Luxembourg Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale

A Comparative Dialogue Act, a project by the Luxembourgish artist Andrea Mancini and the multidisciplinary collective Every Island has been conceived as an infrastructure for the transmission of sound – a shared production space challenging the entrenched notion of individual artistic authorship.

Throughout the duration of the Biennale, the pavilion is hosting four guest artists who will produce and present new sound performances, thereby expanding the definition of a collective artwork. In this context, the notion of openness is not bound to the absence of limits, but rather to the appropriation of ‘the other’ and its contribution to collective and openended scenarios. Sound and space are tuned: the spatial elements – floor and walls – are turned into sound devices, progressively shaping an immersive experience. Technology is used to develop this localised experiment through which artists and audience consider the conditions under which knowledge is transmitted and shared. The title, A Comparative Dialogue Act, encapsulates the nature of this experimental project – an exploration of diverse sonic languages and a contemplation of dialogue, into the immersive world of sound as a tool for negotiation. The pavilion is at once the space where the soundscape is produced, and where it is played – the studio and the stage – in a gesture of radical transparency.