Book Launch at the Venice Biennial
Posted on by Ursula Biemann
Maldives Pavilion, May 31 at 2 pm
Presentation with Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, and Emily E. Scott.
Location: Gervasuti Foundation, Via Garibaldi, Fondamente Sant’Anna, Castello 995, between Arsenale and Gardini. (former Iraqi Pavilion)
Provisões, publication by World of Matter edited by Mabe Bethônico
The book Provisões (Portuguese/English) compiles texts and visual materials produced by World of Matter members and several Brazilian guest speakers for its inaugural public symposium in April 2012. Held in Belo Horizonte within the Brazilian mining state of Minas Gerais, a location largely characterized by the massive extraction and export of mineral and agricultural resources, and imbued with a long colonial history of violent human and species displacements, the conference Provisões presented a rich opportunity for World of Matter to engage with audiences about ‘resource ecologies’, both near and afar. Rather than a polished or conclusive document, Provisões functions as a workbook, conveying the project’s evolution toward the launch of its comprehensive, multi-media web platform, as well as its first mise-en-scène in the exhibition space at HMKV Dortmund, in Germany, both later this year.
Contributors: Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, Elaine Gan, Rogério Haesbaert, Renata Marquez, Uwe H. Martin & Frauke Huber, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, José Augusto Pádua, Emily Eliza Scott, Paulo Tavares, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Kaká Werá.
PROVISÕES – uma conferência visual [World of Matter]
Portuguese/English, 298 pages, black and white, illustrated
ISBN – 978-85-61659-24-0
