20 April 2020 • Mark Westall
SCHQ Electric presents Helen Marten’s Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom, 2013. The digitally animated video forms the focal point of an eponymously titled room-sized installation, conceived of for the 55th Venice Biennale.
23 July 2013 • Yvette
‘I think I’ve always had my ears open for snatches of stories about people (hearsay, and little half-truth stories)’.
10 June 2013 • Mark Westall
A short video roundup of the sites from The 5th Venice Biennale from our friends Crane.TV
7 June 2013 • Mark Westall
I’m sitting on a plastic chair in the tiny front room of a dusty Venetian Palazzo. Just in front of me is a rickety looking cat walk and around me fellow enthusiasts in varying degrees of eccentric attire chat in hushed tones. It’s like London Fashion Week. Only not quite.
5 June 2013 • Mark Westall
The video installation was completely beautiful and genuinely harrowing. It touched on so many of the threads that ran through the rest of the Biennale – the relationship between documenting subject and documented object; the resistance of the world’s complexities to singular narrative overlay; the overlooked and oppressed; the violence of exclusion – but with so much more urgency, dexterity and force. Totally brilliant.
4 June 2013 • Mark Westall
What gives? As for the work, well, what work, really? It’s essentially artists doing variations on wallpaper. Needless to say, I didn’t love it.
3 June 2013 • Mark Westall
I really hated this – Deller’s pseudo-inclusive schtick really riles me because it’s the same old self-serving art cliques who benefit from his success and ‘the people’ who he seems so keen to represent don’t really stand to gain a thing.
29 May 2013 • Mark Westall
From wildlife attacking the super-rich to a mural of Roman Abramovich’s yacht being cast into the waves, Deller’s British pavilion strikes a combative note
27 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The Palazzo is a live space for new ideas and co-?production, cultivating exciting relationships between people. It welcomes its audience as guests and participants. A home from home for an ever-?expanding network of creative people. The Palazzo interiors have been commissioned from international artists.
