Ronen.Dvarim — Deuteronomy – projects, pictures and words

I returned a week ago from Venice after spending 10 days following the powers. I went to Rostock to participate in the anti g8 demonstrations, them flew to Venice to the see the 52^nd art biennale. From Venice we joined activists from the area whom squatted a train that took us to Rome and participated at a big demonstration against George Bush who was visiting the Italian capital.

I was planning on writing many things about our adventures. I wanted to talk about the dissonance I felt in Venice coming straight from the anti g8 camp. i came from wonderful experience, from a great feeling of solidarity, demanding together with people from around the world a more equal world with less poverty and oppression. Then, arriving in at the Venice biennale that displayed art work with similar themes, but even more it displayed overwhelming wealth and the differences between those who have and those who have not.

But I came back exhausted and confused and realized that I need more time to get my thoughts an ideas straight. I left home with the idea that just like the g8 summit is the gathering of the political elite opened only to the wealthiest countries, in a similar way the Venice biennale is the g8 of the cultural elite witch in most cases come from the same countries as those who met in Heiligendamm. I still hold this idea, but of course the reality is more complex and it’s important to recognize and explore this idea deeper.

So hopefully in the near future I will expand more on these themes and my feelings that arose in Venice and at the demonstrations. I would also like to explore deeper the relationship between art, esthetics and creative resistance that was very present at the anti g8 demonstrations. i would also like to expand on the presence of street art and street artist at the bienalle, but this will have to wait a couple weeks when I have more time.

Meanwhile enjoy my flicker photo set from my travels. As always, remarks are most welcome.