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Fig. 2.3
In Piazza San Marco: John Craig Freeman, Tamiko Thiel, Mark Skwarek, Simona Lodi
(Share Festival), Gionatan Quintini (Les Liens Invisible). In screens: Lily and HongLei, Naoko
Tosa
2.5
Manifest.AR Artworks in the Venice Biennale
Intervention
The author Tamiko Thiel's work,
Shades of Absence
, is a series of three “virtual
pavilions” formed of terms of censorship and containing anonymized golden
silhouettes of artists whose works have been censored. It posited a transnational
community of censored artists in reply to Bice Curiger's questions: “Is the artistic
community a nation? If art was a nation what would be written in its constitution?”
Shades of Absence: Outside Inside
addressed the precarious status of artists
threatened with arrest or physical violence (see Fig.
2.4
).
Shades of Absence: Schlin-
gensief Gilded
is a memorial to the controversial artist Christoph Schlingensief, and
was placed directly in his posthumous exhibit in the German Pavilion (Fig.
2.5
).
Shades of Absence: Public Voids
puts silhouettes of artists whose works in public
places have been censored - including several by the Venice Biennale itself - in the
Piazza San Marco (Fig.
2.6
). In all works, touching the screen while viewing one
of the artworks brings a link to a website with cases of these particular types of
censorship (Thiel
2011
b).
Sander Veenhof's work
Battling Pavilions
directly challenged the role of the
curator, the exclusive nature of the Giardini and the limited number of national
pavilions allowed within its Sacred Grove. Users of this augmented reality app were
given different curatorial powers depending on their physical location. If they were
