ASU ART MUSEUM and ECHO present A Fluid Resilience, at 54th VENICE BIENNALE

Jananne Al-Ani, Shadow Sites II (detail), 2011. Courtesy the Artist and Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2011. Photograph Adrian Warren.

The ASU ART MUSEUM and ECHO present A Fluid Resilience, a panel at the VENICE BIENNALE through the Pavilion of Iraq. Panelists include artist Jananne Al-Ani, engineer Azzam Alwash, ASU Art Museum Director Gordon Knox, ASU Museum Studies Director Richard Toon, and Sander van der Leeuw, director of the ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the dean of the ASU School of Sustainability.

Anila Rubiku in ASU Art Museum Americas Gallery

We are also pleased to let you know that Anila Rubiku, who was our third artist involved in our Social Studies initiative of social practice residency/exhibitions (2008), will be included in the group exhibition Geopathiesat the Albanian Pavilion during the Biennale. The exhibition, curated by Riccardo Caldura, includes artists Anila Rubiku, Orion Shima, Gentian Shkurti, Eltjon Valle and Driant Zeneli.

image credit: Bill Viola: Buried Secrets, The Greeting, 1995, video sound installation, production still, photo: Kira Perov. Image courtesy of Bill Viola Studio.

The ASU Art Museum has a history with the Venice Biennale, representing the US at the 1995 Biennale with the five room video/sound installation Buried Secrets by artist Bill Viola.