Central Asian Pavilion opening day

30.05.2013

9h00 - 11h00

Palazzo Malipiero, 1st floor

San Marco 3079

Opening Reception & Breakfast Forum "Perspectives beyond Stagnation"

During the preview of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (29 - 30 May 2013), the Central Asian Pavilion will host the opening reception and breakfast forum in collaboration with the curators of LIAF 2013 (Lofoten International Art Festival), Anne Szefer Karlsen, Bassam El Baroni and Eva González-Sancho. Speakers include historian of social and political thoughtGopal Balakrishnan (History of Consciousness Department, UCSC) with a talk on “Further Convolutions of Capitalism” and philosopher and writer Aaron Schuster, who will address issues of transgression and constraint. This will be followed by an open discussion and tour of the exhibition with the curators, Tiago Bom andAyat Tuleubek and represented artists of WINTER,Kamilla Kurmanbekova & Erlan Tuyakov, Anton Rodin & Sergey Chutkov, Aza Shade and Saodat Ismailova.

19h00

Central Asian Pavilion

Palazzo Malipiero, 1st floor

San Marco 3079

Screening of "Mocracy - Neverland in Me" by Christian von Borries

During the preview of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (29 - 30 May 2013), the self-censored version for Kazakhstan of the film "Mocracy - Neverland in Me" (2012) will be screened as a European premiere and followed by a discussion with the director Christian von Borries.

Synopsis:

Since the 1980s, this world has been characterized by four developments: the growth of political democracy, the growth of Online Democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. Mocracy examines consumerism, capitalism, oppression, misery rule and the help industry. People become a mass ornament, architecture a tuning tool for societies, self optimizing in file. Charity is the other side of democracy, while democracy appeares as a lifestyle option for the rich.

Michael Jackson is the soundtrack of the neoliberal 80s, a choreography of democracy. The film itself is imitating democracy in a nutshell, representing a failing polyphonie. In this sense, Mocracy is a musical journey through Kasachstan, Kosovo, Pyonyong, Detroit, Moscow and Berlin, a neverland, the utopia of a non-place. Thus, the film clip serves as a disappropriation of the individual torso.

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