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Welcome to the second issue of the newsletter of Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
Published monthly, this newsletter covers the exhibition Paradise Lost, as well as the connecting events related to the Roma Pavilion.
The newsletter is distributed via email - please see the instructions for subscribing/unsubscribing at the bottom of this page.
IN FOCUS
No Roma!
An installation with racist anti-Roma films is placed in the Roma Pavilion during the 64th International Venice Film Festival, between August 29 and September 8. The work of OSA Archivum shows disgraceful and inhuman uses of film in promoting hatred and discrimination, and presents the context in which the art exhibited in Paradise Lost is created. More
Paradise: Lost or Under Construction?
Roundtable discussion on transnationalism in society and art will be held on September 17 in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion. Among the participants of this event co-organized by the European Cultural Foundation and the Roma Pavilion will be Katia Anguelova, Daniel Baker, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Annie Fletcher, Timea Junghaus, Guido Tintori and Angela Serino (moderator). More
Festival of Gypsy Culture in Venice
City of Venice partners with the Roma Pavilion to organize a number of concerts, literary events and a fashion show in Venice this autumn. More
INTERVIEW
Daniel Baker: We are never seen for what we are
Daniel Baker, one of the artists whose work is exhibited in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks about Roma identity, difficulties the Roma experience in his native Great Britain, and his art work that represents the “Imaginary Places, created by the society for the Gypsies”. More
AUDIO INTERVIEW
Delaine Le Bas: I was always aware that I was different
Delaine Le Bas, an artist presented in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, talks to BBC about her upbringing in a Roma family in the UK, her art, the Biennale, and the racism and romantic stereotypes that the Gypsy identity is stretched in-between. More
VIDEO
Multimedia tour through the Roma Pavilion on Artefacta website
Ten short movies about artists presented in Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion and their works are now available online. The movies are featured in the Artefacta Project - a multimedia tour of the 52nd Venice Biennale. More
Roma Pavilion on YouTube
A short movie about Paradise Lost-The First Roma Pavilion was recently added on YouTube. It was created by a young movie-maker from Prague, Czech Republic. More
PHOTOGRAPHY
Roma Pavilion in the Kunstforum
The web edition of the German magazine Kunstforum has put online a photo-tour of the 52nd Venice Biennale. More then 1400 photos take the visitor to numerous pavilions, among them the Roma Pavilion.
Photo tour of the Roma Pavilion on Universes-in-Universe
Universes-in-Universe Worlds of Art is a German website devoted to visual arts. It produces its own content – photography, video and text in German, English and Spanish – focusing on leading art events and artists around the world. Their recent additions feature tour of the Venice Biennale and tour of the Roma Pavilion.
WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT THE ROMA PAVILION
The visitors, art critics, media continue to praise The First Roma Pavilion: while for many, Roma art is ”una gradita sorpresa”, others reflect on the importance of the Roma Pavilion for challenging the Venice Biennale’s concept of national pavilions, or on the importance of building bridges among the nations in a new Europe. More
MEDIA ABOUT THE FIRST ROMA PAVILION
Leading international media covered the opening of the Pavilion – read and listen to the new coverage, published since the last issue of the Newsletter. More
ESSAY
The Roma Pavilion in Venice – A Bold Beginning
By Gottfried Wagner, Director of the European Cultural Foundation. More
THE PAVILION DIARY
July 15-August 30, 2007
Who visited the Pavilion in its first month? Numbers, names, and testimonies from the Book of Visitors and the Pavilion’s guards. More
SUPPORT THE ROMA PAVILION
The Roma Pavilion welcomes donations and support from organizations and individuals More
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