Venice Confidential: Off the Record

Preview: 20, 21, 22 April 2022

Continuing in Folkestone and London through 2022 & 2023

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Beginning at Venice Biennale in April 2022, join AICA UK’s President Sacha Craddock and art historian critic and curator Jean Wainwright and the Venice Agendas team for Venice Confidential: Off the Record they capture signature images and curate series of in-situ conversations and dialogue that explores and expands through discussion the way that the international art world might see the future of art and how it can respond to the global rhetoric and events.

Discussions and interviews will be published daily during 20, 21, 22 April 2022 and subsequently throughout 2022 and 2023 at events in Folkestone and London to the Venice Agendas website, Vimeo, Radio, YouTube and other social media channels. Artists and the visual arts community are encouraged reflect, contribute, and comment on the content as well as get in touch with the Venice Agendas team to get involved.

Venice Agendas 2022 is a workinprogress project supported by DACS and the International Association of Art Critics. In Collaboration with DACS and AICA UK

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Venice Agendas creates a critical international platform for debate, commissions and exhibitions. The project has featured at every Venice Biennial since 1999. Since 2011, workinprogress, a UK arts organisation headed by Clare Fitzpatrick and Terry Smith with Mark Segal and with the team of Jean Wainwright and Sacha Craddock have continued the series of topical, intelligent and informative discussions, talks, debates, events and artist commissions.

Dr Jean Wainwright has been interviewing artists at the Venice Biennale since 1999. Her association with Venice Agendas began also began in 1999. She is an art historian, critic and curator living in London. She is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art and Photography at the University for the Creative Arts. Her Audio Art Archive (begun in 1996) is continuing and to date she has interviewed over a 2,000 international artists, makers, photographers, filmmakers and curators, 177 of her published interviews conducted for Audio Arts went online at the Tate in 2014. She has published numerous essays and chapters in books as well as publishing monographs. Her writing is linked to primary source interviews. She has curated a number of international exhibitions and been a consultant and appeared on TV and radio programmes. She is a associate Art Historian and curator at Future\City https://www.futurecity.co.uk/about.