ANDREA MANCINI & EVERY ISLAND CHOSEN FOR THE LUXEMBOURG PAVILION IN VENICE

Andrea Mancini and Every Island’s project has been selected to represent Luxembourg at the 60^th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Their collaborative, international sound art project is presented in greater detail.

“A Comparative Dialogue Act” envisages the Luxembourg pavilion as “a place of artistic production, conceived as an open soundlab, in which artists activate various research processes and invite other collaborators to collectively create a collage-like soundscape, for the duration of the Biennale...”.

The sounds presented and produced range from experimental and melodic structures to speech and voice. The collective will be inviting a young and influential generation of sound artists to develop the “sound of the Bienniale” on its own premises, in an acoustic studio integrated into the architecture of the pavilion.

Andrea Mancini’s penchant for conceptualising sound is not new, and the Brussels-based artist and musician from Luxembourg demonstrated this at the last Multiplica festival at Les Rotondes with his work ‘Minerals’. His practice is multidisciplinary, exploring the interrelationship between space, subject and sound through installation, video and performance, using confrontations in the intangible materiality of sound.Every Island is a Brussels-based design collective formed in 2021 by Alessandro Cugola, Caterina Malavolti, Damir Draganić, Juliane Seehawer and Martina Genovesi. In particular, it uses ambiguity as a design tool, with space conceived as a scenography of transitions, roles, scenes and meanings.