CPS curates the
Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale
We are delighted
to announce the apointment of the curator collective Chamber of Public Secrets
(CPS) to curate the first Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in
2013.
Portable Nation
Disappearance as
work in progress – approaches to Eco-Romanticism
Climate experts
are divided in their scientific opinion on the issue of climate change. The
recognized opinion is that Earth’s climate system is unequivocally warming, and
that it is certain that humans are causing it. Other climate scientists stand
firm on their position that climate change and rising sea water levels is a
recurring natural phenomenon that has become heavily politizised and misused by
organizations, governments and politicians with different motives.
There is no
absolute agreement in the public perception of this controversy either.
However, according to one of the scientific positions, the Maldives is
estimated to disappear under the ocean in the year 2080. If this is the case
with this compact micro nation, we are currently witnessing the direct
consequences of the global ecological tragedy in progress, perhaps making the
Maldives the first movable prototype nation ready to pack up and relocate.
In order for the
Maldives to appear again as a nation at another designated location / land, the
Maldivians are in the process of collecting, archiving and preserving every
detail of their existence.
The Maldives
Pavilion is a theoretical research project consisting of several public
events in the Maldives and Venice including exhibitions, publication, seminars
and a documentary film. It debates environmental events related to social
and cultural life, to the notion of nation without territory, climate change
law and environmental politics.
Artists and
contributors from around the world will be invited to contribute works related
to contemporary environmental romanticism. Collectively they will form a
portable micro exhibition positioned inside a transparent colorless space, easy
and ready to be moved to another location as a symbol of the Maldivian case.
Our notion of the
portable pavilion is based on a romantic review. It reflects how artists and
thinkers from around the world share with the Maldivians the concern of preservation
by presenting solutions to our ecological situation. Hence the pavilion
presents a collection of thoughts on preserving and archiving the Maldivian
memory and history, and a visual representation of the sinking paradise.
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