WORK, BODY, LEISURE finissage
On November 24, a public program will mark the end of the exhibition in the Dutch pavilion in Venice and celebrate its multiple afterlives. The finissage includes a screening and discussion on Logistical Nightmares, a project by the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London, and performances by Het Nieuwe Instituut’s 2018 Fellows on the theme of BURN-OUT. The day will conclude with an international assembly, where curators and commissioners of national pavilions will explore forms of collaboration and knowledge exchange within and beyond the biennale.
Logistical Nightmares
A screening and panel discussion by the students of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths.
Logistical Nightmares was a year-long pedagogical programme, part of the Centre of Research Architecture Masters at Goldsmiths, London. The programme explored logistics as a model for organising social life and politics at a global scale. On November 24, they will screen their experimental documentary, FUTURELAND, which emerged from the fieldwork they conducted in the Port of Rotterdam in 2018 and lead a panel discussion in response to their film.
With Faiza Ahmad Khan, Ramon Amaro, Riccardo Badano, Enrico Murtula, Susan Schuppli, Rebecca Huxley, Anna Sophie Hvid, Ariadna Serrahima, Guillaume De Vore and Liza Walling.
BURN-OUT
Performances by the Het Nieuwe Instituut 2018 Research Fellows on the theme of burn-out.
This year, Het Nieuwe Instituut addresses the theme of burn-out. Building upon the long-term research on changing labour conditions and ethos addressed through Automated Landscapes and WORK, BODY, LEISURE. BURN-OUT, seeks to address, on the one hand the growing number of bodies that under unrelenting pressure and overwhelming demands are exhausted, and on the other hand to explore how this exhaustion is a symptom of the presence of exploitative structures within society, throughout institutional, political and biological ecologies. The 2018 Call for Fellows was organised around the theme and on November 24 fellows Elisa Guiliano, Natalie Dixon and Malique Mohamud, will present the beginnings of their research.
Assembly
A conversation by the curators and commissioners of national pavilions, on the Biennale as a platform for transnational collaboration and exchange.
Het Nieuwe Instituut will host an informal assembly on November 24 in the Dutch Pavilion, with the curators and commissioners of the national pavillions for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The conversation will discuss how the Biennale functions and can function further, as a platform for transnational collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Biennale Architettura 2018
Dutch Pavilion
Giardini, Venice
Programme
11:00 – 13:00 A Hat and a Bicycle. Welfare Capitalism and the Female Working Body. Choreography by Elisa Giuliano, with Gabriele Valerio
A Hat and a Bicycle is a performative work based on a research about Borsalino, Italy’s oldest and most famous hat maker. The company, established in Alessandria in 1857, was recognized for hiring a largely female workforce, locally known as borsaline. The aim is to use the case of the Borsaline as an experiment in expanding our understanding (and definition) of burn-out, investigating it not as an individual issue but as collective labour relationships — by taking into account gender, space, place, gesture, and the conditions (social and economic) of a minority group. The performance - divided into three acts, Maternity, Factory Work and Free Time - will present a first index of gestures, bodily movement and situations gathered from archival research and interviews.
13:00 – 14:00 Logistical Nightmares by the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London. Screening and panel discussion
With Faiza Ahmad Khan, Ramon Amaro, Riccardo Badano, Enrico Murtula, Susan Schuppli, Rebecca Huxley, Marina Otero Verzier, Anna Sophie Hvid, Ariadna Serrahima, Guillaume De Vore and Liza Walling.
Logistical Nightmares was a year-long pedagogical programme, part of the Centre of Research Architecture Masters at Goldsmiths, London. The programme explored logistics as a model for organising social life and politics at a global scale. There will be a film screening of their experimental documentary, FUTURELAND, which emerged from the fieldwork they conducted in the Port of Rotterdam in 2018 and followed by a panel discussion in response to their film.
14:00 – 14:45 Lecture Performance by Malique Mohamud, based on his fellowship research into the Bodega (aka the Avondwinkel) as a Site for Archival Practices
15:00 – 15:45 Storytelling and conversation by Natalie Dixon, with Ramon Amaro, based on her fellowship research on How to read a story about Burn-Out
An intimate reading of a family story of burn-out, women’s work and the body. Followed by a conversation with Ramon Amaro, based on her Fellowship research into How to Read a Story about Burn-out. Natalie has been using a family photo archive as a starting point for awakening critical thought, regarding burn-out and the female working class-body. Addressing women’s omission from the general story about burn-out, and exploring the routine experiences of exhaustion amongst women, which have been forgotten or relegated in our collective consciousness.
16:00 – 17:00 Conversation with curatorial teams of the 16th about transnational collaborations
Het Nieuwe Instituut will host an informal assembly in the Dutch Pavilion, with the curators and commissioners of the national pavillions for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The conversation will discuss how the Biennale functions and can function further, as a platform for transnational collaboration and knowledge exchange.
