Monday, August 10, 7pm, Serra dei Giardini, 1254, Castello, Venezia, VE 30122, Italy.

“Small Acts of Disobedience, (S.A.D) investigates the possibilities left when the margins for freedom seem to be thinning.” Chantal Pontbriand

Images: Short Cut Leuven, 2010, Stijn Van Dorpe. Presentation, August 10, Serra dei Giardini, Venezia. Italy by Sherry Dobbin

The 2015 Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum at la Biennale di Venezia took place within the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor. On opening night, August 10, at the Serra Dei Giardini, Sherry Dobbin, presented our ongoing collaborative project, Small Acts of Disobedience. S.A.D is an ever-growing archive which collects small, discreet, performative actions, and non actions, realized by artists and citizens from different communities, as a response to the inequities, absurdities and abuse of historical bye-laws, demands, constitutions and commands of government as they impact their specific local communities and spaces. Each action, places the body in a different public space; it is a form of local or personal empowerment, cultural disruption and a form of civil disobedience. It is a pedagogy of action. Since 2009, the annual Creative Time Summit has operated as a convening, a discussion, and a platform for the intersection of art and politics. The Venice Art Biennale offered a unique opportunity to gather an international, interdisciplinary community to consider how knowledge is produced and how it comes into contact with civil society. Writer and Curator Chantal Pontbriand has written about SMALL ACTS OF DISOBEDIENCE in an essay entitled To Obey or to Disobey. You can read the essay at www.portlandgreen.com/SAD => FIX