Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

The Name For World Is Tide

May 26, 2023

Ocean Space Venice

TBA21–Academy

Research

Programming

"Sapid Soil" is the second edition of Convivial Tables, TBA21–Academy’s active research program dedicated to the ties between food and ecology and the way these affect bodies of water.​

Curated by Gaia Ginevra Giorgi with The Tidal Garden, "The Name For World Is Tide" is a performance that interrogates the politics of care for worlds deemed infertile. Through radical imaginative exercises, the walk leads the audience across alien farmlands that prelude to potential yet real worlds. There the emerged land is a specter of the sea; a ubiquitous salinity confuses genealogies, and the future and the past blur into a continuous now. 

The ingestion of a fantastical Algarium as a closure of the performance invites a reflection on digestion as a geographic and conservation practice where amphibious landscapes and kinship re-emerge, persist and redistribute. 

PROGRAM

"The Name For World Is Tide" is part of Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil, the public program curated by The Tidal Garden. It forms part of the strand of activities that contextualizes the culinary events in broader chapters on conservation and its policies. Developed by The Tidal Garden with artists and academics, these events build on the entanglements between humans and Lagoon plants to explore paradigms of care rooted in more-than-human perspectives. 

CONVIVIAL TABLES

“Sapid Soil” is curated by the research agency The Tidal Garden and takes place at Ocean Space, Venice, from May to October 2023 as part of Convivial Tables, TBA21–Academy’s active research program dedicated to the ties between food and ecology and the way these affect bodies of water, led by María Montero Sierra and Barbara Nardacchione with Markus Reymann. This research 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.
 

GAIA GINEVRA GIORGI

Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is a poet, sound artist, dramaturg and performer. An artist and researcher transversally active in the field of performing arts, she develops practices and methodologies of investigation for an affective and political rewriting of the landscape (urban and otherwise). Through sound explorations and site-specific participatory devices, her interventions produce ephemeral habitats, spaces of embodied and radical imagination.

 

THE TIDAL GARDEN

The Tidal Garden is a Venice-based research and spatial agency founded in 2020 that explores the edible potential of halophytes as a tool for cultural adaptation to climate change. Led by Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun (chef/artist), Filippo Grassi (scientist/researcher), and Lodovica Guarnieri (designer/curator) in collaboration with a network of farmers, chefs and researchers, the project supports the emergence of new eating habits as means of conservation of the Lagoon’s landscape in times of rising sea levels.

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