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2007 Fall

Art Radio in Venice: Recap

Art Radio WPS1.org broadcast boat

Antoine Guerrero interviews Malick Sidibé at the Biennale

Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

We teased you in our last issue with a drawing of the design for our broadcast boat in advance of the 52nd Annual International Art Exhibition also known as the 2007 Venice Biennial. Above is a photo of the finished vessel. Over the course of a week in June, during the opening of the Biennial, P.S.1 set up a radio station, catered lounge, and party headquarters on the Venetian waterfront just outside the Giardini. The boat was lavishly decorated as a lounge by the Italian fashion house Malo. Our radio crew built a com­pletely operational recording and broadcast­ing station onboard. Aside from our Internet streamcasts we also broadcast on local FM for 24 hours a day for seven days. Selected segments went national! P.S.1 staff mem­bers hosted programs featuring a range of art world characters and topics drawn from the participants and visitors at the Biennial. We also benefited from a program partnership with the Perna Foundation (principle spon­sors of the effort and producers of a wonder­ful series on art in the Mediterranean basin). The Palazzo delle Arti Napoli also supported the project and provided additional programs on the Balkans, Sicilian art, Italian new media and more. All of this is available on demand on the Venice Biennale 2007 page on WPS1.org. Programs include Egyptian electronic music, an art quiz show, Israeli sound art, a virtual Indonesian Pavilion, and Italian hip hop plus interviews with participants in the Alba­nian, Georgian, Tahitian, Turkish, and Venezu­elan pavilions, as well as conversations with Robert Storr, Carolee Schneemann, Paolo Canevari, Sophie Calle, Daniel Buren, Andrea Bellini, Kara Walker, Achille Bonita Oliva, Vasif Kortun, and many more.