John in Venice for the Indianapolis Museum of Art's US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2017-08-08)
In June 2011 John was in Venice because the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where Sarah is a curator, commissioned the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Back in Venice in 2017, he recalled that he had been very sick on that visit.
About: Venice, Venice Biennale, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Sarah Urist Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-06 | told | John reports on his Venice trip for the IMA's US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: a party with Michael Stipe and a pavilion he calls a total success. | Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors 00:00:06 |
| 2017-08-08 (happened 2011-06) | retold | Watching gondolas from a bridge, John recalls his last visit to Venice just over six years ago: his video began 'I'm in Venice and I'm really sick', and he was very sick. → refers to The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? | What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:01 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — ask: John calls Gloria an amazing show and urges anyone in Venice to go and see it. — video description
- 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John went to a party with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, writer of 'Stand', to which John and Hank choreographed a dance in 1989 that their dad videotaped and lost. (playful) — 00:00:19
- 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John calls Allora & Calzadilla's pavilion (overturned tanks, Olympic athletes, an ATM that is also a pipe organ) a total success and is proud of everyone at the IMA. — 00:00:31
- 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John says this is the first time the Venice Biennale commission went to a museum not on either coast or the Art Institute of Chicago. — 00:00:46
- 2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John recalls cutting that visit short the next day to fly back to Amsterdam; his gallbladder turned out to need removing. — 00:02:12
- 2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John says that besides the physical illness his mental health was near an all-time low; in 2011 he hated the Piazza San Marco, its smell, tourists, pigeons and flying lions, and was sick and scared. — 00:02:15