This episode of Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations features the artist and STARTS resident Sonia Levy in conversation with Erika Balsom, a London-based scholar and critic working on cinema, art, and their intersection. During their STARTS residency, Sonia Levy and her collaborators, environmental anthropologist Heather Swanson, ecologist Meredith Root Bernstein, and landscape architect Alexandra Arènes, looked at the Venetian Lagoon through the lens of nature-based solutions to mitigate flood risks. What issues arise from Venice’s long history of taming its waterscape? With a shared commitment to noticing more-than-human worlds, the group strived to forge their own understanding of the controversies arising from the lagoon’s water management.
In Sonia’s eyes, lagoons are fascinating places to think about the meeting of different bodies of water - fresh and saltwater. Filming underwater became a way to get to know the ephemeral world of the lagoon and its processes of transformation in the hope that this submerged perspective might also bring about speculative approaches to policy change.
Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations is produced by TBA21–Academy with the support of STARTS, an initiative by the European Commission.
Special thanks to our guests: Erika Balsom and Sonia Levy.
Editor at large: María Montero Sierra
Sound edited by: Elena Zieser
Introduction and credits voice-over: Nathan Johnson
Music by horizonsnd
Underwater sound recordings of the Venetian Lagoon by Sonia Levy and Jez Riley French
Produced by: Miriam Calabrese, María Montero Sierra, Katarina Rakušček, and the artists.
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This episode of Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations features the artist and STARTS resident Sonia Levy in conversation with Erika Balsom, a London-based scholar and critic working on cinema, art, and their intersection. During their STARTS residency, Sonia Levy and her collaborators, environmental anthropologist Heather Swanson, ecologist Meredith Root Bernstein, and landscape architect Alexandra Arènes, looked at the Venetian Lagoon through the lens of nature-based solutions to mitigate flood risks. What issues arise from Venice’s long history of taming its waterscape? With a shared commitment to noticing more-than-human worlds, the group strived to forge their own understanding of the controversies arising from the lagoon’s water management.
In Sonia’s eyes, lagoons are fascinating places to think about the meeting of different bodies of water - fresh and saltwater. Filming underwater became a way to get to know the ephemeral world of the lagoon and its processes of transformation in the hope that this submerged perspective might also bring about speculative approaches to policy change.
Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations is produced by TBA21–Academy with the support of STARTS, an initiative by the European Commission.
Special thanks to our guests: Erika Balsom and Sonia Levy.
Editor at large: María Montero Sierra
Sound edited by: Elena Zieser
Introduction and credits voice-over: Nathan Johnson
Music by horizonsnd
Underwater sound recordings of the Venetian Lagoon by Sonia Levy and Jez Riley French
Produced by: Miriam Calabrese, María Montero Sierra, Katarina Rakušček, and the artists.
Hear more episodes at ocean-archive.org or subscribe with your podcast provider.
2.5 Nowtilus: Arrivi e Partenze. Piccola mappa di migrazioni, esodi e desideri
TBA21–Academy Radio
47 minutes 41 seconds
3 years ago
2.5 Nowtilus: Arrivi e Partenze. Piccola mappa di migrazioni, esodi e desideri
IT.
“Arrivi e partenze. Piccola mappa di migrazioni, esodi e desideri” - il quinto episodio di questa stagione di “Nowtilus” si immerge nelle dinamiche delle migrazioni sociali, storiche e contemporanee, a Venezia, sfatando alcuni luoghi comuni su tempi, modi e cause dello spopolamento della città.
In compagnia di Federico Barbierato, professore di Storia Moderna all’Università di Verona, conosciamo le correnti di popoli che intersecavano e arricchivano la Serenissima nell’epoca moderna, scoprendo un concetto di straniero del tutto diverso da ciò che ci aspetteremmo. Insieme a Clara Zanardi, antropologa, scopriamo le dinamiche dell’esodo e del turismo nella seconda metà del XX secolo, svelando sistemi di “bonifica umana” incoraggiati dalle classi dirigenti e la cui analisi pone inediti punti di vista sull’annosa questione dello spopolamento della città. Una città che vive ogni giorno la contraddizione tra continui arrivi, anche se provvisori, e svuotamento della popolazione residente, ma che in passato ha conquistato la sua “serenissima” stabilità economica, sociale e culturale proprio grazie a una mescolanza accogliente e cosmopolita. Conversazioni, quelle con Barbierato e Zanardi, che rinnovano in modo stimolante la riflessione su una sostenibilità che prima ancora di essere ecologica, deve essere umana e sociale.
L'episodio è disponibile solo in italiano su Ocean-Archive.org e su TBA21–Academy Radio su SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts e Google Podcasts.
"Nowtilus. Storie da una laguna urbana del 21esimo secolo" è un podcast realizzato da Ocean Space, Venezia, per TBA21–Academy Radio. Musiche di Enrico Coniglio.
ENG.
“Arrivals and departures. A little map of migration, exodus, and desire” is the title of the fifth episode of this season of “Nowtilus”, which plunges into the dynamics of the social, historical and contemporary migration in Venice, debunking some myths about the times, means, and causes of depopulation in the city.
In the company of Federico Barbierato, professor of Modern History at the University of Verona, we’ll find out about the flow of people that crossed through and enriched the Serenissima in the modern era, while discovering a very different understanding of what it means to be a foreigner. Together with the anthropologist Clara Zanardi we’ll discover the dynamics of mass migration and tourism in the second half of the twentieth century, revealing the systems of “human reclamation” encouraged by the ruling classes, and whose analysis offers unprecedented points of view on the age-old question about the depopulation of city. Venice is a city that embodies a contradiction between the continuous arrivals, even if only temporary, and the ever diminishing resident population, but it is also a place that in the past achieved “serenity” in terms of economic, social, and cultural stability thanks to a welcoming, cosmopolitan, and diverse demographic. These conversations with Barbierato and Zanardi represent a refreshing reflection on a type of sustainability that aside from being ecological, must also be both human and social.
The episode is available only in Italian on http://Ocean-Archive.org and on TBA21–Academy Radio on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
“Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century” is a podcast produced by Ocean Space, Venice, for TBA21–Academy Radio. Music by Enrico Coniglio.
TBA21–Academy Radio
This episode of Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations features the artist and STARTS resident Sonia Levy in conversation with Erika Balsom, a London-based scholar and critic working on cinema, art, and their intersection. During their STARTS residency, Sonia Levy and her collaborators, environmental anthropologist Heather Swanson, ecologist Meredith Root Bernstein, and landscape architect Alexandra Arènes, looked at the Venetian Lagoon through the lens of nature-based solutions to mitigate flood risks. What issues arise from Venice’s long history of taming its waterscape? With a shared commitment to noticing more-than-human worlds, the group strived to forge their own understanding of the controversies arising from the lagoon’s water management.
In Sonia’s eyes, lagoons are fascinating places to think about the meeting of different bodies of water - fresh and saltwater. Filming underwater became a way to get to know the ephemeral world of the lagoon and its processes of transformation in the hope that this submerged perspective might also bring about speculative approaches to policy change.
Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations is produced by TBA21–Academy with the support of STARTS, an initiative by the European Commission.
Special thanks to our guests: Erika Balsom and Sonia Levy.
Editor at large: María Montero Sierra
Sound edited by: Elena Zieser
Introduction and credits voice-over: Nathan Johnson
Music by horizonsnd
Underwater sound recordings of the Venetian Lagoon by Sonia Levy and Jez Riley French
Produced by: Miriam Calabrese, María Montero Sierra, Katarina Rakušček, and the artists.
Hear more episodes at ocean-archive.org or subscribe with your podcast provider.
