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OcéanoFuturismos: Speculative fiction for ocean governance

Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM–CSIC), Barcelona

September 25 – September 25, 2025
Past
Programming
TBA21–Academy

Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025

September 21 – September 24, 2025
External
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Voices of Water: a Rights of Nature

Workshop at Tate Modern, London

September 6 – September 6, 2025
External
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Floating Cinema 2025

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

September 2 – September 2, 2025
Past
Programming

Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action: Contemporary Art Institutions as Agents for Ocean Sustainability

TBA21–Academy Artist Film Program

June 13 – June 13, 2025
NICE2025
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

POROUS — Ports as Interspecies Dwelling

Symposium & Live Program at Villa Arson - Nice, France

June 7 – June 8, 2025
NICE2025
Past
Programming
NICE2025

TBA21–Academy’s public program during the Venice Biennale of Architecture vernissage week

May 7 – May 11, 2025
Ocean Space Venice
Past
Programming
Ocean Space Venice

The Current IV: Caribbean

Convening #2

January 10 – January 11, 2025
TBA21–Academy
Research
Programming

Organismo | Year One

Public Program - Fall

October 25 – December 10, 2024
MNTB Madrid
Past
Programming
MNTB Madrid

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

April 17 – April 20, 2024
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Third Margin Deepest Spring

November 10 – November 12, 2023
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Convivial Tables:

Sapid Soil

May 6 – October 14, 2023
Past
TBA21–Academy
Research

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

May 19 – May 20, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Ocean Space Venice

An Ocean Without Shore

November 9 – November 12, 2022
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Becoming Riverine

Open Call
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)

June 1 – June 22, 2022
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

The Journeying Stream

June 3 – June 5, 2022
C3A Córdoba
Past
Programming
C3A Córdoba

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

April 19 – April 23, 2022
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

SUPERFLEX:

Vertical Migration

September 21 – September 24, 2021
Past
Commissions
TBA21–Academy

Sense to Act:

The Aquatic Observatory

May 23, 2020 – January 9, 2021
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

The Sea:

Sounds and Storytelling

October 2 – December 6, 2020
Digital
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Joan Jonas.

Moving Off the Land II

May 24 – September 29, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
Past
Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy

The Current II: Deep Sea Minding: A Desert In Pink

Convening #2 led by SUPERFLEX

March 9 – March 10, 2019
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Symposium:

Return to the Sea

July 4 – July 6, 2018
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

TBA21–Academy at Dhaka Art Summit

February 2 – February 4, 2018
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Fishing for Islands

October 27 – October 29, 2017
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Tidalectics Tidal Timings

bára, 2017 by Jana Winderen

June 2 – August 26, 2017
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Are We Human? Design of the Seabed

November 5 – November 6, 2016
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Sounds Too Many

Lecture performance by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

September 27, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Presencias de Organismo I Arte en ecologías críticas aplicadas

Programa de estudios independientes - Enero a junio 2024

MNTB Madrid
TBA21–Academy
Research
Programming

Territorial Agency.

Oceans in Transformation—Overfishing

May 11, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land

Performance

May 7, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Oceans in crisis in conjunction with Eco Visionaries

December 6, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies

Independent study program, Year Zero

MNTB Madrid
TBA21–Academy
Research
Programming

Tidalectics Reading #1

On mere men and mermaids

June 29, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Tidalectics Reading #2

Hope at Sea

July 27, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Open Ocean Space X COP23
November 10, 2017 | Kunstmuseum, Bonn
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Tidalectics Reading #3

Routes and Roots

October 4, 2017
TBA21–Academy
Programming

The Current I: The Distant Islands

Convening #2 led by Ute Meta Bauer & Cesar Garcia

Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

freq_wave: 7 seas

curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

The Underground Ocean Fellowship

June 15, 2022
TBA21–Academy
Residencies
Programming

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space
Past
TBA21–Academy
Programming

The Future of High Waters: Nature-Based and Geo-Engineering Solutions for the Venetian Lagoon

Networking Event
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Afterall Journal Launch

with Ute Meta Bauer and Michael Mel

May 12, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Ocean Space Venice

TBA21–Academy's Program at Floating Cinema

Unknown Waters

September 2, 2022
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Wu Tsang

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

TBA21–Academy
Programming
Commissions

Floating Cinema 2023

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

September 1, 2023
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Dive Expedition and TBA21–Academy Symposium
TBA21–Academy
Research

Olafur Eliasson in conversation with David Gruber

May 8, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Ocean Space Venice

Convivial Tables

The Cross Between Food and Ecology
TBA21–Academy
Research
Programming

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

The Name For World Is Tide

May 26, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Research

The Current II: Phenomenal Ocean. Featuring Ocean Archive

Convening #2 led by Chus Martínez

September 28, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
TBA21–Academy
Programming
Ocean Space Venice

The Current II: The Ocean is on Air

Convening led by Chus Martínez & Julieta Aranda

January 25, 2019
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Book launch – Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview Through Art and Science
Past
Programming

Deepwaters of Digital Oceans (DODO)

Digital
TBA21–Academy
Research
Programming

Floating Cinema 2024

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

September 6, 2023
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Joan Jonas – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes

May 31, 2018
TBA21–Academy
Programming

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Prelude

May 6, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Research

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Halophice-cream

June 8, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
Past
TBA21–Academy
Research