{"id":13116,"date":"2016-06-24T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T07:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2016-07-04T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:14:08","slug":"discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/06\/24\/discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s growing &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; staged soon at the SP Biennial with some visual and sexual doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13116 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/06\/24\/discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty\/fbsp-pavilhao-bienal-aereas\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FBSP_6131_FBSP_110402_RA_024-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13117\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13117'>\n\t\t\t\tPavilh\u00e3o Bienal, S\u00e3o Paulo. \u00a9 Roman Atamanczuk \/ Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/06\/24\/discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty\/fbsp-captacao-pavilhao-bienal\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FBSP_6102_FBSP_110224_AO_004-480x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13118\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13118'>\n\t\t\t\tPavilh\u00e3o Bienal, S\u00e3o Paulo. \u00a9 Andres Otero \/ Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/06\/24\/discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty\/32bsp-artistas-imagens-para-anuncio\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FBSP_24844_32BSP_LuizRoque_LISTA_017-480x241.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13119\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13119'>\n\t\t\t\tLuiz Roque, Ano branco [White Year], 2013, HD video, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul (MARGS), Porto Alegre. Courtesy of the artist and S\u00e9 Galeria, S\u00e3o Paulo]\nFoto\/photo: Luiz Roque.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2016\/06\/24\/discouraged-by-the-trump-dilma-and-he-brexit-the-sp-biennial-is-exploring-this-live-uncertainty\/the-measure-of-her-hips\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-measure-of-her-hips-448x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13120\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13120'>\n\t\t\t\tAna Mazzei, The measure of her hips, 2015;\nmixed mediaa.\nCourtesy the artist and Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A spectre is haunting the world \u2013 the spectre of uncertainty. 2016 may enter history not just because of the Brexit, but also as the year the US elected a president who intends to build a wall with its Mexican border and Brazil impeached an elected president in a highly controversial process. Or not. Amid this turmoil, it is fitting that the curatorship of the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bienal.org.br\/?l=16\" target=\"_blank\">Sao Paulo Biennial<\/a> \u2013 due to open in September \u2013 has chosen to embrace that which is unknown, in motion and urgent as it\u2019s guiding axes. Titled Live Uncertainty, the event is being curated by Jochen Volz with the assistance of co-curators Gabi Ngcobo, J\u00falia Rebou\u00e7as, Lars Bang Larsen and Sof\u00eda Olascoaga. After a comprehensive process of field trips and research, they arrived at the final list of participants, composed by eighty-one artists and collectives from several geographies. There is a remarkable feminine presence in the list \u2013 over half of the artists included \u2013 which, even today, is an unusual fact. Rebou\u00e7as explains that this choice was part of \u2018a natural process, considering the values that we stand for. We all knew that it\u2019s easier to think of male artists \u2013 they are the majority in galleries, exhibitions and even collections \u2013 so we very naturally asked ourselves, \u201cwhere are the women? Which of them are dealing with these subjects?\u201d. It was not about ticking boxes or making concessions, but something that happened rather organically\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the featured artists are Ana Mazzei and Luiz Roque, both of whom are young Sao Paulo based practitioners who will be taking part in the city\u2019s biennial for the first time. Roque \u2013 who will show a film set in a dystopian future, where the official state controls our bodies \u2013 speaks of the impact that participating in such event has in the career of an emerging artist, \u2018for sure, the recognition (that it brings) is very important, but for me I think that the most powerful thing on a biennial is the possibility to communicate with a larger audience, specially with the youngsters. I&#8217;d love to be in the head of a child and maybe in the future something in my work could make a difference to them, somehow\u2019. Mazzei is more pragmatic, \u2018I think that participating in an exhibition like this impacts mainly the physical dimension of the work \u2013 at least in my case\u2019. She will be showing a sculptural work titled Spectacle, whose starting point is \u2018the idea of what is offered to look at\u2019. The artist explains further, \u2018the word &#8220;spectacle&#8221; is a generic term that applies to the visible part of the representation and other activities which involve public participation, even if such participation is only bound to look. The main material used is wood of various kinds, and it has a constructive process closely linked to studio work, so while it is done, it can undergo changes\u2019. As of roughly seventy-five percent of the art that will be on show, these two works are new commissions. Rebou\u00e7as explains that, having the exhibition\u2019s motto in mind, the eighty-one artists were selected for their understanding of \u2018uncertainty as our condition. Rather than illustrating an idea, we were interested in artists who accomplish this idea. Artists who confront uncertainty, but also harbour it\u2019. Mazzei tell us how she perceives the link between her practice and the ideas at the heart of the biennial, \u2018I see uncertainty as something or a situation where you cannot predict exactly the result of an action or the effect of a condition. You can also refer to the degree of uncertainty of physical measurements or just the unknown. What I try to do as an artist is often marked by a certain incompleteness, which doesn&#8217;t need to be completed\u2026 However, I believe that the relations of conceptual approach are given from the understanding of my work process, which is basically a disorder\u2019. Here is Roque who gives a more pragmatic input, \u2018as I&#8217;m working with the transgender community, I could say that uncertainty is something inner to the project. There is a part of the society which, still today, sees a trans-woman, for example, with visual and sexual doubts\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spectre is haunting the world \u2013 the spectre of uncertainty. 2016 may enter history not just because of the Brexit, but also as the year the US elected a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[2070,2069,2068],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-ana-mazzei","tag-luiz-roque","tag-sp-biennial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}