Venice Biennale 2013 on the Web

Collected by: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

Archived since: May, 2013

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This collection of blogs, social media sites, video, and organizational websites documents the international art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2013. The crawl began April 28, 2013 and continues through to the end of the exhibition in November. An initiative undertaken by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library and its partner Archive-It, the Venice Biennale web project complements the Clark’s Venice Biennale Collection of exhibition catalogues, press kits, and ephemera beginning with the 52nd Biennale in 2007.

Subject: 2013 Venice Biennale

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Title: Cai Yuan & Jian Jun Xi, Scream, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2013. Video

URL: http://vimeo.com/67433096

Description: Inspired by the Norwegian artist’s most famous painting, Cai Yuan and JJ Xi invited volunteers to take part in a performance of their own interpretation of ‘The Scream’, filmed in 2005 on the very bridge in Norway where Edvard Munch received his idea back in 1893. Cai & Xi, who gained international fame as the artists’ duo ‘Mad for Real’ by jumping naked on Tracey Emin’s bed, went on to perform ‘The Scream’ for the first time as a public intervention at Tate Modern and on the Millennium Bridge, London in 2012. The two Chinese artists see their interpretation of ‘The Scream’ as an expression of human existence – of reality, spirituality and humanity: “…a revolution exploding in the depths of your soul.” The ‘Scream’ series of performances is supported by the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art (occa-art.com), China Live Art (chinaliveart.com) and the artists’ network Artbetween (artbetween.org) Mad For Real (Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi)’s oeuvre has continually questioned the relationship of power to the individual. Using a position of resistance Cai and Xi have consistently produced work which is necessarily oppositional yet the warmth and humour of their work also acts to draw viewers in. Their performances have taken place as radical gestures calling to mind notorious artists of earlier radical art movements but the historical, linguistic and political context of their practice is often related specifically to their origins: China.

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Subject: Biennale di Venezia (55th : 2013)

Creator: Helen Marshall

Publisher: Vimeo

Format: Mixed

Type: Interactive resource

Collector: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

Title: Salon Suisse, Panel with Monica Juneja and Jörg Scheller, Venice Biennale 2013, 1st June, Palazzo Trevisan Venice, Pro Helvetia on Vimeo

URL: http://vimeo.com/67520781

Description: The Loss and Gain of Place. Contemporary Art in a Translocal Perspective Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja (University of Heidelberg) and Jörg Scheller (curator of the Salon Suisse) Venice Biennale 2013