the Nordic pavilion at the Venice Biennale 26/8 - 21/11 2010.

22 Sept 2010

The grid goes archeological

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Venice, sinking into its own waters and shedding its traditional urban functions, can be construed as a "dying" city. Through "Venice of the North", Svensk Standard performs an archaeology - the recovery and examination of remaining traces and artifacts - to explore possibilities for the animation of both a city and a pavilion, through the active gestures of mapping, exhibition, collection, curation and architectural intervention.

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