Lagoon Micro-ecologies.
Venice as a Model for the Future?
May 7 –
October 9, 2021
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Establishing the new cycle of The Current III with a first chapter of public walks, “Lagoon Micro-ecologies” is a continuation of itinerant conversations held in the series “Venice as a Model for the Future?” as part of the public program and the Ocean Fellowship program at Ocean Space in 2020.
Co-curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Pietro Consolandi, these walks move beyond the urban boundaries of the city of Venice, toward the islands of its lagoon. The participants are directing their steps and gazes to landscapes and seascapes created by the interaction between multiple species, not only human: from coastal sand dunes to humus layers in gardens, from sandbanks inhabited by salt-loving wild plants and birds to the seabed populated by water-filtering mollusks and tiny fish.
Scholar and anthropologist Anna Tsing invites us to rethink landscapes as “assemblages” of coexisting life forms that require “habits of noticing.” She reminds us that these landscapes are “open-ended gatherings. They allow us to ask about communal effects without assuming them. They show us potential histories in the making.”
Each walk is guided by a different Venetian voice, in order to expand our knowledge of local ecologies, give us the opportunity to connect or reconnect to them and widen our ways of being. The walking exercise is to be continued beyond the lagoon, along the coasts, and into imaginary oceans. We are written in water, perpetually changing and preserving. We run auditory fingertips along the coastal lines, listening in to ecotones alive with encoded information passing through as calls and responses. Our thoughts are running in currents. We shall meet again at the table of tides every other Friday.
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.
Please note the program is conducted in Italian.
Co-curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Pietro Consolandi, these walks move beyond the urban boundaries of the city of Venice, toward the islands of its lagoon. The participants are directing their steps and gazes to landscapes and seascapes created by the interaction between multiple species, not only human: from coastal sand dunes to humus layers in gardens, from sandbanks inhabited by salt-loving wild plants and birds to the seabed populated by water-filtering mollusks and tiny fish.
Scholar and anthropologist Anna Tsing invites us to rethink landscapes as “assemblages” of coexisting life forms that require “habits of noticing.” She reminds us that these landscapes are “open-ended gatherings. They allow us to ask about communal effects without assuming them. They show us potential histories in the making.”
Each walk is guided by a different Venetian voice, in order to expand our knowledge of local ecologies, give us the opportunity to connect or reconnect to them and widen our ways of being. The walking exercise is to be continued beyond the lagoon, along the coasts, and into imaginary oceans. We are written in water, perpetually changing and preserving. We run auditory fingertips along the coastal lines, listening in to ecotones alive with encoded information passing through as calls and responses. Our thoughts are running in currents. We shall meet again at the table of tides every other Friday.
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.
Please note the program is conducted in Italian.