Marco Fusinato: DESASTRES, Australia Pavilion

With The Australian Council for the Arts and CEO Adrian Collette, Artist Marco Fusinato presents a new project, “DESASTRES,” at the Australia Pavilion of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, the exploratory noise installation will combine image with sound and invite viewers to witness a solo performance by the artist for an impressive 200 days. Inspired by his passions for experimental music, underground culture, mass media imagery, and art history, and created during the pressurized COVID-19 lockdown, Fusinato invites viewers to experience a multi-sensory exhibition. “My idea of activating the audience is to remind them that they are alive. That they have a pulse…I’m interested in the tensions around opposing forces like noise versus silence, order versus disorder, the institution versus the underground, purity versus contamination. These binaries co-exist and in DESASTRES it’s that friction I want to maintain – not eliminate,” said Fusinato.