The Irish Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale 2021, “Entanglement“, explores the materiality of data and the interwoven human, environmental, and cultural impacts of information and communication technologies.
With the collaboration between Culture Ireland and curators/exhibitors at Annex (Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, Fiona McDermott), “Entanglement” uses the prism of heat to explore the material relationship between data infrastructure and architecture through a structure that collapses local- and planetary-scale data infrastructure networks into the most primitive of socializing technologies: the campfire. The Ireland Pavilion draws from both contemporary and historical data storage artifacts as building blocks to form its structure.
