TIERRA SIN MALES
"Tierra Sin Males," is a digitally generated video piece that spins, fractures, spirals, spins back faster, hits, rolls, hesitates, pivots out of balance at the fulcrum, regroups, continues ... both with and against any predictable laws of physics or nature. The image distorts, contorts, looks primeval and of the future. The context of the room and its shadows roll and spin, against gravity. Its reverberating sound track in some ways leads it.
The central image is the reflection of a highway sign near the Mexico/US border warning drivers not to hit families as they flee across the road. The title is taken from comments by Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina's Nobel Laureate, concerning utopia and revolving tension.
In the Cloister of San Salvador, the piece will be projected across the piazza (about 35 ft. wide), over the well, onto the Refrectory wall, with its grill-covered windows, augmenting the tension of being confined/released, what one runs from/to.
“Tierra Sin Males” is projected across the Cloister beginning at dusk on June 3, continuing in the evenings through June 16. It plays during the day on monitors throughout the Cloister.
Ms. Kleinberg's work has been seen in Venice in the 2001 Biennale; and in 2005, projected in Campo S. Stefano in collaboration with the Istituto Veneto. Her piece “Sposalizo del Mar,” floated between San Marco and San Giorgio in “Arte Laguna,” part of the Venice Biennale 1995.
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DIRECTIONS TO TELECOM ITALIA FUTURE CENTRE
Identified by a red banner above the entrance doorway, the Future Centre is located in Campo San Salvador, very close to the Rialto, on the St. Mark's side. The nearest vaporetto stop is Rialto. From the bridge or the vaporetto stop walk away from the Grand Canal until you reach Via Due Aprile or Campo San Bartolomeo. Turn right and the centre is ahead of you. The church of San Salvador is next to it. The address is San Marco 4826. Tel. 041.5213200.
SUSAN KLEINBERG
Over the past five years, Ms. Kleinberg developed three high-definition digital projection pieces, BLOOD ROLL, D-ROLL, and P-SPIN, with related prints, drawings and paintings. BLOOD ROLL was shown first in November 2004 in Seoul, Korea, in an international show at the Total Museum. In 2005, she showed BLOOD ROLL during the opening of the Venice Biennale in collaboration with the Istituto Veneto. Ms. Kleinberg installed P-SPIN at the Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia in the fall of 2007, for Pro Arte in an exhibition organized by Olessya Turkina, curator from the Russian State Museum. In 2003, Ms. Kleinberg mounted What Would Make for a Better World, a video installation for “Future Democracy” at the Istanbul Biennial. In 2001, she created Fear Not for the Venice Biennale, curated by Harald Szeemann. It was shown in New York at P.S. 1/MOMA (2001-2002), was chosen as a Special Project for the Chicago International Art Fair (2002), was exhibited at the Neuhoff Gallery in New York (2002). Ms. Kleinberg showed related paintings and drawings at Venice Design Gallery, Venice, Italy (2001) and a preview installation at the Stark Gallery in New York (2001). In 2002 the piece was shown along with related prints at the Tasende Gallery in Los Angeles and the Tasende Gallery in La Jolla, CA. Sposalizio del Mar, whose reference was to the most important ceremony of the Venetian Republic, the marriage of the Doge to the sea, floated in the Grand Canal between San Marco and San Giorgio, part of "Artelaguna," during the 1995 Venice Biennale. The beginnings of all of this work were shown at the Castelli Gallery in New York. http://www.susankleinberg.com
TELECOM ITALIA GROUP
The Telecom Italia Group operates in all sectors of the advanced communications chain, with highly developed business in fixed-mobile communications and the Internet with the brands Telecom Italia, TIM, Alice and Virgilio; multimedia, television and news with La7, MTV Italia, APCOM; in the office & system solutions with Olivetti; in research and development with Telecom Italia Lab. Telecom Italia is the domestic market leader in fixed and mobile communications. http://www.telecomitalia.com
SPONSORSHIP
Telecom Italia, ENDAR, Ziegler Foundation
Istituto Italiana di Cultura, Los Angeles; Tom Polson, 3D Paint; Les Guthman; Jacques Boulanger, Creative Audio Post.
Ristorante a Beccafico, Osteria La Frasca, Venice.
SUSAN KLEINBERG INSTALLATION AT TELECOM ITALIA FUTURE CENTRE, THE CLOISTER OF SAN SALVADOR, FOR THE VENICE BIENNALE, JUNE 3-13, OPENING JUNE 3, 8:30-MIDNIGHT.
Susan Kleinberg presented her latest digital projection, “Tierra Sin Males,” during the opening of the 2009 Venice Biennale at the Telecom Italia Future Centre, in the exquisite 16th Century Cloister of San Salvador designed by Sansovino.
“Tierra Sin Males” Appearing at Dusk
Image spinning
Viewed on monitors during the day
