Concept, dramaturgy and recordings: Cosimo Ferrigolo, Leonardo Schifino, Theresa Maria Schlichtherle / Extragarbo

Voice: Theresa Maria Schlichtherle

Venice is the city of drifting. Getting to know Venice means walking and getting lost. Venice means renunciation. The city asks one to abandon the conventional way of moving and instead to adopt a particular strategy of walking: moving randomly around until the edges of a limited space where nature and urbanism are intertwined and mutually contaminated. Here, walking and looking are inextricably linked to spatial coordinates. They are anchored to a horizontality that is inevitable: because of the impossibility of embracing the city from a bird’s-eye-view, getting to know Venice means facing it, being literally immersed. Every participant will freely dispose of a selection of texts – made available before starting this workshop – that may shed light on the less well-known curiosities that characterise the different districts (sestieri) of the city. The objective is to create a shared knowledge to provide inspiration for producing reflections, ideas and new visions on the peculiar characteristics of the urban system in Venice. During the first part of the workshop the participants will face Venice in letting themselves drift and shadow venetian life (vivere la città). By experiencing the act of shadowing we will collect through different dispositives (camera, notebook, audio recorder, etc.) primary ephemeral evidence of venetian life and its space which then in a second part will be transformed by the participants in a dramaturgy of experience and hence re-performed.