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Venice Biennial 2007

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Seminars/Lectures

 

Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense

Venice Biennial, 2007 curated by Robert Storr

 

 

 


Seminar/Lecture, Allan Sekula, History of Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia 11/22/1995

2 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

 


Seminar/Lecture, Linda Nochlin, Glory and Misery of Pornography, colloquium "fémininmasculin", Les Revues Parlées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2/2/96

4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

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please, note: At the Venice Biennial by Robert Storr, 2007 - the image of the public of this set on display was mistakenly different from the one shown here.

This depicted photograph of the public here was shown at its first presentaton by Generali Foundation which owns editon 1/4, and is in the Dikeou Collection (their edtion is 4/4). Edition 3/4 was also shown at my Max Proetch exhibitoin in 1999.

 

 


Seminar/Lecture, Edward Said, Pour une réinterprétation des formes culturelles; L’Islam, l’Occident et l’orientalism, Paris, Collège de France, 11/28/1996

3 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

 


Seminar/Lecture, Zeinab Eyega, Female Circumcision , Female Genital Mutilation, A Health & Human Rights Issue for Girls and Women, Columbia University, New York 2/25/1997

4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.

 

 


Seminar/Lecture, Eric Hobsbawm, Carl Schorske, David Montgomery, Ira Katznelson, Moderator: André Schiffrin, The Cold War and the University, The New School for Social Research, New York, 11/13/1997

4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

one more photo to be posted

 

Seminar/Lecture, Stuart Hall, Ethnicity, Nation and Race at the Millennium, The Institute of Education, University of London, London, 7/1/1999
3 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.

 


Seminar/Lecture, Pierre Bourdieu, Recherches récentes, Collège de France, Paris, 1/12/2000

4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

 

 


Seminar/Lecture, Fredric Jameson, Modernity, Modernism and Late Modernism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 4/26/01

2 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.

 


Seminar/Lecture, Rosalind Krauss, Bruce Nauman, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 5/23/02
4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.

 


Seminar/Lecture, Gerda Lederer, Generations Today and the Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews and of Homosexuals, New School University, New York, 12/10/03

3 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.


Seminar/Lecture, Michael Fried, Wall and Wittgenstein: Photography and the Everyday, Discussants: Diarmuid Costello, Gregg Horowitz, Columbia University, New York 11/10/05
4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

 


Seminar/Lecture, Allan Antliff, Open Road – Anarchism in Vancouver, Bluestockings Books, New York 11/10/04

4 photographs 20 x 24 inches, Edition 2/4

 

Seminar/Lecture, Eric Hobsbawm, Carl Schorske, David Montgomery, Ira Katznelson, Moderator: André Schiffrin, The Cold War and the University, The New School for Social Research, New York, 11/13/1997
4 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm

Seminar/Lecture, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Colonialism and the Rise of Modern African Literature, New York University, New York, 11/17/1998
3 photographs, each 20 x 24 inches; 51 cm x 61 cm.


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Searching “The Politics of Education” on Google.com
, 2007
Wall painting. – acryl on wall

 

 

Installation view, Italian Pavillion

 

Homeland Security:

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homeland security 1 -2003

homeland security 2, 2003 -

homeland security 3, 2003 -

homeland security 4, 2003 -

homeland security 5, 2003 -

 

video still - homeland security

work behind is: embroidery made by Pashtuns near the Afghan border in Pakistan according my design taken from network news during the time of the bombing of Afghanistan.. see more works:

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short description:

Rainer Ganahl
Homeland Security, I - V, 2003 dvd;

each video segment is less then 2 minutes long.


This video series represents a continuation of my language based video works entitled "Basic Feelings" and "Basic Conflicts" . The principle is always the same: a given sentence is uttered by me in all 11 of the languages I have been learning so far. In a situation comparable with that of a language lab, I repeat the same sentence in all these different languages touching on humor, absurdity and paranoia. With this new set of "homeland security" clips, filmed as police mug shots, I am making references to the newly created department of Homeland Security, that is most likely to bring us some kind of a quasi-totalitarian Big Brother police apparatus. Our homes will be subject to digital data mining and endless profiling - in a phrase: "homeless security," since it is becoming harder to feel our homes are actually home.
My 'homeland security" sequences start with Arabic, a language I have been learning only since 2001 and then ends with the more familiar ones. The sentences are simple and express a degree of paranoia: "I am not a terrorist" (1), "I am not a religious fanatic" (2), "I don't give money to terrorist networks" (3), "I don't know how to build bombs" (4) and "I am not downloading dangerous information from the Internet".
Rainer Ganahl

 

Each segment is individual but can also be shown together.

 

index

Venice Biennial 2007

work description

Seminars/Lectures