Honey in the coffee

  New entry amongst the national pavilions at the coming Venice Biennale is the Pavilion of the Republic of Angola. Luanda, Encyclopedic City presents works of young artist Edson Chagas . Curated by  Paula Nascimento and Stefano Rabolli Pansera (Beyond Entropy Ltd) As the press release states: The Encyclopedic Palace has been given an impossible task: no building can contain a universal multiplicity of spaces, possibilities, and objects. When a building tends towards the encyclopedic, it becomes a city. The city includes multiple conditions in the coherence of form— even though this is an urban, conflict-ridden form. Edson Chagas focuses on the complexity of Angola’s capital, Luanda, which derives from the presence of unpredictable spaces and the coexistence of irreconcilable programs: city and country, infrastructure and habitations, garbage tips and public spaces. Luanda is an encyclopedic city. How can the knowledge of a city be organized through the taxon...

EDGE OF ARABIA Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting) 30 May–24 September 2013 Collateral Event of the  55th Venice Biennale Magazzini del Sale No. 262 Dorsoduro Fondamenta delle Zattere Venice (ACTV stop: Line 1, Salute) Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm Admission free www.edgeofarabia.com Rhizome :  A plant stem that grows horizontally under or along the ground and often sends out roots and shoots. New plants develop from the shoots. Ginger, iris, and violets have rhizomes. Also called   rootstock ( Greek   rhiz ma ,   mass of roots , from   rhizoun ,   to cause to take root , from   rhiza ,   root ; see   wr d-   in Indo-European roots). Curated by London-based curator Sara Raza and Saudi-based poet, artist and curator Ashraf Fayadh,  Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting)  refers to the newcoming artists in the Saudi Arabia art scene who are challenging the force of gravity with their projects. Sara Raza explains:...