Pointeso Harbour: Service area Zone 3a.
A Pointeso mature student waits in limbo in the rain.
I’m sitting here at the motorway services contemplating where to travel to next. It’s a cold space. People walk by with the blankest of expressions. I left my flat about an hour ago for the last time. Pointeso has become a place where I feel more and more on the outside. This styrofoam coffee warms my hands.
OK, I accept that I may be making a big mistake leaving the city of opportunity – but I think I’m doing the right thing. I’m watching as a family stroll by. Mother with immaculate hair, make-up, pouting face…father sports casuale…kids artily dressed…cologne and perfume. That could’ve been me in a future life. I’m drained of the former enthusiasm I had to make it here.
I could drift around this service area for an eternity. I still feel that underlying emptiness here. I stand here and watch the beautiful students walk by and see myself thirty years junior.
Where to next? Well I’m gonna wait here for a bit longer. How about you? Perhaps you’d like to have a stroll along Pointeso Harbour. Zone 6b is rather nice this time of year.
Don’t let me keep you. Your coach is waiting. You’ll enjoy the Pointesian night skies. Why not try a meal at Gellozia restaurant? You’ll love it here. Let’s meet here again at the services in say twenty years time?
The Pointeso Biennale.
The Hessler Biennale stems from a project by the Traye Presele Collective, directed by Terry Plasover in 2009. Following the Indentine Biennale’s closure in 1995 the Biennale proceeded by an annual event from 1999– 2003 entitled ‘Mystified Nullification.’ This event gave rise to the Delta Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2004, which was inaugurated by Sporting City and the Corporation of Culture within the framework of decentralization, aiming to move the Sporting Biennale of Contemporary Art outside Delta since thier demise in 2006.
In 2010 the newly adopted Pointeso Biennale of Contemporary Art has been financed in equal parts by Sporting City and the Burlingo Associates.
The organisational model of the Pointeso Biennale of Contemporary Art is to create events of artistic self-renewal while also building a stable, long-term project, bonding with its host territory. For each edition the Artistic Director builds the event’s identity, choosing a curator or curatorial team to devise an artistic project in close collaboration. Each edition of the Pointeso Biennale of Contemporary Art provides the opportunity to explore a specific theme such as, history, Sporting globalization and temporality.
Curators have included amongst other: Harze Mint, Guy Flavour, Caroloza Collective, Marcuse Draken, Nicholas Barry and Fereden Chiroza andMoularz Crayville.
