MALDIVES PAVILION : THE BOOK
The book offers a range of geo-political positions and research-curatorial methodologies on climate change and their approaches to ecological romanticism. It aims to engage a readership further-reaching than the project’s immediate public.
‘Portable Nation: Disappearance as Work in Progress – Approaches to Ecological Romanticism’ expands on several of the themes which emerged conceptually and artistically in the Maldives Pavilion exhibition and six-month-long public programme, and elaborates them in a philosophical, historical, scientific and poetic register within the specific materiality of a book, with its capacity to extend the time, space and context of the ideas beyond the Venice Biennale.
The publication is structured in three main sections: the artists and their projects presented in the Maldives Pavilion, the parallel projects over the six-month period, and the critical text section which includes interviews and thematic analysis. Featuring essays on the geopolitics of climate change and the idea of urgency, the book offers a comprehensive snapshot of the aesthetic, political and poetic dimensions of the situation in the island nation intertwined with a global vision of the climate emergency around the world.
Editors: Dorian Batycka, Camilla Boemio, Alfredo Cramerotti and Aida Eltoire for the 55th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia – Maldives Pavilion
Publisher: Maretti Editore (www.marettieditore.com)
Year: 2014
Pages: 176
Language: English
