2009: Venice

Heritage Hacking - The Case of the Biennale

June 21-28

UB Arts Management students outside the Basilica di San Marco on the 2009 Summer School in Venice.

UB Arts Management students outside the Basilica di San Marco on the 2009 Summer School in Venice

Heritage is a complex word, with numerous meanings and as such is easily fossilized. The trick is to get inside the skin of heritage, to infiltrate it, to decode it and recycle its energy into new areas. This is how we bring life to it and how we become actors instead of spectators. Now the Biennale as a phenomenon is a way for nations to join the big game of art, this game has been going on for ages. The Biennale we are visiting is the oldest, greatest of them all; the Biennale of Art in Venice; a place where trade, art and politics have cohabited for very long time. So let´s infiltrate the Biennale and let it infect our minds and bodies.

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