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At the Venice Biennale, everyone’s lining up for the toilets

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By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN

Venice (CNN) — After a dramatic lead up to this year’s Venice Biennale, involving the tragic death of its chief curator, outcry over Russia, Israel and the United States’ participation, and a prize jury that abruptly quit, it was, in the end, a set of portable toilets that stole the show during the opening week of the “Olympics of the art world.”

The toilets were the doing of choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger – Austria’s representing artist who, together with curator Nora-Swantje Almes, staged the event’s most popular and brilliantly mucky pavilion show titled “Seaworld Venice,” which tackles themes of purity and impurity, actions and consequences and ecological catastrophe.

More than half a million people are expected to visit the monumental international art fair over the next six months to see the work of over 100 artists and 99 nations, spread across 31 permanent national pavilions and a series of other exhibition spaces.

In the preview days before the public opening on Saturday, hundreds of people lined up to enter the Austrian pavilion, a white cube structure that first opened in the Giardini della Biennale in 1934. Once inside, visitors were encouraged to urinate in two onsite toilets which filter and pump sanitized water back into a large aquarium tank where performers float for four hours at a time, breathing through a scuba mask. Off to the side was a room filled with spewing, brown wastewater. Inside the flooded pavilion was yet more water: in one pool, a naked woman rode a jet ski, in the other, a series of more unclothed women performers climbed and hung from a large rotating weathervane sculpture — suggesting a new direction (or a new world order?) was needed.

According to Almes, the show asks viewers to rethink the patriarchal systems “that currently control our lives.”

An anticlimax

Meanwhile there were no queues to enter the US and Russian pavilions and the Israeli building stood locked and empty (a smaller satellite show was staged outside the main Giardini instead). Russia was banned from the Biennale in 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine, but was allowed back by organizers this year. The decision was met with significant backlash including condemnation from the European Commission, which threatened to pull a $2 million funding grant for the Biennale if it did not reverse the decision by May 11.

During the pavilion’s preview, a brief but loud protest led by Russian dissident disruptors Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN might have been the most exciting thing to happen at the underwhelming and carelessly presented group show of live performance and video art.

While President Donald Trump has a strong command of the attention economy, his national pavilion — featuring the sculptures of Alma Allen — did not appear to draw crowds during the preview days. The pavilion and its organizers had attracted some criticism for their chaotic handling of the artist selection process. But once open, all was quiet within a hollow space that has historically shown the work of some of America’s greatest artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns and, more recently, Simone Leigh. Leigh triumphed at the 2022 Biennale when she was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion prize after becoming the first Black woman to represent the United States.

For all the hullabaloo, some of the most provocative pavilions were also the most lackluster, inadvertently making way for exhibitions elsewhere to shine.

Beyond the Giardini

While the Giardini and nea

Russia holds scaled-down Victory Day parade as temporary ceasefire takes effect

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By Zahra Ullah, CNN

Moscow (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun presiding over a pared-back Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, after a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect.

Russia’s annual May 9 parade commemorates the Soviet Union’s victory over Germany in World War II. Under Putin, it has come to symbolize the country’s military strength.

However, in a marked departure this year, Russian authorities announced there would be no display of heavy military hardware – forgoing the traditional show of force in favor of security.

The parade takes place amid intensified Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory, particularly against oil refineries, as the Ukrainian government accuses the Kremlin of continuing attacks on Kyiv and beyond.

On Friday, on the eve of the parade, US President Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire from May 9 to 11, which will include a halt to fighting and a large-scale prisoner exchange. The news was confirmed by both the Kremlin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the latter saying the prisoner exchange would be “in the format of 1,000 for 1,000.”

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said the parade will feature a flyover by fighter planes, and soldiers will march on Red Square, in front of Lenin’s mausoleum.

Around 27 million people in the Soviet Union died during WWII, more than in any other country.

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CIF-SS Boys Tennis second round playoff results

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DP and San Marcos advance to quarterfinals

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -

Division 3:

Oaks Christian 11, Camarillo 7

Webb 11, Cate 7

Division 4:

Dos Pueblos 16, St. Francis 2: DP at Cerritos in quarterfinal on Monday

Division 5:

San Marcos 12, Temple City 6: San Marcos is at Golden Valley in quarterfinal on Monday.

Division 6:

Thacher 13, Hillcrest 5: Thacher hosts El Torro in quarterfinal on Monday.

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El mundo envía su moda rápida a esta ciudad india. Sus residentes pagan un precio

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Por Ayushi Shah, Hanako Montgomery y Sanjiv Talreja, CNN

Dentro de la polvorienta y poco iluminada planta de reciclaje de algodón, Rajesh se encuentra junto a una máquina trituradora, introduciendo tela blanca en las afiladas cuchillas.

Se trata de restos de ropa desechada en Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Japón y otros lugares, que llegan a la ciudad de Panipat, en el norte de India, en camiones cargados hasta desbordarse en montones sueltos y rebosantes.

Dentro de los almacenes, las prendas se apilan hasta el techo. En una de las naves, se les quitan las cremalleras y los botones a las prendas desechadas. En otra, las fibras se hilan, se tiñen, se blanquean y se vuelven a tejer para confeccionar alfombras, tapetes y mantas.

Los trabajadores se mueven con rapidez dentro de las unidades, clasificando los retales por color y tipo de tejido, alimentando un sistema diseñado para seguir el ritmo del consumo global.

Algunas prendas aún conservan las etiquetas de precio de las tiendas benéficas. Otras parece que se han usado poco.

Panipat es un centro neurálgico de la moda rápida, la tendencia actual que lleva a la gente a comprar más ropa pero usarla durante menos tiempo. Por lo general, estas prendas no están diseñadas para durar, y más de un millón de toneladas acaban aquí cada año para ser recicladas.

Sobre el papel, parece una solución circular al problema de los residuos de la moda rápida. Pero en realidad, cada paso conlleva un coste devastador para los habitantes de la ciudad y su medio ambiente.

Finas capas de algodón se adhieren a la barba incipiente de un veterano trabajador textil y se acumulan en los pliegues de su rostro.

Lo que es aún más peligroso, diminutas partículas de fibra penetran en su garganta y pulmones. “Toso constantemente, todo el día, y me falta el aire”, afirma el trabajador, a quien CNN llama Rajesh para proteger su empleo.

Rajesh lleva décadas respirando este aire y tiene una tos seca y persistente. Aun así, no le queda más remedio que seguir adelante.

La industria genera cientos de miles de empleos en Panipat y sus alrededores, atrayendo a migrantes como él de regiones más pobres que dependen de estos ingresos modestos pero estables.

Los productos químicos utilizados en la producción textil representan un riesgo para la salud de los trabajadores que inhalan las fibras. Cuando CNN visitó tres plantas de reciclaje de ropa a principios de febrero, ninguno de los trabajadores llevaba mascarilla ni ningún otro tipo de ropa de protección.

Pero los riesgos en la industria textil de Panipat no terminan aquí.

Reeta Devi trabaja en una planta de reciclaje de ropa para mantener a su marido, que no ha podido trabajar desde que se lesionó la pierna con una máquina en la misma industria el pasado agosto. “Tengo que trabajar”, dice. “Tengo tres hijos”.

Panipat, conocida como la “ciudad textil” de la India, se ubica justo al norte de Delhi y su industria depende en gran medida del trabajo informal. La mayoría de los trabajadores aquí carecen de seguro médico o prestaciones formales.

Si enferman o se lesionan, pierden sus ingresos y reciben poco o ningún apoyo de sus empleadores.

El trabajo de Reeta conlleva su propia presión. “Cuando hay mucho polvo, cuesta respirar”, cuenta.

Algunos trabajadores, como Reeta, aceptan los riesgos del trabajo porque hay muy pocas opciones laborales en la ciudad. “Este tipo de trabajo siempre trae problemas”, afirma.

A pocos kilómetros de distancia, otro extrabajador textil, Sanagar Alam, comparte una opinión similar.

Solía ​​trabajar en una planta de teñido y señala los forúnculos en su cuello que, según él, fueron causados ​​por productos químicos que le cayeron sobre la piel. “Cuando trabajamos con productos químicos, se desprende vapor”, explica a CNN.

Los trabajadores cubren sus propios gastos

UCSB Softball stays alive at Big West Championship by winning 2 elimination games

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UCSB celebrates Waddell after a home run

FULLERTON, Calif. (KEYT) - Refuse to lose! UCSB beat Long Beach State 13-10 and right afterwards defeated Hawai'i 8-6 to advance to the final day at the Big West Championship.

The #3 Gauchos will have to beat host and top-seed Cal State Fullerton twice on Saturday to win the tournament for a second straight year and advance to the NCAA Tournament. First pitch is 1 p.m.

UCSB 13, Long Beach State 10: Ainsley Waddell hit a 3-run home run and drove in 5 runs as the Gauchos eliminated LBSU. UCSB scored 7 first inning runs.

UCSB 8, Hawai'i 6: Bella Fuentes belted a 3-run homer to snap a 3-3 tie in the 3rd inning as the Gauchos avenged an earlier 2-0 tournament loss to the Rainbow Wahine.

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