Market

Market

Sunil Shah

2.53 min (PAUSE TO EXIT) 'Market' is located on the streets, canals and alleyways surrounding the Arsenale, the work accompanies your approach to and departure from the Venice Biennale. 'Nation' the accompanying work is located in the Giardini Gardens.

‘Market’ and ‘Nation’ are lo-fi sound textures that ironically highlight the two central ideological premises used in the formation and structure of the Venice Biennale: Money and Nation State. In both pieces, text is lifted from Wikipedia, and music from vaporwave - an appropriated, sampled and recycled musical genre. Each piece reflects the artifice of Venice as a spectacular, elite and highly prestigious marketplace placing emphasis and value on commodity and national sovereignty.

Sound editing: Michael Taiwo Music: ‘Watching Your Dance’, 18 Carat Affair, Vintage Romance (2011) Text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale

Sunil Shah is an artist and curator. He is interested in the politics of representation and conceptual, post-documentary and archival art practices in relation to history, memory and identity. He is a writer on Photography and Associate Editor of American Suburb X, an online photography and visual culture platform.

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