Venice —
After a dramatic lead up to this year’s Venice Biennale, involving the tragic death of its chief curator, outcry over Russia, Israel and the United States’ participation, and a prize jury that abruptly quit, it was, in the end, a set of portable toilets that stole the show during the opening week of the “Olympics of the art world.”
The toilets were the doing of choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger – Austria’s representing artist who, together with curator Nora-Swantje Almes, staged the event’s most popular and brilliantly mucky pavilion show titled “Seaworld Venice,” which tackles themes of purity and impurity, actions and consequences and ecological catastrophe.
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