摘要：In the following statement, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Michael Corris lay out the intentions of their project for the Dallas Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.By contrast with the national pavilions for which the Biennale is renowned, this pavilion represented a city, and was published in the form of a book rather than temporarily staged on the interior of a building.Available to visitors from a stall placed just outside the American pavilion in the Giardini (and now available here as well , by permission of the publishers – see Joseph-Lester and Corris – The Dallas Pavilion ), this little book is a curated selection of works and texts, intervening within the Biennale’s official structure of curated national pavilions.It colourfully surveys the expansive art world of Dallas’ artists, critics, curators, collectors, galleries, museums and educators, while raising questions about contemporary urban identity vis-à-vis an aging architectural apparatus such as Venice’s international art exposition.
关键词：pavilion; Dallas; city; identity; Venice Biennale; collaboration; contemporary art
