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Antoni Muntadas

UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

A101 (Upstairs A Block – The Old Library)

Thursday, 13 April, 2023, 1-2pm

 

Antoni Muntadas is an artist and professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, until 2016 he was also professor at the School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Through his work he addresses social, political and communication issues such as the relationship between public and private space, and investigates media and the way they may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums, including MoMA (New York), Berkeley Art Museum, Musée Contemporain de Montreal and Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (Madrid). He has also presented works in international events like the Documenta Kassel, the Whitney Biennial of American Art and the Venice Biennial.

23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022)

 

The 23rd Biennale of Sydney will be open to the public from 12 March to 13 June 2022. 

 

 

Rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems feature in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), titled rīvus, as dynamic living systems with varying degrees of political agency. Indigenous knowledges have long understood non-human entities as living ancestral beings with a right to life that must be protected. But only recently have animals, plants, mountains and bodies of water been granted legal personhood. If we can recognise them as individual beings, what might they say?

 

rīvus invites several aqueous beings into a dialogue with artists, architects, designers, scientists, and communities, entangling multiple voices and other modes of communication to ask unlikely questions: Can a river sue us over psychoactive sewage? Will oysters grow teeth in aquatic revenge? What do the eels think? Are the swamp oracles speaking in tongues? Do algae reminisce about the days of primordial soup? Are waves the ocean’s desire?

 

 

Artistic Director José Roca and the Curatorium are excited to announce the first participants of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, among which is Caio Reisewitz.

 

 

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