Angelica Mesiti at the 58th Venice Biennale, 8 May – 24 November 2019
Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Angelica Mesiti will be representing Australia this year in the 58th Venice Biennale. Her exhibition ASSEMBLY, curated by Juliana Engberg, will open at the Australian Pavilion on the 8th of May 2019.
ASSEMBLY is a multimedia and multi-layered visual work that uses metaphor, music, poetry and performance to suggest ways communities can come together. Mesiti used Italian stenographic “Michela” machine to re-code a poem To Be Written in Another Tongue by Australian writer, David Malouf. Translated into a musical score by Australian composer, Max Lyandvert, it is played by an ensemble of musicians while performers from different cultures respond to the sound piece.
ASSEMBLY runs from May 8–November 24, 2019.
_
Image: Angelica Mesiti, ASSEMBLY (production still), 2019. Three-channel video installation in architectural amphitheater. HD video projections, color, six-channel mono sound, 25 min, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale.
RECENT NEWS
Art Guide: Mikala Dwyer on mysticism, daydreaming and ‘not-knowing’
Tiarney Miekus recently interviewed Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Mikala Dwyer for Art Guide Australia. On the occasion of Dwyer’s exhibition Bird at Roslyn Oxley9 in Sidney, Miekus writes: Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a...
‘Octopus 21: On Fire’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 26th June – 15 August 2021.
The works by Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett are included in Octopus 21: On Fire curated by Tim Riley Walsh: Octopus 21: On Fire is an iteration of Riley Walsh’s exhibition and publication project On Fire: Climate and Crisis...
