The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. today (Thursday, 20th May 2021) launched Ireland’s Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. This year Ireland is represented by Annex, a multi-disciplinary research and design collective, comprised of a core team of architects, artists, and urbanists who are presenting an exhibition entitled Entanglement which addresses how our everyday lives have become increasingly entangled with data technologies.
The 2021 Irish Pavilion exhibition, Entanglement, at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, will explore the materiality of data, and the interwoven human, environmental and cultural impacts of communication technologies. The exhibition will highlight how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape, and examine Ireland’s place in the pan-national evolution of data infrastructure.
Launching the opening of the exhibition online, Minister Martin said:“I congratulate Annex on this innovative and cutting edge exhibition which I know has been delivered in particularly challenging circumstances. The Venice Biennale remains the world’s most important international platform for presenting and discussing architecture. Since 2000, the Irish pavilion has showcased the range and vigour of Ireland’s diverse architectural culture and this year Ireland’s creative talents have delivered a special project with global resonance which I know will have wide reaching impacts.”