Walter Phillips partners win at Venice Biennale

June 12, 2001
Source: The Banff Centre
Original story - link verified on June 12, 2001

Canadian Commissioner Wayne Baerwaldt and Plug In Gallery (Winnipeg) together with contributing partner the Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff) are pleased to announce that Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have been awarded two major prizes at the 49th Venice Biennale. Cardiff and Miller were awarded "La Biennale di Venezia Special Award" for their work The Paradise Institute. The Prize was bestowed for "involving the audience in a new cinematic experience where fiction and reality, technology and the body converge into multiple and shifting journeys through space and time." This is the first time Canadian artists have received this honor at Venice. The international jury included Ery Camara (Senegal/Mexico City), Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (New York/Rome), Manray Hsu (Taipei), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich/Paris), and Virginia Perez-Patton (San José, Costa Rica)

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