Callum Morton - Australia's representative at the 2007 Venice Biennale - created a work titled
Valhalla - A monumental 'war zone-style model of his old family home'. The references to architecture are, of course obvious. More interesting however, is the way in which the structure/installation sits within the Biennale complex of pavilions and century old Venetian buildings.
How do we experience architecture in relation to art and society?
How does architecture reflect current social views? Art as architecture?
Can architecture provide society with a framework for life - a social counterpoint - an anchor in the true modernist sense. In this case Morton's installation 'Valhalla' appears battle weary, scarred, uninhabitable... The work is in many ways dystopian... showing the failure of previous and perhaps current social regimes.
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