pavilion #3: Research Ecologies

May 9 – August 28, 2019, open 10 am – 6 pm.

Moderated hours 10 am – 12 noon. Closed on Tuesdays.

Free entry

 

Address

Sala del Camino
Campo S. Cosmo 621
Giudecca, Venice

 

Programme

 

All information is subject to change.

 

Opening on May 8 2019, 5.30 pm until 8.30 pm, Electronic Chamber Music will perform a concert-installation

 

9 May at 1–4 pm & 10 May at 1–4 pm
Foaming Exercise

A performative installation by Maiju Loukola and Paul Cegys, using the term foam as both noun and verb (foaming) in order to explore foam-like spatial formations at the intersection of physical, imaginary and virtual space, as well as in terms of space as socio-political construct.
AIRA

 

9 May at 6–7 pm
Insect Karaoke

The audience is invited to listen to sounds produced by insects and to imitate and interpret them using contact microphones and DIY instruments of kitchenware. A playful happening facilitated by Tuula Närhinen, Esa Kirkkopelto and Otso Lähdeoja. Visit also Tuula Närhinen’s exhibition “Entomological Encounters” and “Memorial to an Earthworm” in the courtyard.
TRACES FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE: INSECTS AMONG US
TERRITORIES :: DIALECTS

 

May 11 at 10 am – 12 noon
Including institutions themselves
 

A public morning session as a contribution of the exchange in the research cell “Through Phenomena Themselves”, proposing and inquiry into research practices developed in two fields — artistic research and phenomenology. Panel conversation involving Alex Arteaga, Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus, Nikolaus Gansterer, Margarete Jahrmann, Ralo Mayer, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Charlotta Ruth, Katarina Šoškić.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES

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13 May
Research Practices on Place  

This event will introduce and initiates a dialogue between different forms of inquiry on places, spaces and environments through three formats – lectures, workshops, and life research – by focusing on three topics: awareness/perception, notation/registration, narratives/gestures.. Sign-up will be opened later.
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES
SHELTERS

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22 May 6-8.30pm
Climate Change, Globalization and the Art World

The aim of the gathering is to discuss and analyse the city of Venice and its fragile ecological history, the system of the international art world and mega-shows like the Venice Biennale and to search for new and sustainable ways to work as an artist today in this context.

Programme:

Talk by Leonardo Caffo: ”Anticipationism and Anthropocene”

Art students from Helsinki (University of the Arts Helsinki) and Utrecht (HKU University of the Arts) discuss about alternative and coal neutral travel to Venice and elsewhere.

UNIARTS HELSINKI

 

Workshops in June

Disruptive Processes are constituted as non-hierarchical open workshops in which knowledge is reciprocated and embodied. The Disruptive Processes research cell initiates methods that make societal, communal and artistic collaboration possible in five workshops.

3–14 June: Temporary Agora

21 May and 6 June: Feminist Gathering

10, 12 & 15 June: where did art go? / get lost!

12, 13, 14 & 15 June: Ajauksia: Sensory Experiences in Urban Space.

12–14 June: Wording — Collaborative Writing in Public Space.

DISRUPTIVE PROCESSES

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16–18 June
Convocation | on Expanded Language-based Practices

Convocation – a call to come together, a gathering of expanded language-based practices. Weaving between artistic research and phenomenological approaches, this three-day event will include open workshops, live research, collective writing/reading exercises, and performative lectures. 
THROUGH PHENOMENA THEMSELVES
DISRUPTIVE PROCESSES
AIRA

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19 June, 10 am
Points of view. Politics of Perspective in the Age of Post-Truth.

Venue: Palazzo Badoer, aula Tafuri. Address: Calle della Lacca, San Polo 2468 Venezia.

A seminar created and hosted by Emmanuel Alloa and Francesco Zucconi and discussants Francesco Bergamo and Angela Mengoni, members of the Research Pavilion #3 research cell “Through Phenomena Themselves”.

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20 June, 3–6pm
AIRA Re-Born

Artistic Intelligence Research Alternator AIRA is a constellation of five research initiatives by five artist-researchers, launched at the Research Pavilion opening in May. In this event, AIRA's evolution and transformation towards a more independent creature will be performed, demonstrated and discussed.
AIRA

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20–21 August
Material Encounters

A two-day programme, including a concert-lecture that showcases the outcomes of a residency period, during which musicians and ceramists worked side-to-side forming a parallel discussion of musical and gestural rhythms. The audience is welcomed to work with local clay. The event also includes discussions and presentations on materiality, archipelagic thinking, and the intertwined relationship between humans and soil.
TERRITORIES :: DIALECTS
TRACES FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE: SOIL
CEMETERY ARCHIPELAGO

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24 August

Assembly of Journals

In August the Research Pavilion -project brings together several journals that are publishing research in the arts. The key idea of this collegial assembly is to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas about shared interests, challenges, and possible forms of future cooperation.

Among the confirmed participants are representatives of Journal for Artistic Research, RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research, Journal of Visual Culture, MaHKUscript – Journal of Fine Art Research, and VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. The event is open to all interested. We especially encourage editors, reviewers, contributors and readers interested in artistic research to join us. 

 

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26 – 31 August

The 5th Nida Doctoral School: ‘Fight The Power 2019/1989: We, the Ungovernable’

The Nida Doctoral School (NDS) will be held at the Lithuanian Pavilion, the Research Pavilion and additional environments in Venice. Entitled ‘Fight The Power’, this year’s Nida Doctoral School is energized by the 30th anniversary of Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ and its opening credit sequence soundtrack-ed by Public Enemy. Convinced by the radical potentialities of research-as-praxis, NDS utilises this 30th anniversary to ask: what does it mean to do the right thing?

 

The open call to join this year’s NDS has closed in March and the participating students have been selected.

Read more about the Nida Doctoral School in Venice