2009: Venice

Heritage is a complex word, with numerous meanings and as such is easily fossilized. The trick is to get inside the skin of heritage, to infiltrate it, to decode it and recycle its energy into new areas. This is how we bring life to it and how we become actors instead of spectators. Now the Biennale as a phenomenon is a way for nations to join the big game of art, this game has been going on for ages. The Biennale we are visiting is the oldest, greatest of them all; the Biennale of Art in Venice; a place where trade, art and politics have cohabited for very long time. So let´s infiltrate the Biennale and let it infect our minds and bodies.

• Contextual Introduction with Professors and co-Founders of Nurope (The Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe), (Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Bengt Krisstenson Uggla)
• Venetian history and art (Senior Associate Dean Charles Stinger, University at Buffalo)
• Welcome lecture (Professors Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Bengt Krisstenson Uggla, Ruth Bereson, Rebecca French and Luca Zan)
• Contextualising the Arsenale (Professor Luca Zan, University of Bologna, Italy)
• Making Worlds; on heritage hacking for contemporary visions (Daniel Birnbaum, Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009)
• Performance: Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
• Tour of the Arsenale exhibition Making Worlds with Biennale Director Daniel Birnbaum.
• Aesthetics and Arts; not to be confused or ? (Professor Antonio Strati, University of Trento)
• Site visit: Biennale Giardini National Pavilions
• Tour of the Biennale’s Historical Archives of Contemporary Art
• Industry of Heritage, building the future out of the past (Professor Andrea Saba, University of Rome)
• Tour of La Fenice opera house (Professor Maria Ida Biggi, University Ca’Foscari Venice, Italy)
• Performance: Michael Clark Company Production Degree Zero 
  
• Laws of Lace (Professor Rebecca French, University at Buffalo)
• Nurope member and artist Hanna Varis presents her current exhibition Traveler in Time.
• The Venice Biennale as a Department Store? (Dr. Nina Kivinen, Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland)
• Tour of Basilica di San Marco
• Making Worlds and Designing Prosperity (Professor Simonetta Carbonaro, Swedish Textile School of the Borås University College)
• Performance, Compagnia dell'Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale