In a cavernous 16th-century Venetian salt warehouse, a performer from London pauses her rap as a colleague from Cairo responds, their alternating calls for freedom ricocheting around historic walls. What could this have to do with that infamous day in 2011 when Vancouver fans rioted as the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup?
The 59th edition of the Biennale, that international exhibition sometimes known as the Olympics of the visual arts, was supposed to be held in 2021, the 10th anniversary of the events to which Douglas refers. It was the year not only of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, but also of the London riots initially triggered by a police shooting, and the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver.
Both this video installation and the photography mark historic firsts for Canada in Venice. Although Douglas, a Vancouver artist with an increasingly important international reputation, has participated in several group shows at the exhibition, it’s the first time he has represented Canada – and he is the first Black artist to do so.
In New York, police kettle protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge; in Tunis, small groups begin to gather on the dramatically lit The European art mavens who flock to Venice might puzzle over the idea that a Canadian hockey riot ranks up there with the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. Douglas, on the other hand, sees the same phenomenon in both: a desire for change that fails because it can’t propose a clear alternative.
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