News, Italy, Milano, 03 June 2009
The Iraq Pavilion
at the 53rd Venice Biennale
June 4 - 6, 2009
Giardini, Arsenale and urban space
I Need Love
art communication and survey
by Kadhum
curator: Riccardo Lisi
Iraq Pavilion, founded in 2003 during the Venice Biennale as individual artistic project, presents I NEED LOVE, art communication by Kadhum, Milan-based artist born in Iraq (1961).
His performance will be carried out in the entire Biennale and urban space and will include tools of art communication and social survey.
A deafening cry has risen since the civilization of man was born. A sharp cry, but it seems that no ear is able to perceive it. Love Love Love. Everything was based on this noble “sentiment”. Upon it were born religions, novels were written and billions of words were wasted.
Life is born from a simple instinctive gesture of love.
The earth needs the sun to continue to live, the sun also needs the earth to continue to exist. We can create an endless list of exchanges of unselfish love, from which a seed becomes a tree, the bees produce honey having loved a flower. Only the society of mankind is incapable of applying this natural concept and has diverted its existence to the reasoned thinking and away from their instinct. It is the primary need for all that lives to confirm their existence: “Amo ergo sum”.
The artist will perform “begging for love”, with a cardboard bearing the inscription “I NEED LOVE”, wandering in the Biennale during the opening days. The visitors will have a questionnaire to be filled out. To the love request they will answer: I can give:
A handshake / A hug / A kiss / Sex / Money / Nothing / All / My life / Other ...
The collected data will be processed also by demographic and social cluster (age range, sex, domicile nation, ethnical group, work, and so on). All the collected information’s will be published on www.artnow.it where the project is already present in form of poll.
at the 53rd Venice Biennale
June 4 - 6, 2009
Giardini, Arsenale and urban space
I Need Love
art communication and survey
by Kadhum
curator: Riccardo Lisi
Iraq Pavilion, founded in 2003 during the Venice Biennale as individual artistic project, presents I NEED LOVE, art communication by Kadhum, Milan-based artist born in Iraq (1961).
His performance will be carried out in the entire Biennale and urban space and will include tools of art communication and social survey.
A deafening cry has risen since the civilization of man was born. A sharp cry, but it seems that no ear is able to perceive it. Love Love Love. Everything was based on this noble “sentiment”. Upon it were born religions, novels were written and billions of words were wasted.
Life is born from a simple instinctive gesture of love.
The earth needs the sun to continue to live, the sun also needs the earth to continue to exist. We can create an endless list of exchanges of unselfish love, from which a seed becomes a tree, the bees produce honey having loved a flower. Only the society of mankind is incapable of applying this natural concept and has diverted its existence to the reasoned thinking and away from their instinct. It is the primary need for all that lives to confirm their existence: “Amo ergo sum”.
The artist will perform “begging for love”, with a cardboard bearing the inscription “I NEED LOVE”, wandering in the Biennale during the opening days. The visitors will have a questionnaire to be filled out. To the love request they will answer: I can give:
A handshake / A hug / A kiss / Sex / Money / Nothing / All / My life / Other ...
The collected data will be processed also by demographic and social cluster (age range, sex, domicile nation, ethnical group, work, and so on). All the collected information’s will be published on www.artnow.it where the project is already present in form of poll.
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