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A beautiful historic Scottish Fishing bay dating back to the 1700's, under duress due to problems between the "Owner" and local fishermen who have utilised this historic harbour as they and their fore fathers have done for hundreds of years .

 

I revisited today Tuesday 27th August 2019 , I was disappointed to see concrete barriers blocking access to cars and fishing boats , sad circumstances indeed , though I still managed to capture as much of the bays charm a I could , its ongoing battle and new concrete blocks preventing access made me feel unhappy and sad, any ways I have pasted some of my previous comments and news items reference this pathetic situation below for your perusal, I am on the side of the fishermen , its a sad tale indeed.

 

Check my previous posts in my Cove Bay folder for photos of the harbour in its glory days that I have taken over the years before this nonsense raised its ugly head.

 

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I love this bay, its a beautiful tranquil place, however after reading news reports on a court judgement 13/7/2018 forcing the fisher men to remove their boats within 28 days it saddened me, hence I made a trip today Friday 13th July 2018 to capture the views and scenery before this unpopular ruling is implemented, what a sad situation indeed, I have included the news report on the legal wrangle at the end of this description.

 

Cove is a 20 minute drive from my home in Aberdeen Scotland, it was a pleasure to visit today and capture the tranquility that it presented.

 

Scattered across the harbour are stones with various sealife characters carved into them.

 

Cove Bay is a suburb on the south-east edge of Aberdeen, Scotland.

 

Today Cove is home to over 7000 people. It is a popular residential location owing to its extremely village-like status.

 

It is a quiet suburb just at the edge of the City and in 2015 won the Silver award for Scotland in bloom. Nearby Altens and Tullos Industrial Estates, affording ample employment opportunities.

 

History

 

Cove Bay is situated to the east of the ancient Causey Mounth, which road was built on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points south from Stonehaven to Aberdeen.

 

This ancient trackway specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the Bridge of Dee is located) via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south.

 

The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose, who led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the battle of the Civil War in 1639.

 

Cove Bay was a village in the extreme north-east corner of Kincardine, governed from Stonehaven, until 1975, when it was added to the City of Aberdeen. Though simply referred to as Cove, in the 19th and early 20th centuries it was known as The Cove, becoming Cove Bay around 1912.

 

Industry

 

Cove has been noted for industries such as granite, which was quarried in several locations to the south of the village. Owing to its close-grained texture, Cove granite was one of the hardest in north-east Scotland and proved highly resistant to frost, making it ideal for causeway stones used in the construction of roads. It was widely exported to cities in England, including Billingsgate Market in London.

 

Fishing

The village itself sprung up around the fishing industry, with the boats berthed on a shingle beach, a gap in the rocks that afforded a natural harbour. During this time, it is estimated that approximately 300 people lived in the area. In the mid 19th century the fishing was at its height, which, over years, has included cod, haddock, salmon, herring and shellfish. The piers and breakwater were constructed in 1878. At the end of World War I the fishing began to decline. At present only a couple of boats pursue shellfish on a part-time basis.

 

Between 1894 and 1937, Cove also housed a fishmeal factory, the Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory, which was located at the edge of the cliffs. It produced quality manure which was exported to both Europe and America. It became locally known as "the stinker" because of the processing odour, which was highlighted by the Aberdeen entertainer Harry Gordon in a parody entitled A Song of Cove.

 

Amenities

Retail

 

Cove has just had a brand new Co-operative built just off of Earnshugh Circle.

To the west of Loirston Road is the Cove Shopping Centre, which overlooks Loirston Primary School. This houses a pharmacist, the Wee China Chinese takeaway/Chip shop, Ruby Tuesdays beauty salon and the Harr Rock cafe (Cove's second).

 

Within the new development of cove a local Sainsbury's has opened. There is also the Harr Rock Cafe (the first one), a hairdressers and a gift shop within the new development.

 

There are also 2 RS McColl newsagents. One located at Bervie Brow in Altens, and a second located on the corner of Loirston Road and Cove Road which also houses a Post Office.

 

Hospitality

 

The Cove Bay hotel is located on Colsea Road. There is also The Aberdeen Altens Hotel in Altens, which has 216 bedrooms, making it the largest of the three Thistle Hotels in Aberdeen.

 

There is also a pub, the Langdykes which now has an Indian restaurant situated inside called The Curry lounge which you can sit in or take away.

 

Transport

 

Bus services to and from Cove and the wider area of Aberdeen are available. These are run by First Aberdeen with the numbers 3 (to Mastrick) and the 18 to Dyce, via Kincorth. Stagecoach also cover cove partially, with numbers 7A & 8 (Both to the City Centre).

 

Healthcare

Cove Bay has its own medical centre, the Cove Bay Medical Centre. It was originally located on Catto Walk, but moved to a new facility off Earns Hugh Road. Cove Dental Care has since moved into the old surgery building.

 

Sport

Cove is currently home to two football teams: Cove Rangers, who currently play in the Highland Football League, they temporarily play in Harlow Park, Inverurie, as their old home Allan park was demolished to make way for housing. Cove Thistle, who hold amateur status. Sunday amateur team Cove Revolution folded in 2010.

 

There are also many youth teams in the area that are run by Cove Youth FC. The Cove Youth FC area SFA credited community club, organizing players from 6 years old up to 19 years old. They also have a girls section. The Cove Community Football Trust is run by Cove Rangers FC, Cove Thistle FC and Cove Youth FC.

 

Other Amenities

A state-of-the-art library was recently built between Loirston Primary School and the Cove Shopping Centre. There are blueprints for a local sports centre to also be built in the near future.

 

Education

Cove has two primary schools, Charleston Primary School and Loirston Primary School. Most secondary pupils attend the nearby Kincorth Academy, but some choose to go to Portlethen Academy.

 

Future Developments

Aberdeen Gateway[edit]

Construction on a new Aberdeen Gateway industrial development began in 2008. It will see new offices and industrial units built to the south of the village. Current tenants at the site include National Oilwell Varco (NOV), Driving Standards Agency and Hydrasun. A Community football pitch is also inlcluded within the development.

 

Cove Academy

Plans for a secondary school in Cove have now been approved and will be situated alongside Wellington Road. It is thought that once this is built pupils from Cove, Torry as well as Kincorth will attend this school.

 

The Legal Wrangle - Landowner V Fishermen - Judgement 13/7/18

  

Fishermen told to move boats from Cove Bay after legal dispute

 

Fishermen have been told to move their boats from an Aberdeen bay after a long-running dispute.

Several fishermen were fighting an eviction order on behalf of landowner Pralhad Kolhe at Cove Bay, where they had been fishing for many years.

In a written judgement, a sheriff has given them 28 days to move their boats and equipment from Mr Kolhe's land.

However, Sheriff Andrew Miller also ordered the removal of obstructions to vehicular access onto the pier.

 

The case was heard at Aberdeen Sheriff Court earlier this year.

 

One of the fisherman, Jim Adam, told a court he was "stunned" to receive a legal letter telling him to remove his boat.

 

He had been fishing from Cove Bay since 1966.

'We were hopeful'

 

The first day of the hearing heard the letter said the landowner, who lives in a house overlooking the harbour, was unable to make use of his land for amenity purposes and that he did not wish Mr Adam's vessel, or any other vessel, on his land.

 

In the ruling, Sheriff Miller also gave Mr Kolhe 28 days to remove the obstructions to vehicle access to the pier.

Mr Adam told BBC Scotland: "We are disappointed, we were hopeful.

 

"The good news is at least for the recreational folks they have got vehicle access."

 

News Report From P&J Aberdeen

 

A campaign group could use new powers to try to buy the land at the centre of a long-running dispute over access to Cove Harbour.

 

Councillors in Aberdeen agreed yesterday to investigate using the purchase powers contained in the Community Empowerment Scotland Act 2015 to finally resolve the stand-off.

 

The proposal was backed after Jim Adam, chairman of the Cove Fishermen Association, delivered an emotional plea to Aberdeen City Council’s petitions committee yesterday.

 

He outlined the group’s ongoing disagreement with the landowner, Pralhad Kohle, over vehicle access to the harbour-side.

 

Mr Adam highlighted the historical use of the harbour since the 1700s for fishing boats and recreational users, showing members photographs as evidence.

 

He also said the denial of emergency access to the harbour would create safety issues, and spoke of a strong community spirit in the village.

 

Cove Councillor Neil Cooney stated: “Boats have been fishing out of Cove since mediaeval times; we need to retain that heritage.”

 

Committee convener Alan Donnelly said: “You would think, with 11,000 signatures, that the owner would take it seriously and come along.”

 

He added: “We are moving today that the council refers the petition to the landowner, with the hope that they can come to an amicable solution.

 

“And request a report to the communities, housing and infrastructure committee to investigate the viability of the community to use the new Community Empowerment Scotland Act 2015 to purchase the land.”

 

Speaking afterwards Mr Adam said: “We are very encouraged by the support from the council. It’s very positive and has opened up a number of avenues, but we would like there to be an amicable solution.

 

“The Community Empowerment Act is a very useful tool, but it would be a last resort.”

 

Mr Kohle, who was not in attendance, owns a house overlooking the bay and some of the land at the harbour below.

 

Scotland’s First Minister has pledged to investigate the “suffering” faced by the Cove Harbour fishing community as a result of a devastating fire and a dispute with the landlord.

 

The first minister promised action after being warned the Scottish Government risked ignoring a group whose livelihoods had been threatened by recent events.

 

Ms Sturgeon said the government wanted “to do everything we possibly can” to help communities faced with difficulties after the Cove Harbour situation was raised with her.

 

In January, thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused when a fire, thought to be deliberate, destroyed five vessels, boating equipment, a shed and fishing gear.

 

The community has also been involved in a long-running battle with landowner Pralhad Kolhe, a plastic surgeon who had sought to evict the fishermen’s fleet of traditional vessels from the part of the harbour he owns.

 

The Cove Fisherman’s Association had a four-year legal battle with Mr Kolhe, and lost their fight to dock their small fleet of traditional vessels at a particular part of Cove Harbour last year.

 

Last August the remaining vessels at the site were finally moved from Mr Kolhe’s land to a small corner of the harbour. The judgement said access to the pier for walkers and vehicles should be maintained.

 

After January’s fire, North East MSP Liam Kerr wrote to Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing asking for support for the fishermen.

 

Mr Ewing replied say he was “very saddened” by the disaster but financial support would be “limited”.

 

Yesterday Mr Kerr raised Cove Harbour with Ms Sturgeon in the Scottish Parliament.

 

Mr Kerr told the first minister the Cove Harbour fishing community was “suffering” and faced “significant” legal costs.

 

The Tory MSP said the fishermen had requested a meeting with Mr Ewing “but to no avail”.

 

And he asked Ms Sturgeon to persuade Mr Ewing to meet the community and “not risk ignoring a community facing the loss of their livelihoods”.

 

The First Minister said: “Of course we want to do everything we possibly can to help any community experiencing difficulties.

 

“I am not aware beyond what the member has just said of the content of the correspondence to Fergus Ewing.

 

“But I am happy to give an undertaking to look into that and if Fergus Ewing thinks there is help the Scottish Government can offer – certainly to meet with those affected.”

 

A group of Aberdeen fishermen who lost a court case last year have been hit with a legal fee bill of around £45,000 – just days after their cherished vessels were destroyed in a malicious fire.

 

The Cove Fishermen’s Association was forced to move its boats at Cove Harbour last year after a court ruled in favour of landowner Pralhad Kolhe – who owns sections of the historic bay.

 

Mr Kolhe has been seeking to remove the small fleet of boats from his land, but in the months since the court’s decision, the fishermen have continued their activities by keeping their remaining vessels in a much smaller pocket of the harbour not under the landowner’s control, further away from the shoreline

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Trying out a gold wrap dress at home. I wasn't too taken with it to be honest, I don't think it really suits me.

 

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Our friend Trisha was up in Hull so we met up with her on Friday night. We tried a new place in the Prince's Quasy shopping centre called Iron Lilies, a nice looking new bar that has opened, but you had to book a table and we hadn't so we ended up sat outside for a drink.

 

After that we went to the Old Town to the Scale and Feather, before heading back to The Star to finish the evening. A lovely time!

 

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The Mobile Emergency Room is a project by Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel, a participating artist of the Maldives Pavilion working with art formats developed around the notion of emergency.

 

www.emergencyrooms.org

 

Emergency Room is a format providing space for artists to engage in urgent debates, address societal dysfunctions and express emergencies in the now, today, before it is too late. Geoffroy’s approach allows immediate artistic intervention and displaces the contemporary to the status of delayed comment on yesterday’s world.

Taking as point of departure climate change and the Maldives, Geoffroy developed a scenario of disappearance and translated actual emergencies and hospitality needs into artistic interventions. In this context he activated his penetration format in order to transform “rigid exhibition spaces” into “elastic and generous exhibition spaces”.

An intervention facilitated by curator Christine Eyene, the Mobile Emergency Room was set up at the Zimbabwe Pavilion during the opening week of the biennale with the hospitality of commissioner Doreen Sibanda and curator Raphael Chikukwa. The first pieces presented in this room consisted in Geoffroy’s tent and an installation by Polish artist Christian Costa. Since then it has been animated online and has extended from being a space for artists expressing emergencies about climate change, to encompassing various emergency topics.

From 24 to 28 August, Geoffroy was in Venice collaborating with Danish artists Nadia Plesner, Mads Vind Ludvigsen, who created new work everyday, raising various emergencies and concerns, with a daily change of exhibition (“passage”) at 3.00 pm. For his last day in Venice, Geoffroy addressed the Syrian situation.

 

The work produced during this intervention is displayed until 30 September. The presentation is based on Geoffroy's concept of "Delay Museum" where art created for past emergencies is exhibited, while new work enters the Mobile Emergency Room.

 

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the Emergency Room Mobile at the Zimbabwe pavilion / Venice Biennale has now been completed with some work from the The Delay Museum ,Please visit the pavilion when you go the Venice Biennale this is part of the PENETRATIONS formats ( the Zimbabwe pavilion gave hopsitality for a period of several monthes ) the displayed art works in the Delay Museum are still "boiling " as they are from last week . ( Nadia Plesner / Mads Vind Ludvigsen , COLONEL ) ( this project is a convergence with BIENNALIST / Emergency Room ) more on Christine Eyene blog as she facilated and work within ....This penetration was in connection with my participation in the Maldives pavilion " CAN A NATION WELCOME ANOTHER NATION ?"CAN EMERGENCIES BE RANKED " .Thank you also for the work by David Marin , @Guillaume Dimanche and Christian Costa

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VENICE BIENNALE / VENEZIA BIENNIAL 2013 : BIENNALIST

 

www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html

 

Biennalist is an Art Format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel debating with artistic tools on Biennales and other cultural managed events . Often those events promote them selves with thematics and press releases faking their aim . Biennalist take the thematics of the Biennales very seriously , and test their pertinance . Artists have questioned for decade the canvas , the pigment , the museum ... since 1989 we question the Biennales .Often Biennalist converge with Emergency Room providing a burning content that cannot wait ( today before it is too late )

 

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Countries( nations ) that participate at the Venice Biennale 55 th ( 2013 Biennale di Venezia ) in Italy ( at Giardini or Arsenale or ? ) , Encyclopedic Palace is curated by Massimiliano Gioni

 

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,

Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech , Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Chile, China, Congo,

Slovak Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia,

Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore

Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay

 

Eight countries will also participate for the first time in next year's biennale: the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay. In 2011, 89 international pavilions, the most ever, were accessible in the Giardini and across the city.

 

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lists of artists participating at the Venice Biennale

 

Hilma af Klint, Victor Alimpiev, Ellen Altfest, Paweł Althamer, Levi Fisher Ames, Yuri Ancarani, Carl Andre, Uri Aran, Yüksel Arslan, Ed Atkins, Marino Auriti, Enrico Baj, Mirosław Bałka, Phyllida Barlow, Morton Bartlett, Gianfranco Baruchello, Hans Bellmer, Neïl Beloufa, Graphic Works of Southeast Asia and Melanesia, Hugo A. Bernatzik Collection, Ștefan Bertalan, Rossella Biscotti, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, John Bock, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Geta Brătescu, KP Brehmer, James Lee Byars, Roger Caillois, Varda Caivano, Vlassis Caniaris, James Castle, Alice Channer, George Condo, Aleister Crowley & Frieda Harris, Robert Crumb, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David, Tacita Dean, John De Andrea, Thierry De Cordier, Jos De Gruyter e Harald Thys, Walter De Maria, Simon Denny, Trisha Donnelly, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Linda Fregni Nagler, Peter Fritz, Aurélien Froment, Phyllis Galembo, Norbert Ghisoland, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Domenico Gnoli, Robert Gober, Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj, Guo Fengyi, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Wade Guyton, Haitian Vodou Flags, Duane Hanson, Sharon Hayes, Camille Henrot, Daniel Hesidence, Roger Hiorns, Channa Horwitz, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, René Iché, Hans Josephsoh, Kan Xuan, Bouchra Khalili, Ragnar Kjartansson, Eva Kotátková, Evgenij Kozlov, Emma Kunz, Maria Lassnig, Mark Leckey, Augustin Lesage, Lin Xue, Herbert List, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Sarah Lucas, Helen Marten, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Marisa Merz, Pierre Molinier, Matthew Monahan, Laurent Montaron, Melvin Moti, Matt Mullican, Ron Nagle, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Shinro Ohtake, J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Henrik Olesen, John Outterbridg, Paño Drawings, Marco Paolini, Diego Perrone, Walter Pichler, Otto Piene, Eliot Porter, Imran Qureshi, Carol Rama, Charles Ray, James Richards, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Pamela Rosenkranz, Dieter Roth, Viviane Sassen, Shinichi Sawada, Hans Schärer, Karl Schenker, Michael Schmidt, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Tino Sehgal, Richard Serra, Shaker Gift Drawings, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons e Allan McCollum, Drossos P. Skyllas, Harry Smith, Xul Solar, Christiana Soulou, Eduard Spelterini, Rudolf Steiner, Hito Steyerl, Papa Ibra Tall, Dorothea Tanning, Anonymous Tantric Paintings, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Andra Ursuta, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Stan VanDerBeek, Erik van Lieshout, Danh Vo, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Günter Weseler, Jack Whitten, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kohei YoshiyUKi, Sergey Zarva, Anna Zemánková, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski ,Artur Żmijewski.

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other pavilions at Venice Biennale

 

Andorra

Artists: Javier Balmaseda, Samantha Bosque, Fiona Morrison

Commissioner: Henry Périer

Deputy Commissioners: Francesc Rodríguez, Ermengol Puig, Ruth Casabella

Curators: Josep M. Ubach, Paolo De Grandis

Venue: Arsenale di Venezia, Nappa 90

 

Angola

Artist: Edson Chagas

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Curators: Beyond Entropy (Paula Nascimento, Stefano Rabolli Pansera), Jorge Gumbe, Feliciano dos Santos

Venue: Palazzo Cini, San Vio, Dorsoduro 864

 

Argentina

Artist: Nicola Costantino

Commissioner: Magdalena Faillace

Curator: Fernando Farina

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Armenia

Artist: Ararat Sarkissian

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Curator: Arman Grogoryan

Venue: Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, everyday from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

 

Australia

Artist: Simryn Gill

Commissioner: Simon Mordant

Deputy Commissioner: Penelope Seidler

Curator: Catherine de Zegher

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Austria

Artist: Mathias Poledna

Commissioner/Curator: Jasper Sharp

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Azerbaijan

Artists: Rashad Alakbarov, Sanan Aleskerov, Chingiz Babayev, Butunay Hagverdiyev, Fakhriyya Mammadova, Farid Rasulov

Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation

Curator: Hervé Mikaeloff

Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S. Stefano, San Marco 2949

 

Bahamas

Artist: Tavares Strachan

Commissioner: Nalini Bethel, Ministry of Tourism

Curators: Jean Crutchfield, Robert Hobbs

Deputy Curator: Stamatina Gregory

Venue: Arsenale, Tese Cinquecentesche

 

Bangladesh

Chhakka Artists’ Group: Mokhlesur Rahman, Mahbub Zamal, A. K. M. Zahidul Mustafa, Ashok Karmaker, Lala Rukh Selim, Uttam Kumar Karmaker. Dhali Al Mamoon, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Gavin Rain, Gianfranco Meggiato, Charupit School

Commissioner/Curator: Francesco Elisei.

Curator: Fabio Anselmi.

Venue: Officina delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 947

 

Bahrain

Artists: Mariam Haji, Waheeda Malullah, Camille Zakharia

Commissioner: Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Culture

Curator: Melissa Enders-Bhatiaa

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Belgium

Artist: Berlinde De Bruyckere

Commissioner: Joke Schauvliege, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture

Curator: J. M. Coetzee

Deputy Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Artist: Mladen Miljanovic

Commissioners: Sarita Vujković, Irfan Hošić

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco

 

Brazil

Artists: Hélio Fervenza, Odires Mlászho, Lygia Clark, Max Bill, Bruno Munari

Commissioner: Luis Terepins, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Curator: Luis Pérez-Oramas

Deputy Curator: André Severo

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Canada

Artist: Shary Boyle

Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Curator: Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Central Asia

Artists: Vyacheslav Akhunov, Sergey Chutkov, Saodat Ismailova, Kamilla Kurmanbekova, Ikuru Kuwajima, Anton Rodin, Aza Shade, Erlan Tuyakov

Commissioner: HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation)

Deputy Commissioner: Dean Vanessa Ohlraun (Oslo National Academy of the Arts/The Academy of Fine Art)

Curators: Ayatgali Tuleubek, Tiago Bom

Scientific Committee: Susanne M. Winterling

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3199-3201

 

Chile

Artist: Alfredo Jaar

Commissioner: CNCA, National Council of Culture and the Arts

Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

China

Artists: He Yunchang, Hu Yaolin, Miao Xiaochun, Shu Yong, Tong Hongsheng, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Xiaotao

Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG)

Curator: Wang Chunchen

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Costa Rica

Artists: Priscilla Monge, Esteban Piedra, Rafael Ottón Solís, Cinthya Soto

Commissioner: Francesco Elisei

Curator: Francisco Córdoba, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Fiorella Resenterra)

Venue: Ca’ Bonvicini, Santa Croce

 

Croatia

Artist: Kata Mijatovic

Commissioner/Curator: Branko Franceschi.

Venue: Sala Tiziano, Opera don Orione Artigianelli, Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Gesuati 919

 

Cuba

Artists: Liudmila and Nelson, Maria Magdalena Campos & Neil Leonard, Sandra Ramos, Glenda León, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel, Hermann Nitsch, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du, H.H.Lim, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Francesca Leone

Commissioner: Miria Vicini

Curators: Jorge Fernández Torres, Giacomo Zaza

Venue: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Palazzo Reale, Piazza San Marco 17

 

Cyprus

Artists: Lia Haraki, Maria Hassabi, Phanos Kyriacou, Constantinos Taliotis, Natalie Yiaxi, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister

Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou

Deputy Commissioners: Angela Skordi, Marika Ioannou

Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

 

Czech Republic & Slovak Republic

Artists: Petra Feriancova, Zbynek Baladran

Commissioner: Monika Palcova

Curator: Marek Pokorny

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Denmark

Artist: Jesper Just in collaboration with Project Projects

Commissioners: The Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts: Jette Gejl Kristensen (chairman), Lise Harlev, Jesper Elg, Mads Gamdrup, Anna Krogh

Curator: Lotte S. Lederballe Pedersen

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Egypt

Artists: Mohamed Banawy, Khaled Zaki

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Estonia

Artist: Dénes Farkas

Commissioner: Maria Arusoo

Curator: Adam Budak

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3199, San Samuele

 

Finland

Artist: Antti Laitinen

Commissioner: Raija Koli

Curators: Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

France

Artist: Anri Sala

Commissioner: Institut français

Curator: Christine Macel

Venue: Pavilion of Germany at the Giardini

 

Georgia

Artists: Bouillon Group,Thea Djordjadze, Nikoloz Lutidze, Gela Patashuri with Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, Gio Sumbadze

Commissioner: Marine Mizandari, First Deputy Minister of Culture

Curator: Joanna Warsza

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Germany

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh

Commissioner/Curator: Susanne Gaensheimer

Venue: Pavilion of France at Giardini

 

Great Britain

Artist: Jeremy Deller

Commissioner: Andrea Rose

Curator: Emma Gifford-Mead

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Greece

Artist: Stefanos Tsivopoulos

Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports

Curator: Syrago Tsiara

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Holy See

Artists: Lawrence Carroll, Josef Koudelka, Studio Azzurro

Curator: Antonio Paolucci

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Hungary

Artist: Zsolt Asztalos

Commissioner: Kunstahalle (Art Hall)

Curator: Gabriella Uhl

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Iceland

Artist: Katrín Sigurðardóttir

Commissioner: Dorotheé Kirch

Curators: Mary Ceruti , Ilaria Bonacossa

Venue: Lavanderia, Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Fondamenta del Soccorso, Dorsoduro 2596

 

Indonesia

Artists: Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Eko Nugroho, Entang Wiharso, Rahayu Supanggah, Sri Astari, Titarubi

Commissioner: Soedarmadji JH Damais

Deputy Commissioner: Achille Bonito Oliva

Assistant Commissioner: Mirah M. Sjarif

Curators: Carla Bianpoen, Rifky Effendy

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Iraq

Artists: Abdul Raheem Yassir, Akeel Khreef, Ali Samiaa, Bassim Al-Shaker, Cheeman Ismaeel, Furat al Jamil, Hareth Alhomaam, Jamal Penjweny, Kadhim Nwir, WAMI (Yaseen Wami, Hashim Taeeh)

Commissioner: Tamara Chalabi (Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture)

Deputy Commissioner: Vittorio Urbani

Curator: Jonathan Watkins.

Venue: Ca' Dandolo, San Tomà, Venezia

 

Ireland

Artist: Richard Mosse

Commissioner, Curator: Anna O’Sullivan

Venue: Fondaco Marcello, San Marco 3415

 

Israel

Artist: Gilad Ratman

Commissioners: Arad Turgeman, Michael Gov

Curator: Sergio Edelstein

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Italy

Artists: Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa

Commissioner: Maddalena Ragni

Curator: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

Venue: Italian Pavilion, Tese delle Vergini at Arsenale

 

Ivory Coast

Artists: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Tamsir Dia, Jems Koko Bi, Franck Fanny

Commissioner: Paolo De Grandis

Curator: Yacouba Konaté

Venue: Spiazzi, Arsenale, Castello 3865

 

Japan

Artist: Koki Tanaka

Commissioner: The Japan Foundation

Curator: Mika Kuraya

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Kenya

Artists: Kivuthi Mbuno, Armando Tanzini, Chrispus Wangombe Wachira, Fan Bo, Luo Ling & Liu Ke, Lu Peng, Li Wei, He Weiming, Chen Wenling, Feng Zhengjie, César Meneghetti

Commissioner: Paola Poponi

Curators: Sandro Orlandi, Paola Poponi

Venue: Caserma Cornoldi, Castello 4142 and San Servolo island

 

Korea (Republic of)

Artist: Kimsooja

Commissioner/Curator: Seungduk Kim

Deputy Commissioner: Kyungyun Ho

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Kosovo

Artist: Petrit Halilaj

Commissioner: Erzen Shkololli

Curator: Kathrin Rhomberg

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Kuwait

Artists: Sami Mohammad, Tarek Al-Ghoussein

Commissioner: Mohammed Al-Asoussi (National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters)

Curator: Ala Younis

Venue: Palazzo Michiel, Sestriere Cannaregio, Strada Nuova

 

Latin America

Istituto Italo-Latino Americano

Artists:

Marcos Agudelo, Miguel Alvear & Patricio Andrade, Susana Arwas, François Bucher, Fredi Casco, Colectivo Quintapata (Pascal Meccariello, Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda, Belkis Ramírez), Humberto Díaz, Sonia Falcone, León & Cociña, Lucía Madriz, Jhafis Quintero, Martín Sastre, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Juliana Stein, Simón Vega, Luca Vitone, David Zink Yi.

Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann. In collaboration with: Cristián Silva-Avária, Anna Azevedo, Paola Barreto, Fred Benevides, Anna Bentes, Hermano Callou, Renata Catharino, Patrick Sonni Cavalier, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Luiz Garcia, André Herique, Bruna Mastrogiovanni, Cezar Migliorin, Felipe Ribeiro, Roberto Robalinho, Bruno Vianna, Beny Wagner, Christian Jankowski

 

Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal

Curator: Alfons Hug

Deputy Curator: Paz Guevara

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Latvia

Artists: Kaspars Podnieks, Krišs Salmanis

Commissioners: Zane Culkstena, Zane Onckule

Curators: Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Alise Tifentale

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Lebanon

Artist: Akram Zaatari

Commissioner: Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL)

Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Lithuania

Artist: Gintaras Didžiapetris, Elena Narbutaite, Liudvikas Buklys, Kazys Varnelis, Vytaute Žilinskaite, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister

Commissioners: Jonas Žokaitis, Aurime Aleksandraviciute

Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

Venue: Palasport Arsenale, Calle San Biagio 2132, Castello

 

Luxembourg

Artist: Catherine Lorent

Commissioner: Clément Minighetti

Curator: Anna Loporcaro

Venue: Ca’ del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052

 

Macedonia

Artist: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

Commissioner: Halide Paloshi

Curator: Ana Frangovska

Venue: Scuola dei Laneri, Santa Croce 113/A

 

Maldives

Participants: Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Thierry Geoffrey (aka Colonel), Gregory Niemeyer, Stefano Cagol, Hanna Husberg, Laura McLean & Kalliopi, Tsipni-Kolaza, Khaled Ramadan, Moomin Fouad, Mohamed Ali, Sama Alshaibi, Patrizio Travagli, Achilleas Kentonis & Maria Papacaharalambous, Wooloo, Khaled Hafez in collaboration with Wael Darwesh, Ursula Biemann, Heidrun Holzfeind & Christoph Draeger, Klaus Schafler

Commissioner: Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture

Curators: CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets (Alfredo Cramerotti, Aida Eltorie, Khaled

Ramadan)

Deputy Curators: Maren Richter, Camilla Boemio

Venue: Gervasuti Foundation, Via Garibaldi

 

Mexico

Artist: Ariel Guzik

Commissioner: Gastón Ramírez Feltrín

Curator: Itala Schmelz

Venue: Ex Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Campo San Lorenzo

 

Montenegro

Artist: Irena Lagator Pejovic

Commissioner/Curator: Nataša Nikcevic

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero Venezia – Ground Floor

 

The Netherlands

Artist: Mark Manders

Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund

Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

New Zealand

Artist: Bill Culbert

Commissioner: Jenny Harper

Deputy Commissioner: Heather Galbraith

Curator: Justin Paton

Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà, Castello

 

Nordic Pavilion (Finland, Norway)

 

Finland:

Artist: Terike Haapoja

Commissioner: Raija Koli

Curators: Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Norway:

Artists: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg

Commissioner: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)

Curators: Marta Kuzma, Pablo Lafuente, Angela Vettese

Venue: Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

 

Paraguay

Artists: Pedro Barrail, Felix Toranzos, Diana Rossi, Daniel Milessi

Commissioner: Elisa Victoria Aquino Laterza

Deputy Commissioner: Nori Vaccari Starck

Curator: Osvaldo González Real

Venue: Palazzo Carminati, Santa Croce 1882

 

Poland

Artist: Konrad Smolenski

Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska

Curators: Agnieszka Pindera, Daniel Muzyczuk

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Portugal

Artist: Joana Vasconcelos

Commissioner: Direção-Geral das Artes/Secretário de Estado da Cultura, Governo de Portugal

Curator: Miguel Amado

Venue: Riva dei Partigiani

 

Romania

Artists: Maria Alexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmus

Commissioner: Monica Morariu

Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian

Curator: Raluca Voinea

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Artists: Anca Mihulet, Apparatus 22 (Dragos Olea, Maria Farcas,Erika Olea), Irina Botea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matei, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan

Commissioner: Monica Morariu

Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian

Curator: Anca Mihulet

Venue: Nuova Galleria dell'Istituto Romeno di Venezia, Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannaregio 2214

 

Russia

Artist: Vadim Zakharov

Commissioner: Stella Kasaeva

Curator: Udo Kittelmann

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Serbia

Artists: Vladimir Peric, Miloš Tomic

Commissioner: Maja Ciric

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Singapore

Cancelled the participation

 

Slovenia

Artist: Jasmina Cibic

Commissioner: Blaž Peršin

Curator: Tevž Logar

Venue: Galleria A+A, San Marco 3073

 

South Africa

Contemporary South African Art and the Archive

Commissioner: Saul Molobi

Curator: Brenton Maart

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Spain

Artist: Lara Almarcegui

Commissioner/Curator: Octavio Zaya

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Switzerland

Artist: Valentin Carron

Commissioners: Pro Helvetia - Sandi Paucic and Marianne Burki

Deputy Commissioner: Pro Helvetia - Rachele Giudici Legittimo

Curator: Giovanni Carmine

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Syrian Arab Republic

Artists: Giorgio De Chirico, Miro George, Makhowl Moffak, Al Samman Nabil, Echtai Shaffik, Giulio Durini, Dario Arcidiacono, Massimiliano Alioto, Felipe Cardena, Roberto Paolini, Concetto Pozzati, Sergio Lombardo, Camilla Ancilotto, Lucio Micheletti, Lidia Bachis, Cracking Art Group, Hannu Palosuo

Commissioner: Christian Maretti

Curator: Duccio Trombadori

Venue: Isola di San Servolo

 

Taiwan

Artists: Bernd Behr, Chia-Wei Hsu, Kateřina Šedá + BATEŽO MIKILU

Curator: Esther Lu

Organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209, San Marco

 

Thailand

Artists: Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch, Arin Rungjang

Commissioner: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture

Curators: Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Worathep Akkabootara

Venue: Santa Croce 556

 

Turkey

Artist: Ali Kazma

Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Curator: Emre Baykal

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

Tuvalu

Artist: Vincent J.F.Huang

Commissioners: Apisai Ielemia, Minister of Foreign Affair, Trade, Tourism, Environment & Labour; Tapugao Falefou, Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, Environment & Labour

Curators: An-Yi Pan, Szu Hsien Li, Shu Ping Shih

Venue: Forte Marghera, via Forte Marghera, 30

 

Ukraine

Artists: Ridnyi Mykola, Zinkovskyi Hamlet, Kadyrova Zhanna

Commissioner: Victor Sydorenko

Curators: Soloviov Oleksandr, Burlaka Victoria

Venue: Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo Stefano

 

United Arab Emirates

Artist: Mohammed Kazem

Commissioner: Dr. Lamees Hamdan

Curator: Reem Fadda

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale, Sale d'Armi

 

Uruguay

Artist: Wifredo Díaz Valdéz

Commissioner: Ricardo Pascale

Curators: Carlos Capelán, Verónica Cordeiro

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

USA

Artist: Sarah Sze

Commissioners/Curators: Carey Lovelace, Holly Block

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Venezuela

Colectivo de Artistas Urbanos Venezolanos

Commissioner: Edgar Ernesto González

Curator: Juan Calzadilla

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

Zimbabwe

Artists: Portia Zvavahera, Michele Mathison, Rashid Jogee, Voti Thebe, Virginia Chihota

Commissioner: Doreen Sibanda

Curator: Raphael Chikukwa

Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà, Castello 3701

 

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My last week off before going back to work, I went for a day out in York to meet my friend Sarah who was down from Newcastle.

 

What a lovely day out! We had a Yorkshire Pudding wrap for lunch before a wander around a visiting a few bars.

 

The last bar Sarah took me to was Evil Eye, a cocktail bar she knows. Wow, the menu was extensive to say the least! I don't drink alcohol and usually the mocktail selection is perhaps 2 or 3 but there were 26 mocktails available!

 

Such a quirky place as well, all sorts of quirky decorations and touches. I loved it!

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Here Abide Monsters by Andre Norton [review 0848 - Fantasy novel]

  

The fantasy novel "Here Abides Monsters" by Andre Norton (1912-2005) was first published in 1973. For this reader, a sincere admirer of her books, it was a challenging yet ultimately rewarding reading experience and I can recommend this title.

 

Our young male protagonist, Nick Shaw, is troubled by a new step-mother who is infringing on his life and his relationship with his dad. He's looking forward to getting away alone to the family camp for some relaxation, fishing and time to sort out his future. Nick is introspective, self-reliant and resourceful. In fact he is the typical young male character Norton used to great success in her many science-fiction novels. While helping a young lady, Linda Durant, find a friend's camp they are somehow transported to a land populated with a menagerie of magical beings, monsters - most out of British folklore; many groups of other disorientated transported folks; two types of warring flying saucers; and an unapproachable fairy like castle.

Nick and Linda meet and join up with a group from WW2 era England who somehow had escaped from a crashed saucer. Most of the book consist of interactions between the group members, observing the incredible inhabitants of the land and stealthily traveling from one refuge to another seeking safety and food. Talk of escape and return to home and what exactly is the purpose of the land are major topics of discussion. We are never enlightened to any firm conclusions - just speculations dictated by limited understanding of the significance of their unwelcome existence.

The land starts to exhibit a miasma of increasing dark menacing creatures and some cryptic warnings are given to the group. Are the dreaded creatures a reflection of personal fears or is a major conflagration about to take place? As the book concludes a desperate escape attempt results in a inconclusive ending of the story.

 

Norton wrote no further books concerning this land which is untypical of her. Early in the story Nick Shaw and a store keeper friend discuss local folks who have apparently "disappeared" or have been "taken" never to return. Some actual books: "Our Haunted Planet"[1971] by John A. Keel; "More Things"[1969] by Ivan Sanderson and books by Charles Fort are discussed in light of the historical disappearances in the area. To say the least this is a strange book but it does tie in to Norton's major interest in the occult and folklore which are main topics of many of her later books. A strange story that kept my interest told by a master story teller.

 

This novel was written by Ms. Norton with no "collaborator" listed on the cover. I am very skeptical of Ms. Norton involvement with the many collaborations that were published very late in her life. I suspect that for the most part a contract writer was hired to expand upon a theme and characters from one of her series with just the permission to use her name. Therefore for this fan only those books attributed solely to "Andre Norton" are her true cannon of works and the others are very suspect indeed - read at your owe risk - buyers beware as they say.

  

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My dear friend Arrabella came for a visit and we had a night out on Prince's Avenue. It was a great night too - we got chatting to a couple who told us about a new venue that was open, and we went to check it out - and I ended up doing karaoke in there!

 

I sported a new look too - long sleeved dress with knee boots. I liked it a lot!

Built for the Brickset Forum Neo-Classic Space MOC Contest, judged by Peter Reid, in which it came second out of 95 entries :)

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