Thanks for the smack in the face Venice! A progressive, radically feminist, fiercely sexual, challenging and funny biennale, unsettling the status quo... personal highlights: a room full of strangers and five Kazak artists singing to me that I am a genius; watching a man dry hump a tree in a church; feeling fleetingly proud to be Brit-ish(TrueMendous, LadySanity and Sonia Boyce). My less personal, still subjective (but well-informed) highlights are up now @britishvogue online. ~ artwork images ~ Miriam Cahn (International Exhibition, Giardini); Sister Gertrude Morgan (International Exhibition at Arsenale); Melanie Bonajo @melanie_bonajo (Dutch Pavilion, Chiesetta Della Misericordia); Kazakhstan Pavilion, @rustem_begenov Centre for New Genius at Spazio Arco; Stan Douglas, at Maggazzino del Sale; Sonia Boyce @soniaboyceartist at British Pavilion; Marlene Dumas at Palazzo Grassi @palazzo_grassi