txt: Venice Biennale: Navigating the “Grande Confusione” – nytimes.com
You immediately know you’re in trouble when a very polite attendant at the Giardini, the public gardens that serve as one of the event’s main sites, tells you “go talk-a to the box, please,” and the box turns out to be a tiny office called the Organizing Secretariat. Here, petitioners stand with their arms crossed in long lines, waiting to plead, in seventeen different languages, to people behind glass, who are very hard to hear and who mostly shrug their shoulders and smile and say no.
video: Liam Gillick – La Biennale di Venezia 2009
