VENICE.- The Luxembourg Pavilion, titled A Comparative Dialogue Act, will publish a vinyl record to mark the end of the 60th Venice Biennale, capturing the essence of the sonic interventions which have unfolded within the pavilion space over the last six months. The pavilion is a collaboration between Luxembourgish-Italian artist Andrea Mancini and multidisciplinary collective Every Island and was conceived as an infrastructure for the transmission of sound. The vinyl will be launched with a listening session at Studio Giardini on November 22.

Throughout the duration of the Biennale, the pavilion hosted four guest artists who produced and presented new sound performances: Selin Davasse, Célin Jiang, Stina Fors, and Bella Báguena. Starting with a shared sound library that was expanded through each residency, the artists manipulated and combined the inherited body of sounds as they wished while incorporating new and live material, challenging notions of authorship and appropriation. Although the artists never physically crossed paths, their explorations intersected in a cyclically unfolding process of synthesis through interference, understanding and trust. By using the same pavilion space as a tool for music production in diverse ways, a dialogue was established during each residency between the artist present, those who came before and those to come.

The vinyl record has been conceived to capture the essence of what unfolded: an ongoing dialogue between the four guest artists. Each artist contributed one out of four voices within the composition, always in conversation with one another. The content consists of either sample material drawn from their shared sound library, which acted as a collaborative tool, or live recordings from their residency within the space. The sounds are primarily vocal or sonic imprints of their presence.

Rather than following a narrative structure, the record embodies a process with no clear beginning or end. It reflects the continuous interactions between the artists, capturing both moments of cacophony, where four distinct sonic languages collide, and moments of alignment, where sounds converge. The emphasis is on the dynamics of collaboration, with individual authorship dissolving into new collective sonic shapes.

The vinyl record will be released to coincide with the finissage of the Biennale and is published by Lenz Press and Mudam Luxembourg.