Artist Wu Tsang dives into the depths of 'Moby Dick’' with three simultaneous shows about Melville’s 'flamboyant, queer' saga:
“I hope this whale stays here,” said the artist Wu Tsang on a recent afternoon in Venice. She pointed to a tiny marble whale that she had placed on the narrow stone walkway that divided the sea outside the Arsenale, whereWe sat in the open Mediterranean air to watch one of Tsang’s contributions to the event,projected onto a 57-foot-wide screen under the arches of the Gaggiandre, a secluded 16th-century shipping yard.
, which had its Venice premiere last Wednesday at Teatro Goldoni, following its U.S. premier at the Shed a week earlier, also looks at Melville’s Great American Novel, and it flips the vantage point once again.Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In,through the lens of colonialist greed and 1950s social hierarchy.
“The work has allowed us to collaboratively use the dancing and choreography that went into the creation of the movie but did not make it to the final cut,” Tsang said. Curator Cecilia Alemani’s focus on artworks concerned with humankind’s precarious relationship with nonhumans for this year’s Biennale provided Tsang the perfect context. “When Cecilia invited me to join the biennial in this particular space, I didn’t want to just put a movie on the screen,” the artist said. “I wanted to bring something special for such a special place and allow people to have their own contemplations about the whale.
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