Category Archives: Performance

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. Representing Sweden at the 56th Biennale di Venezia 2015, she has compiled a group of works and documents describing a migration between utopia and collapse, where technological or ideological…

UTTER: The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

“UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope”, a new project by JAŠA, representing Slovenia at the 56th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition. The project’s title embraces the very core of JAŠA’s aim to create an artwork as both a poetic stance and a dynamic, politicized presence.…

Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word, United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

For the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, the MIT List Visual Arts Center commissioned Joan Jonas, a pioneering figure in video and performance art, to create a new multimedia installation that occupied the entirety of the U.S. Pavilion’s five galleries. The installation incorporates Jonas’ iconic blend…

Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Act I, scene 3, 360° Video, São Paulo Municipal Theater

“Lohengrin”, by Wagner, in 360º at the São Paulo Municipal Theater. São Paulo Municipal Theater opens its curtains for experimentation with various cutting-edge technologies, recording of our montage of Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with 360 degree cameras. In the video above, you will be able to see not only how our…