The milk of dreams = Il latte dei sogni : Biennale arte 2022 / managing editor, Manuela Hansen; texts, Isabella Achenbach, Liv Cuniberti, Manuela Hansen, Melanie Kress, Stefano Mudu, Ian Wallace, Madeline Weisburg.
Catalog of 59th Biennale di Venezia, held at various locations, Venice, Italy, April 23-November 27, 2022. "La Biennale di Venezia : arte, architettura, cinema, danza, musica, teatro, archivio storico." Issued in a case. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Volume 1. Exhibition. Introduction / Roberto Cicutto -- The milk of dreams / Cecilia Alemani interviewed by Marta Papini -- Acknowledgements / Cecilia Alemani -- The debutante / Leonora Carrington -- Central Pavilion, Giardini -- The witch's cradle - historical capsule. Daughters of the minotaur : women surrealists' re-enchantment of the world / Alyce Mahon -- Corps orbite - historical capsule. Body language / Jennifer Higgie -- Essays. Viral spiral, or seven twists in a witch's duel / Marina Warner -- Posthuman critical theory / Rosi Braidotti -- Technologies of enchantment - historical capsule. Surprising / Azalea Seratoni -- Conversation. On re-enchantment and chi'xi -- Arsenale -- A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container - historical capsule. What could a vessel be? / Christina Sharpe -- The carrier bag theory of fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Sowing worlds : a seed bag for terraforming with earth others / Donna J. Haraway -- It misses you / Mel Y. Chen -- Seduction of the cyborg - historical capsule. The cyborg as producer / Matthew Biro -- Essays. Meditation on the second creation / Achille Mbembe -- Novel corona : posthuman virus / N. Katherine Hayles -- On technodiversity / Yuk Hui and Anders Dunder in conversation -- Of owls and things / Jack Halberstam -- Glossary : incomplete and in order of appearance, from 9 March 2020 to 26 April 2021, partial and emotional, like memory / Chiara Valerio -- The long journey of Miss Clara (quasi-theatrical monologue of a captive rhinoceros) -- Pavilion of Applied Arts special project -- Forte Marghera special project -- List of works -- Biennale College Arte. [Volume 2]. Participating countries and collateral events.
Summary:
The 59th International Art Exhibition, in Venice from 23 April to 27 November 2022, is titled The Milk of Dreams. Named after a book by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), the Exhibition takes the artist's fanciful creatures and many other figures of transformation as companions on an imaginary journey through metamorphoses of the body and of humanity. Volume I of the Catalogue is dedicated to the International Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani. This volume includes the Curator's original contribution as well as a wide range of illustrations and critical essays by some of today's most cutting-edge thinkers and writers. Each artist is introduced by a critical text as well as an iconographic apparatus. This volume also includes a wide array of original writing, conversations, and reprinted texts that capture many of the concerns set forth by the Exhibition while expanding to broader and equally timely preoccupations. Volume II of the Catalogue presents the National Participations and the Collateral Events of the 59th International Art Exhibition. It includes lavishly illustrated texts exploring the various projects that will be on display in Venice from 23 April to 27 November 2022. The graphic identity of the Biennale Arte 2022 and the publications' design are by A Practice for Everyday Life, London.
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