Arts Management Program :: University at Buffalo

2009 Summer School at the Venice Biennale,

21 - 28 June 2009

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HERITAGE HACKING- THE CASE OF THE BIENNALE

Heritage is a complex word, with numerous meanings and as such is easily fossilized. The trick is to get inside the skin of heritage, to infiltrate it, to decode it and recycle its energy into new areas. This is how we bring life to it and how we become actors instead of spectators. Now the Biennale as a phenomenon is a way for nations to join the big game of art, this game has been going on for ages. The Biennale we are visiting is the oldest, greatest of them all; the Biennale of Art in Venice; a place where trade, art and politics have cohabited for very long time. So let´s infiltrate the Biennale and let it infect our minds and bodies.

Friday, May 15

Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux Senior Associate Dean Charles Stinger presenting to the class Professor Bengt Krisstenson Uggla

First official Summer School class at the Baldy Center with Professors and co-Founders of Nurope (The Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe), Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Bengt Krisstenson Uggla.
Presentation on Venetian history and art with Senior Associate Dean Charles Stinger.

Sunday, June 21

First group meeting at Hotel Sant'Elena Director of the 53 Venice Biennale, Daniel Birnbaum Courtyard at Hotel Sant'Elena

Afternoon Activities

Welcome meeting with Professors Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Bengt Krisstenson Uggla, Ruth Bereson, Rebecca French and Luca Zan.
Professor Luca Zan, University of Bologna, Italy, Contextualising the Arsenale

Evening Activities

Daniel Birnbaum, Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009, joined the group at dinner for a discussion, Making Worlds; on heritage hacking for contemporary visions.
Dance performance of Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

Monday, June 22

Sculpture by Att Poomtangon outside the Arsenale Dr. Ruth Bereson and Professor Rebecca French

Morning Activities

Tour of the Arsenale exhibition Making Worlds with Biennale Director Daniel Birnbaum.

Afternoon Activities

Students continued to explore the Arsenale exhibition on their own.

Evening Activities

Dinner at Hotel Sant’Elena, followed by a presentation by Professor Antonio Strati, University of Trento, Aesthetics and Arts; not to be confused or ?

Tuesday, June 23

Biennale archives Students at an installation by Tomas Saraceno Arts Management students outside the American Pavilion, art by Bruce Nauman

Morning Activities

Visit to the Biennale Giardini National Pavilions
Tour of the Biennale’s Historical Archives of Contemporary Art in the new library located in the main Biennale Pavilion.

Afternoon Activities

Professor Andrea Saba, University of Rome, Industry of Heritage, building the future out of the past.

Evening Activities

Group dinner at al Diporto trattoria

Wednesday, June 24

Students in front of the main Biennale Pavilion Outside of the Nordic Pavilion

Morning Activities

Group discussion at Hotel Sant’Elena about Arsenale and Giardini exhibitions, art works, and various arts management approaches observed at the Biennale.
Visit to the Biennale Giardini for the rest of the morning and afternoon.

Evening Activities

Group dinner at al Diporto trattoria

Thursday, June 25

Boy with Frog by Charles Ray outside the Punta della Dogana Student Yi-Hsuan Kuo inside the Fenice opera house La Fenice Opera House

Morning Activities

Students had the option to return to the Biennale Arsenale or explore collateral events taking place throughout the city. Many visited the exhibition, Mapping the Studio at the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi.

Afternoon Activities

Tour of La Fenice opera house with Professor Maria Ida Biggi, University Ca’Foscari Venice, Italy.

Evening Activities

Picnic dinner before attending the world premiere Michael Clark Company Production Degree Zero at the Teatro alle Tese, part of the Dance Biennale

Friday, June 26

Group Dinner at Trattoria alle Vignole Horses of San Marco Burano

Morning Activities

Professor Rebecca French, University at Buffalo, Laws of Lace
Nurope member and artist Hanna Varis presents her current exhibition Traveler in Time.
Dr. Nina Kivinen, Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland, The Venice Biennale as a Department Store?

Afternoon Activities