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Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)

June 1 – June 22, 2022

Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice, June 2022. Organized by TBA21–Academy and supported by S+T+ARTS. Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice, June 2022. Organized by TBA21–Academy and supported by S+T+ARTS. Design by Lana Jerichová.

María Montero Sierra, Head of Program at TBA21–Academy and Curator of Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water). Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas in conversation with Gražina Subelytė, Ocean Space, 2022. Part of Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, the STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice. Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

Jol Thoms of Radio Amnion, Ocean Space, 2022. Part of Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, the STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice. Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

Frédérique Aït-Touati, Heather Ann Swanson, Sonia Levy, Meredith Root-Bernstein, and Markus Reymann in conversation. Part of Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, the STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice. Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

Becoming Fresh Salty Drops, STARTS showcase event at TBA21–Academy's Ocean Space, Venice, June 2022. Organized by TBA21–Academy and supported by S+T+ARTS. Photo by Enrico Fiorese.

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Programming

Academy Events

“Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)” is a month-long program celebrating the water and life forms of the Venice Lagoon, the largest coastal lagoon in the Mediterranean Sea, home to TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space. Stories, actions, and online and live events narrate and act upon the future of the Venice Lagoon from ecological and magical perspectives.

Following the moon cycles that control the tides, the program circles back, ending on the summer solstice with the final presentation of the STARTS4Water artists in residence program curated by María Montero Sierra, featuring Sonia Levy with Heather Ann Swanson, Meredith Root-Bernstein, and Alexandra Arènes; and Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas, and beginning with a wetland kinship project in conversation with curator Camila Marambio whose public program for “Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol,” the Chilean Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, activates a convening on World Peatlands Day. It is followed by an educational program for World Oceans Day; a walks program, “Venice as a model for the future?,” curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Pietro Consolandi; and TBA21–Academy’s program on the intersections of food and ecology led by Montero Sierra, Barbara Nardacchione, with Markus Reymann and Alice Ongaro Sartori in collaboration with chef Marco Bravetti and TOCIA!. This month-long program is aligned with the principles of regeneration and more-than-human rights promoted by the project Zoöp, which TBA21–Academy is a partner in.

With: pantea; Frédérique Aït-Touati; Camilla Bertolini; Isabelle Carbonell; Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas; Ifor Duncan and Heather Contant; Vera Dvale; Lodovica Guarnieri; Hans Joosten; Dianna Kopansky; Sonia Levy with Heather Ann Swanson, Meredith Root-Bernstein, and Alexandra Arènes; Radio Amnion; Reverend Houston Cypress, Bárbara Saavedra.

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SHOWCASE EVENTS

Tuesday, June 21, 8 pm – 12 am
Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)
Ocean Space

Talks, screening, and expeditions to celebrate the water and life forms of the Venice Lagoon and commemorate the conclusion of the S+T+ARTS residencies organized by TBA21–Academy that explored ecological and magical propositions for sustainable water management in the Venetian lagoon.

With Sonia Levy with Heather Ann Swanson, Meredith Root-Bernstein, Alexandra Arènes, and Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas. Special guest: Radio Amnion.

Wednesday and Thursday, June 1-2
The Venice Agreement: Protecting Global Peatlands Locally
Ocean Space, UNESCO, Ocean-Archive.org and Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol

Keynote speakers, performances, and closed workshops.
Curated by Camila Marambio. Co-organized by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Chile, Ensayos, the Greifswald Mire Center, and TBA21–Academy.

A global peatland covening in Venice, Italy will bring together international practitioners of conservation and restoration of our planet’s peatlands.

Thursday, June 2, 7–9 pm
Signing of The Venice Agreement
Ocean Space

Master of Ceremony Reverend Houston Cypress
Opening words by Diana Kopansky (Golbal Peatland Initiative). Keynote Speakers: Hans Joosten (Professor of Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology, Greifswald Mire Centre) and Bárbara Saavedra (ecologist, director of Wildlife Conservation Society Chile).

Scents, sounds and stories from the bog by Ensayos and music by Vera Dvale.

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RESEARCH

Thursday, June 9, 9 p.m.
Convivial Tables: The Pannier of the Lagoon.
TOXICITY with chef Marco Bravetti (TOCIA!), Camila Marambio
“Convivial Tables” is a series of closed events to provide a space to discuss the complex ties between what we eat and its ecological impact, with a particular focus on its effect on bodies of water.

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 8
STARTS Academy and Educational Day on Oceans Day
Ocean-Archive.org and Ocean Space

Presentations of the works developed by the high school and MA students involved in the various workshops run by the STARTS4Water artists in residence, Sonia Levy, Meredith Root-Bernstein, and Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas.

WALKS AND PERFORMANCES IN THE LAGOON

Wednesday, June 8
Lodovica Guarnieri:When I Breathe, I Swallow the Lagoon
Set in the amphibious Venetian lagoon along the infrastructure of the former ENI refinery in Porto Marghera, this performance walk highlights the interconnection between bodies, environments and power structures and rethinks responsibility in deep time. In Italian.

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Friday, June 10, 6 p.m.
Cohabiting Within Wetness: “Venice as a model for the future?”
4. The Return Of Venetian Flat Oysters: MAREA project with Camilla Bertolini

The project “Venice as a model for the future?” was initiated in 2020 and is curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Pietro Consolandi. “Cohabiting Within Wetness” is part of the three-year research cycle The Current III—“Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan),” led by Barbara Casavecchia.

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Organized by TBA21–Academy
Supported by S+T+ARTS.

Photo: Michael Strasser / TBA21, detail

The Venice Agreement: Protecting Global Peatlands Locally
is organized in partnership with:

Courtesy of the artist

The Venice Agreement was made possible through the generous support of:

Stiftung Zukunfts Jetzt!
Hartwig Behrendt Stiftung Zukunft
Global Peatlands Initiative led by UN Environment /www.globalpeatlands.org/

For more information, visit Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol.

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