la Passante Inconnue

little sister blog of http://learningfromvenice.tumblr.com/ contributing to the Learning From Venice Project. WWW.LEARINGFROMVENICE.COM

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Rainer Ganahl at Barbara Weiss, Berlin, November 2016 - January 2017

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museo del vetro

Quite a nice museum, with a beautiful courtyard / garden

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the sun shining through clouds in venice

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Torcello Escape

Even more laid back than Murano and Burano, Torcello is the place to go if you need some peace of mind. Beautiful vegetation and generally very low density, but still, if you want to, you may discover many stories from a city (once holding the largest population of the Republic of Venice) that has disappeared.

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the sun shining through clouds in venice

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museo del vetro

Quite a nice museum, with a beautiful courtyard / garden

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A Stroll in Murano - overall this place is far more laid back than venice and yet very close to venice downtown. 

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Venetians are still waiting for the tesla boat.

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congestion in venice. limousine boats waiting for their clientele. size matters: while gondolas are thin and allow crossing of two boats in all directions, large sized motor-boats are a hindrance for the smooth flow of traffic.

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Erwin Blumenfeld,

Fantaisies Parisiennes 1923

Collage & Colored Pencil on Paper 13 1/2 x 9 1/2”

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I like to walk around outside because life in a box gets dull.

Essay by Salvatore Folisi -- I LIKE TO WALK AROUND outside because life in a box gets dull. I walk wherever I can, on streets and sidewalks through neighborhoods right on down through town, and on the beach or in the woods where it is quieter and more beautiful. It’s good to get outside, to smell the fresh air, to feel the sun or the night sky, listen to the birds or the crickets, to see and sense the surrounding world, and sometimes even say “hello” to other people. (...)  http://carbusters.org/2013/05/08/walking-the-car-or-driving-your-body/

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Haegue Yang’s “Accommodating the Epic Dispersion — On Non-Cathartic Volume of Dispersion.” #artbasel #unlimited #artswoon #teamfitz (at Unlimited | Art Basel)

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Images from Rainer Ganahl's Credit Crunch Meal as part of Performa 11’s Fluxus Weekend. This “occupied” installation was accompanied by a meal of lentils. Ganahl explains, “Lentils are eaten in Italy at the end of the year in the hope that money will come in the new year.”

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Il gioco del vento e della luna, libretto: pilar garcia, musica di luca mosca - prima rappresentazione assoluta.

Conservatorio "Benedetto Marcello", Venezia

http://www.conseve.net/

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Venice may be the only city still alive

"In fact, if you compare Venice to other cities -- torn apart first by carriages, then trains, then cars -- reducing people to "markets" and "workforces", moving from the community-feeling of a city to a more anonymous "society"-style interaction -- then, I believe, Venice may be the only city still alive. The rest are only neighborhoods straining to stay alive in the midst of economic development that is anti-city, and anti-people."

Greg Bryant, Venice Notes

http://venicenotes.blogspot.it/2007/05/venice-didnt-die.html

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THNO4: The Brasilian Love Affaire with "Case-Study"-Houses continues

Studio MK27's minimalist but luxurious case-study-type of houses are in many ways as intriguingly representative for a positive modernist worldview as we know it from the 50thies (or late 20thies and early 30thies) and they have put a lot of attention to detail to come across as seriously believing in that nowadays somehow contaminated dream. Beautiful imagery of sumptuous villas entrenched in nature set the stage for several short movies with diverse narratives, a bit retro, a bit ironic and always highly aesthetic. Loved the one with the cat! If the american dream still exsists it must be in Brazil. With legal frameworks and real-estate developers encouraging car-dependency it has also become the leading nation of traffic jams. That might just be the other side of the coin of glitzy commercial success. Anyway, well done!