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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:01:53 -0500
From: "Timothy J. Anderson" <ta10+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: AD HOC - Space in Venice
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AD HOC
Did you know you have a space in Venice?
In Venice there is a vast garden containing twenty-eight buildings of
radically different architectural style. This spectacular waterfront
property remains vacant and wasted for the majority of the time - closed
with a stone gate that you can jump over - except for a single event
held in the summer every two years. This garden belongs to the state of
Italy but each building is owned by the country that designed and built
it. This is a place originally dedicated to international communication
and exchange through the language of art. It is currently inhabited
only by cats and insects.
What if we open the stone gate?
We are asking you to consider your position in relation to your
country's pavillion. Who has the key? What if artists in each country
take responsibility to activate their own pavillion when it is usually
closed? Maybe this year two pavillions will be opened, maybe next year,
five, and the year after that, fifteen.
You are invited to act.
Send this letter to others. Ask questions. Contact Ad Hoc to find a
representative in your country. Your interaction can initiate an
irresistible change in the use of the Biennale garden. Rather than a
display cabinet for state controlled art politics, it can become a place
for experiment and creative exchange.
AD HOC representatives in countries with pavillions:
Austria:
Belgium:
USSR (sic):
Egypt:
Denmark:
Great Britain:
Brasil:
Canada:
France:
Japan:
Greece:
Iceland:
Israel:
Italy: San Marco 1776, Venice, 30124 - phone/fax: 39-41-5234615
Yugoslavia (sic):
Netherlands:
Finland:
Norway:
Sweden:
Poland:
Federal Republic of Germany (sic):
Rumania:
Spain:
United States: 7002 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60626 - phone/fax: 312-761-7144
Switzerland:
Uruguay:
Hungary:
Venezuela:
If your country does not have a pavillion, contact someone in a country
that is not yet represented.
For more information, contact AD HOC in Chicago at 7002 N. Clark St.,
Chicago, IL, 60626 - phone/fax: 312-761-7144 or AD HOC in Venice at San
Marco 1776, Venice, 30124 - phone/fax: 39-41-5234615.
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Message-ID: <If=YT1600WBLM5O20Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:01:53 -0500
From: "Timothy J. Anderson" <ta10+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: AD HOC - Space in Venice
Lines: 67
AD HOC
Did you know you have a space in Venice?
In Venice there is a vast garden containing twenty-eight buildings of
radically different architectural style. This spectacular waterfront
property remains vacant and wasted for the majority of the time - closed
with a stone gate that you can jump over - except for a single event
held in the summer every two years. This garden belongs to the state of
Italy but each building is owned by the country that designed and built
it. This is a place originally dedicated to international communication
and exchange through the language of art. It is currently inhabited
only by cats and insects.
What if we open the stone gate?
We are asking you to consider your position in relation to your
country's pavillion. Who has the key? What if artists in each country
take responsibility to activate their own pavillion when it is usually
closed? Maybe this year two pavillions will be opened, maybe next year,
five, and the year after that, fifteen.
You are invited to act.
Send this letter to others. Ask questions. Contact Ad Hoc to find a
representative in your country. Your interaction can initiate an
irresistible change in the use of the Biennale garden. Rather than a
display cabinet for state controlled art politics, it can become a place
for experiment and creative exchange.
AD HOC representatives in countries with pavillions:
Austria:
Belgium:
USSR (sic):
Egypt:
Denmark:
Great Britain:
Brasil:
Canada:
France:
Japan:
Greece:
Iceland:
Israel:
Italy: San Marco 1776, Venice, 30124 - phone/fax: 39-41-5234615
Yugoslavia (sic):
Netherlands:
Finland:
Norway:
Sweden:
Poland:
Federal Republic of Germany (sic):
Rumania:
Spain:
United States: 7002 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60626 - phone/fax: 312-761-7144
Switzerland:
Uruguay:
Hungary:
Venezuela:
If your country does not have a pavillion, contact someone in a country
that is not yet represented.
For more information, contact AD HOC in Chicago at 7002 N. Clark St.,
Chicago, IL, 60626 - phone/fax: 312-761-7144 or AD HOC in Venice at San
Marco 1776, Venice, 30124 - phone/fax: 39-41-5234615.