INVISIBILE – Gita #3

A barchino journey in collaboration with Fie a Manetta through and beyond the scenery of Venice. We will be guided by the invisible natural agents that sustain Venice as we know it: spores, molds, fungi, and non-human actors that reveal an essential form of labor often invisible to our eyes. 

We will continue by talking about schisce — workers’ packed meals — and the places where they are eaten, revealing human and more-than-human geographies that appear on no map. We will share thoughts and words in the making, toward an outcome that will remain unknown until September 19 in Campo San Lorenzo.

Niccolò Moronato is a visual artist, researcher and translator. Since 2022 they have worked with the fishing community of Chioggia through Bogiaisso, the collective SONAI and Trattoria Guaiana.

Alice Jasmine Crippa is a cultural researcher, co-founder and experience director of Bogiaisso. Since 2023 they have worked with the community of fishers, artisans and hands-on practitioners in Chioggia, curating and co-creating community artistic productions.

Kayla Archer (Barbados) is a writer and researcher based in Mexico City. She is drawn to what Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite described as "the submarine unity" of the Caribbean-Latin American region. Together with seven oceanic citizens (Barbados, UK, USA, Germany, Turkey, Italy) she founded Orchestras of AWEdacity, a poetry and performance collective that since 2024 has developed a collective writing methodology inspired by Caribbean Calypso. Each member writes through a sobriquet — an alter ego of the deep that defines their political commitment to the fluid, supranational territory of the ocean.

Fie a Manetta is the first motor-boat school run by women and open to everyone. Theory and practical courses to learn how to navigate the lagoon and Venice's canals, sustainable navigation and slow barchino.