Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty \nof Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. \nIt poses some questions about the issue of mediation and presents some key ideas and examples from \nthe history of ideas and practices concerning mediation in the visual arts. Following on from there it \nconsiders six registers of mediation as experienced at Venice 2009: a major biennale with associated \nexhibitions in that city redolent with history, memory and other dimensions of mediation between \nspace and a spectrum of materialities manifest in a wide range of art shown in the arena of a city inhabited \nby many art works, a city transformed by contemporary visual arts practices while simultaneously \ntransforming and mediating those works by providing a relational context for their reception by \nan engaged audience.
Author: Leoni Schmidt
Language: Afrikaans
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W23218700