A movie made during the journey, conceived from a fictional disaster scenario about a “drifting world”. It will gather together a collection of interventions made before the video camera (placed in an isolated cabin) or sent by mobile phone, text message as well as e-mail.
People involved in the biennials (artists, curators, collectors, gallery representatives, intellectuals and visitors) as well as those who cannot attend these events for whatever reason, will be asked to answer or comment on some of the questions evoked in this disaster scenario about a world in which the dominant system will generate only hate, violence, inequality between human beings. A world in which the values of this dominant system would solely be based on the pursuit of financial interests, a world where even art’s commitment to taking a critical stance on reality would become completely constrained by these conditions.
Developed along the FLOATING TERRITORIES itinerary, On the Boat seeks to reveal the hidden but nevertheless powerful voice of those who yearn for a brand new world in our time – a sort of bottle thrown into the sea.
Interviews by Mario Cristiani - Robert Kluijver - Yushi Uehara - Tina&Yang Jiechang - Maurizio Bortolotti - Map Office (Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix Francois Quintin Francine Méoule Alexandre Perigot Evgeny Svyatsky Tatiana Arzamasova Lev Evzovich Yan Lei Gavin Jantjes Sam Samore / Lectrice actrice turque Wong Hoy Cheong Omer Ali Kazma Manray Hsu Yorgos Sapountzis Mariek Van Hal Maria Papadimi trion Stefanos Tsivopoulos Farida El Gazzor/ Yannis Hadjiaslanis Bart de Baere Brigitte de Malau Paolo Scibelli Huang Yong Ping & Shen Yuan Adriana Garcia Galan Eloisa Haudenschild Allora & Calzadilla Adel Abdessemed Suely Rolnik Hou Hanru (skype) Okwui Enwezor Cao Fei (on Second Life)
Will be released shortly.
Jouanno is a Paris-born, San-Francisco-based art historian and independent art curator. In the 1990s, at the Paris VII University, she taught a new modern and contemporary art approach through the history of mutating geopolitical contexts and the trans-cultural questions related to those changes. Jouanno now regularly gives conferences throughout the world, and this year worked as a guest teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and UC-Berkeley. Highlights as a curator include directing ‘Sous la Terre, il y a le Ciel’ (2000-2002), at the Kunsthalle of Bern, Switzerland and founding Chechnya’s Emergency Biennial, an international traveling exhibition, deployed through suitcases, encompassing more than a hundred artists.