Matter of Sounds. Selected by Ilari Valbonesi. Playlist: Giusto Pio, Ananta da "Motore immobile" 1978; Luciano Cilio, Interludio Da "Dialoghi Del Presente"; Prima Materia, The Tail of the Tiger 1977; Lucio Battisti, Il Fuoco da Umanamente uomo: il sogno 1972.

Mary Sibande, born 1982, lives and works in Johannesburg. In Sibande’s practice as an artist, she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context, but also attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women in our society. The body, for Sibande, and particularly the skin, and clothing is the site where history is contested and where fantasies play out. Centrally, she looks at the generational disempowerment of the black woman and in this sense her work is informed by postcolonial theory, through her art making. In her work, the domestic setting acts as a stage where historical psycho-dramas play out. Sibande's work also highlights how privileged ideals of beauty and femininity aspired to by black women discipline their body through rituals of imitation and reproduction. She inverts the social power indexed by Victorian costumes by reconfiguring it as a domestic worker’s “uniform” complexifying the colonial relationship between “slave” and “master” in a post-apartheid context. The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in South Africa and by applying it to Victorian dress she attempts to make a comment about history of servitude as it relates to the present in terms of domestic relationships.

Rastko Lazic, "This Room is Too Small" - a collection of live improvisation pieces recorded in 2009-2010, Free Digital Download (Geneva, 06-2010) - Playlist: 01. Honey 00:59 02. Second March 02:33 03. In Time 07:06 04. Cry 04:07 05. First part 1 05:57 06. Please Do Not 04:30 07. Nothing part 2 02:59 08. Nothing part 1 02:32 09. Hi Rob 05:48 10. First December 04:02 11. First part 2 08:26 12. Lag 03:16 13. Live Radio Hijacking 03:27 14. Four Pieces For Electronics 03:43 15. Sleep S. Sleep 03:36 15 pieces of live improvisations on an analogue modular synthesizer with very little post editing. Recorded during the year 2009 and 2010. Please visit my site for more info and music. www.rastko.info

Interview with Lethole Mokoena, commissioner of " Desire: Ideal Narratives in Contemporary South African Art" at 54th edition of International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia; Artisti: Mary Sibande, Siemon Allen, Lyndi Sales; Curator:Thembinkosi Goniwe - Pavilion at . Venezia,Torre di Porta Nuova, Arsenale Nuovissimo

Cushman and Johannes Milms |soya-muzik.com and Bootlab.org | prepared a special episode on German Pavilion for Sounds like Venice: a one voice, multiple character radio play on Christoph Schlingensief's participation on the Venice Biennale in 2011. Biographical data and short descriptions of Schlingensief's works are combined with fake artistic suggestions, with comments, historical data, poems, field recordings and sounds of various kinds. The air of this intense radio play ranges between high culture trash, easy peasy fun and serious contemporary sound art and literature

30 Days of Running in the Place. Honoring Ahmed Basiony (1978–2011). Egiptian Pavilion this year is a tribute to Ahmed Basiony, who was killed in Tahrir Square during the protests in Cairo in early 2011. Interview with Dr. Ashraf Reda, Chairman of Fine Arts Sector at the Ministry of Culture

Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode… Indian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Interview with Gigi Scaria (painter, sculptor, video artist; born in Kothanalloor, Kerala, 1973; now lives in New Delhi)

Sounds Like Venice / Global Sounds - a selection of audio works around the world. The first podcasts collects works selected by AUROPOLIS – Association of Multimedia Artists from Belgrade. 1. Kralj Čačka, Kolega Nenad Marić, better knows as Kralj Čačka is song writer and instrumentalist, academically educated painter and a poet. This piece is part of NRBG live session, took place some time in winter 2010. 2. Toma Gouband, Callioux Toma Gouband, drumist, improviser, searcher of - sounds, links between sounds, rythms' forms and rythms between rythms- plays with drums, stones, branches, some "boom" & some "tchak", a cymbow, futher dusters, bells, winds and, browsing -times, silences, densities- articulates a space sometimes agitated, sometimes still, till matters and airs meet & sing.

Boris Groys, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA, curator of The Russian Pavilion 2011. Curator of several exhibitions, including: “Dream Factory Communism”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M. (2004); “Total Enlightenment. Conceptual Art in Moscow (1960–1990)”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M./Fondacion March, Madrid (2008-2009); “Medium Religion” (with Peter Weibel) at the ZKM, Karlsruhe (2009). Recent publications: The Russian Pavilion hosts an attempt to view CA’s actions retrospectively as life in art with an installation by A.Monastyrski “11” built on references to the historical and topological contexts and based on materials of CA’s 125 actions and compiled 10 volumes (work on the 11P thP is in progress) of the Trips out of Town books. Check the YOUTUBE

Sigalit Landau was born in 1969 in Jerusalem. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the Gallery Kamel Mennour, Paris, at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as well as the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and is at the moment presented as part of the Centre Pompidou's collections in the collective exhibition elles@centrepompidou. Based on Landau's historical research, the launching point for the new installation is the small three-tiered Israeli Pavilion building in which her exhibit will dwell – a structure designed in the modernist style. For her show, the building's entrance will be relocated to the courtyard – a space originally meant to be kept away from public view. "My work is of a bridge maker. [Un]consciously looking for new and vital materials to connect the past to the future, the west to the east, the private with the collective, the sub-existential to the Uber-profound, the found objects to the deepest epic narratives and mythologies… using scattered, broken words to define "the-bricker-brack" and transform it into a soft heap of new dream-buds, to act upon the uncertain horizon"