RELAY, Venice Biennale of Architecture
16-17 July 20211
Performance
Exhibition
Curation
16-17 July 20211
Performance
Exhibition
Curation
RELAY,
Venice Biennale of Architecture, 16-17 July 2021
RELAY, curated Adam Kaasa, Thandi Loewenson and David Burns of Fiction Feeling Frame, is a durational conversation, a ritual in circumferential publicness, a performance becoming telegraph, current, message. RELAY is a 24-hour global conversation hosted by the Biennale Architettura 2021. RELAY will chase the hour between noon and 1pm around the planet in a global act of transfer— holding time and space for one another, passing ideas on, and on, and on— moving across time zones while continually staying in the present.
In response to Biennale Architettura 2021 curator Hashim Sarkis’ framing statement ‘How will we live together?’, RELAY will gather over 50 architects, artists, activists, curators and designers around questions of building a collective voice: ‘How can we speak to one another? How can we speak together?’
We are not the first. RELAY builds on previous experiments, giving thanks to those who have come before including but not limited to: Artangel’s Long Player Assembly, Occupy Wall Street’s ‘people’s microphone’, the Serpentine marathons, early television broadcast through the ill fated Telstar 1 rocket, the work of Lois Weaver like ‘The Long Table’, notes hidden in tennis balls thrown between cell blocks on Robben Island, miles of 2-inch magnetic tape containing photographs of every square inch of the Moon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory opening a Deep Space Station in Australia by bouncing a live voice connection off of the surface of the Moon. Taking RELAY as a method as well as an injunction, we pick up the baton of these performances and practices with the RELAY from Venice today.
RELAY begins at 12:00 in Venice (CET) on Friday 16 July 2021, and ends at 12:00 in Venice on Saturday 17 July 2021.
RELAY satellite events will occur in Accra, Ghana at the African Futures Institute; in Sydney, Australia at Frontyard; and in London, U.K. at Filet Space.
RELAY is supported by WePresent, the digital arts platform of WeTransfer, and the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art.
See full RELAY website.
RELAY, curated Adam Kaasa, Thandi Loewenson and David Burns of Fiction Feeling Frame, is a durational conversation, a ritual in circumferential publicness, a performance becoming telegraph, current, message. RELAY is a 24-hour global conversation hosted by the Biennale Architettura 2021. RELAY will chase the hour between noon and 1pm around the planet in a global act of transfer— holding time and space for one another, passing ideas on, and on, and on— moving across time zones while continually staying in the present.
In response to Biennale Architettura 2021 curator Hashim Sarkis’ framing statement ‘How will we live together?’, RELAY will gather over 50 architects, artists, activists, curators and designers around questions of building a collective voice: ‘How can we speak to one another? How can we speak together?’
We are not the first. RELAY builds on previous experiments, giving thanks to those who have come before including but not limited to: Artangel’s Long Player Assembly, Occupy Wall Street’s ‘people’s microphone’, the Serpentine marathons, early television broadcast through the ill fated Telstar 1 rocket, the work of Lois Weaver like ‘The Long Table’, notes hidden in tennis balls thrown between cell blocks on Robben Island, miles of 2-inch magnetic tape containing photographs of every square inch of the Moon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory opening a Deep Space Station in Australia by bouncing a live voice connection off of the surface of the Moon. Taking RELAY as a method as well as an injunction, we pick up the baton of these performances and practices with the RELAY from Venice today.
RELAY begins at 12:00 in Venice (CET) on Friday 16 July 2021, and ends at 12:00 in Venice on Saturday 17 July 2021.
RELAY satellite events will occur in Accra, Ghana at the African Futures Institute; in Sydney, Australia at Frontyard; and in London, U.K. at Filet Space.
RELAY is supported by WePresent, the digital arts platform of WeTransfer, and the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art.
See full RELAY website.
RELAY, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 16-17 July 2021.