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.
2.6 Nowtilus: Contro/Correnti. Grandi navi, rampe da skate e attivismo rinnovato
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55 minutes 34 seconds
3 years ago
2.6 Nowtilus: Contro/Correnti. Grandi navi, rampe da skate e attivismo rinnovato
IT.
“Contro/correnti. Grandi navi, rampe da skate e attivismo rinnovato" con Marco Baravalle (S.a.L.E. Docks, Comitato No Grandi Navi - Laguna Bene Comune), Francesca Guarnotta (Venice Calls), Andrea Curtoni e Giulia Mazzorin (Biennale Urbana).
Il sesto episodio di “Nowtilus" è dedicato alle azioni di rigenerazione culturale e difesa dell’ambiente lagunare. Andremo alla scoperta di alcune pratiche e esperienze di cura, difesa e re-immaginazione della città che sono sorte da dinamiche cittadine spontanee, fuori dagli schemi istituzionali. Come in ogni città, anche Venezia ha visto il sorgere, negli anni, di progetti, associazioni, gruppi, comitati, che si interrogano sulle necessità del tessuto urbano e ambientale e vanno a colmare quelle zone di fragilità di cui l’apparato istituzionale e politico - per scelta o noncuranza - sembra non tutelare abbastanza. Tra le tante storie che la laguna può offrire, abbiamo deciso di ospitare quelle di Marco Baravalle che ci racconta della nascita e missione di S.a.L.E. Docks e delle forza cittadina e l’eco internazionale che il "Comitato No Grandi Navi - Laguna Bene Comune" è riuscito a catalizzare; con Francesca Guarnotta parliamo del giovane gruppo di volontario e attivisti di Venice Calls, che aiutano la città nelle grandi e piccole emergenze di ogni giorno e infine con Andrea Curtoni e Giulia Mazzorin, conosciuti anche come Biennale Urbana, abbiamo il piacere di ascoltare le storie di due esperienze di rigenerazione urbana davvero significative ancora oggi: quelle del Teatro Marinoni e della mCaserma Pepe al Lido.
L'episodio è disponibile 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.
"Against / currents. Big ships, skate ramps, and renewed activism" with Marco Baravalle (S.a.L.E. Docks, Comitato No Grandi Navi - Laguna Bene Comune), Francesca Guarnotta (Venice Calls), Andrea Curtoni and Giulia Mazzorin (Biennale Urbana).
The sixth episode of “Nowtilus" is focussed on acts of cultural regeneration and defending the lagoon environment. We will be exploring practices and experiences relating to safeguarding, defending, and reimagining the city that have spontaneously arisen from the city’s unique dynamics, independently from institutional projects. As is the case in every city, over the years Venice has also seen the rise of projects, associations, groups, and committees that task themselves with tackling the needs of the urban and environmental fabric, filling the gap left by the institutional and political apparatus in vulnerable areas, where, either by choice or through carelessness, they don’t appear to be offering the right support. Among the many stories that the lagoon can offer, we have decided to give a platform to those of Marco Baravalle, who tells us about both the foundation and mission of S.a.L.E. Docks, and the “No Grandi Navi Committee - Laguna Bene Comune” which has managed to catalyze the strength of citizens, echoing all around the world; Francesca Guarnotta, who talks about the young volunteers and activists from Venice Calls, who help the city in everyday emergencies, no matter how large or small; and finally Andrea Curtoni and Giulia Mazzorin, also known as Urban Biennale, who tell us the stories of two examples of urban regeneration that are still particularly relevant to this day: the Marinoni Theater and the Caserma del Pepe barracks on the Lido.
The episode is available in Italian on 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.
