In the 2-day workshop, we focus on cutting-edge performances inspired by scenes of militarized waters, lagoon jellyfish, and the social life and death of ships while surrounded by movements of weathering, listening, sounding, thinking and feeling with the contested politics of waterways. By staying with the trouble of waters with Taiwanese and Italian critical ecology art practioners, we hope to explore new horizons toward conceiving and reconceiving aquatic futures as critical material connections.
The workshop is a part of the Contested Waters exhibition project 2024-2025 (Taipei, Kaohsiung, & Venice), curated by Dr. I-Yi Hsieh (Multispecies Justice research cluster, the International Center for Cultural Studies, Taiwan N.Y.C.U.), in collaboration with S.a.L.E. Docks collective & the Art for Critical Ecology network in Venice, along with the Environmental Humanities program at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Dates | 2024. 10. 11 – 12
Participating Artists and Scholars | Szu Ni Wen, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Domenico Napolitano (Sec_), Francesca Tarocco, Roberta da Soller, Marco Baravalle, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Renyu (art collective Lám-nuā), Delayed Takeoff from Taoyuan, and more.
Curator | I-Yi Hsieh
Venue | S.a.L.E. Docks
Image | Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Kalvari Class
Font Design | Yajou Chang
The project thanks Taiwan Council of Culture and Arts, Chew’s Culture Foundation, RSI Group, Lion Pencil Co., the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Multispecies Justice research cluster at International Center for Cultural Studies in National Taiwan Yangming-Chiaotung University, and the NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice for their gracious support.
Schedule
October 11th, Friday
11:30 - 12:00 / Opening remarks with curator I-Yi Hsieh
12:00 - 13:00 / Lecture performance with Szu-ni Wen : Bathing in the Current
13:00 - 14:30 / lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 / Workshop with Bruna Bonanno
15:30 - 16:00 / Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 / Performance, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett,
On the Same Lifeboat with Those I Hate.
October 12th, Saturday
11:30 - 13:30 / Ecological tour of the lagoon, with Fie a Manetta
13:30 - 15:00 / lunch break
15:00 - 16:30 / Artist talk with Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, moderated by Francesca Tarocco
16:30 - 17:00 / Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 / Generation discussion: futures with young artists and all participants
Renyu (art collective, Lám-nuā) &
Hsiang Wang (art duo, Delayed Takeoff from Taoyuan)