A Comparative Dialogue Act, a project by the Luxembourgish artist Andrea Mancini and the multidisciplinary collective Every Island has been conceived as an infrastructure for the transmission of sound – a shared production space challenging the entrenched notion of individual artistic authorship. Throughout the duration of the Biennale, the pavilion is hosting four guest artists who will produce and present new sound performances, thereby expanding the definition of a collective artwork. In this context, the notion of openness is not bound to the absence of limits, but rather to the appropriation of ‘the other’ and its contribution to open-ended scenarios. Sound and space are tuned: the spatial elements – floor and walls – are turned into sound devices, progressively shaping an immersive experience. Technology is used to develop this localized experiment through which artists and audience consider the conditions under which knowledge is transmitted and shared. The pavilion is at once the space where the soundscape is produced, and where it is played – the studio and the stage – in a gesture of radical transparency.

An unprecedented collaboration between four emerging artists from diverse backgrounds, the programme brings together Spanish musician and performer Bella Báguena, French transdisciplinary artist Célin Jiang, Ankara-born performance artist Selin Davasse and Swedish artist Stina Fors to present four intersecting approaches to the multiple ways identity, performance and sound can meet. The defining link between their artistic practices is the choice of sound as their medium. The artists will never physically cross paths during their respective residencies: they shared a collection of their sounds before the opening of the pavilion as a basis for their work and will each leave one after their passage. Thus, at once tapping into an existing sound library and in turn forming a new one, each artist produces a soundscape – a synthesis of their own work and the traces left by their peers. The residency and production cycles of each artist are scheduled to run for the thirty-week duration of the Biennale. The space remains continuously accessible to the public.

A Comparative Dialogue Act

A Comparative Dialogue Act, a project by the Luxembourgish artist Andrea Mancini and the multidisciplinary collective Every Island has been conceived as an infrastructure for the transmission of sound – a shared production space challenging the entrenched notion of individual artistic authorship. Throughout the duration of the Biennale, the pavilion is hosting four guest artists who will produce and present new sound performances, thereby expanding the definition of a collective artwork. In this context, the notion of openness is not bound to the absence of limits, but rather to the appropriation of ‘the other’ and its contribution to open-ended scenarios. Sound and space are tuned: the spatial elements – floor and walls – are turned into sound devices, progressively shaping an immersive experience. Technology is used to develop this localized experiment through which artists and audience consider the conditions under which knowledge is transmitted and shared. The pavilion is at once the space where the soundscape is produced, and where it is played – the studio and the stage – in a gesture of radical transparency.

An unprecedented collaboration between four emerging artists from diverse backgrounds, the programme brings together Spanish musician and performer Bella Báguena, French transdisciplinary artist Célin Jiang, Ankara-born performance artist Selin Davasse and Swedish artist Stina Fors to present four intersecting approaches to the multiple ways identity, performance and sound can meet. The defining link between their artistic practices is the choice of sound as their medium. The artists will never physically cross paths during their respective residencies: they shared a collection of their sounds before the opening of the pavilion as a basis for their work and will each leave one after their passage. Thus, at once tapping into an existing sound library and in turn forming a new one, each artist produces a soundscape – a synthesis of their own work and the traces left by their peers. The residency and production cycles of each artist are scheduled to run for the thirty-week duration of the Biennale. The space remains continuously accessible to the public.

A Comparative Dialogue Act