[Nettime-bold] <<Launch of Re:Duchamp Website, Venice Biennial>>

[cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com>]

*For Immediate Release*
 
Announcing the Launch of the Website for:
"Re: Duchamp Traveling Exhibition" 

La Biennale di Venezia:  
49th International Exhibition of Art-- 
Concomitant Exhibitions

http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp

"The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition is a
project that has been evolving over time. It has
traveled to various cities in Germany, Poland,
Chile and Israel, as well as New York City. It is
the ongoing work of Abraham Lubelski, and
incorporates the work of over 250 other artists,
including Nam June Paik, Dennis Oppenheim, Carl
Andre, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taylor Mead,
Larry Weiner, David Humphrey, Inka Essenhigh....

The Re: Duchamp Travelling Exhibition at the 49th
Venice Biennale* is an installation of
clotheslines from which artwork is hung.** The
idea for this installation is derived from Marcel
Duchamp's infamous benefit exhibition organized
on the Premises of the Coordinating Council of
French Relief Societies, 451 Madison Avenue, New
York, October 14th - November 7th, 1942, in which
he criss-crossed the entire gallery with one mile
of string. This entanglement, which the public
had to negotiate when they came to view the art,
stood as a metaphor for the difficulties
encountered in attempting to understand modern
art.

The current exhibition uses this Duchampian
metaphor to point to connectivity as much as any
difficulty that might hinder an appreciation of
art in the digital age---art whose nature may be
partially or completely ephemeral, time-based, or
immaterial, and which might be conveyed digitally
or housed virtually. Re: Duchamp celebrates the
process of visual sampling in a world where the
line between original and copy has been blurred,
and the medium is the readymade.

** Participating artists were asked to e-mail
their submissions as digital files. These were
printed out, placed in plastic sleeves and
brought to Venice for installation. Hung from
criss-crossing lengths of string at the Church of
S. Maria Ausiliatrice, they resemble so many
Tibetan prayer flags, the wind and the Web
conveying and disseminating their messages.

* At the 49th Venice Biennale, the Re: Duchamp
Travelling Exhibition forms part of the Markers
Project, which involves organizations in Venice
including the Peggy Gugghenheim Collection, the
Biennale Arti Visive, and the Municipality of
Venice itself."     		
									[--notes, Joy Garnett]

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: 
MARK AMERIKA, DANIEL GARCIA ANDUJAR, DOUGLAS
DAVIS, CHRISTOPH DRAEGER, PETER FEND, JOY
GARNETT, PAUL GARRIN, KEN GOLDBERG, WANG GONGXIN,
MARINA GRZINIC & AINA SMID, WENDA GU, INGO
GUNTHER, LIANG-MEI HUANG, JON IPPOLITO, EDUARDO
KAC, OLGA KISSELEVA, TINA LAPORTA, JENNY
MARKETOU, MARCELLO MAZZELLA, PAUL D. MILLER aka
DJ SPOOKY, MTAA, OLU OGUIBE, ANDRES SERRANO, 
HANI RASHID (ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTS), MARK TRIBE &
KERRY TRIBE

Curated by: CRISTINE WANG
http://www.tribes.org/dystopia
Media Sponsor: NY ARTS MAGAZINE
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com
Web Design: FIRST PULSE PROJECTS
http://www.firstpulseprojects.org

For More Information contact: Cristine Wang 
email: crisarc2000@cs.com  tel: 917.318.0081

http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/duchamp

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