The Australian Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will house an artwork inspired by the democratic ideal — even as the world grapples with divisions.
The result, she says,"starts off in a western European tradition and 20th century avant-garde music, and then through the inflections that people from different backgrounds bring into it through their musical styles and traditions, it is transformed into this other, new sound. That's the experiment.""Polyphony is made up of individual voices or instruments that all have their own inherent sound, but when brought together can create a new music.
In a week that has given Australia the meme-ready political protest of eggboy, Assembly offers an altogether gentler political gesture. "This is a much more nuanced, poetic, more metaphorical response to a larger atmosphere — the need to come together," Engberg says. "It's about people reclaiming space for their own positions and thoughts ... it's about trying to return to a sense of democracy."
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