From the New Zealand Pavilion, Post hoc broadcasted a mournful archive numbering in the millions across the city, via seven, six-metre tall cell-phone tree towers installed in public sites around Venice. The source of the automated voice was an echo-free chamber installed in the Palazzina Canonica, the former headquarters of exhibition partner Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR).
NTRO Output Type
- Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival
NTRO Output Category
- Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival : Exhibition/event
Place
Venice, ItalyVenue
Venice BiennaleNTRO Publisher
Venice Biennale and Creative New ZealandStart Date
2019-05-11End Date
2019-11-24Medium
Printer, paper, laptop computer, powder-coated mild steel, Tapered anechoic chamber, powered monitor speaker, microphone, modem, Raspberry Pi, hard drive, three fans, electrical cabling, Seven cell tower pine trees, each comprising: galvanised steel, mild steel, aluminium, plastic, two Raspberry Pi, two hard drives, speakers, acoustic insulation, range booster antenna, electrical components, electrical cabling.Research Statement
Post hoc reflects on our constant demand for growth and progress, highlighting the unrelenting new losses and extinctions occurring as our present moment becomes the past. For some, this data is all that remains.
The exhibition was held in Palazzina Canonica, the former headquarters of exhibition partner Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) and Università Iuav di Venezia, The Architecture School; Ospedale Civile di Venezia, The Hospital; Sant'Elena, Parco Rimembranze; and the North Arsenale, Internal Garden. This produced a very specific field of experience — producing innovative new knowledge in contemporary art.
The work has been cited in several journals and many texts. For example https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Nature-in-the-Anthropocene-Planetary-Aesthetics/Ballard/p/book/9780367710941
Radio media coverage included: ABC News, Unravelled Podcast, Monocle, Al Jazeera, ZDF German TV Network, Contemporary HUM.
Print Media coverage included: Der Tagesspiegel, Mousse Magazine, The Art Newspaper, BR Radio (German Radio Station), Le Figaro, Frieze Magazine.
The work has been exhibited multiple times at public institutions.Size or Duration of Work
Dimensions Variable, exhibited for 6 monthsAffiliation
Dane Mitchell, University of Melbourne
