Independent curator Alice Ongaro Sartori collaborates with artists across the archipelago in the Venetian lagoon to develop site specific projects that focus on how art, ecology and the public sphere intersect. 

In this first episode we cover:

• TBA21s Ocean Space, an arts foundation advocating for ocean literacy through art. With an international focus, it has found its home in Venice, and tries to find a balance between the global and local by working with Veneto artists, alongside those further afield,


• examples of site-specific arts projects in the lagoon; such as The Garden of the Unaccompanied Children and the Floating Cinema (people came together in 300+ gondolas in the lagoon to watch films),


• the importance of collaboration in Alice’s practice and how she values female power,


• how fascist imagery from the 1960s and 70s can be seen in popular culture today,


• and new African fiction being published by Venice-based publisher wetlands.

Whether you are interested in how artists and curators respond to the social, political and environmental tensions within a place, or you are fascinated by the beauty and mythology of Venice, this episode promises to reveal another layer of Venice that can only be experienced by immersing yourself in the lagoon.

Tune in to hear how the islands in the Venezia lagoon influence the psyche and the artistic imagination.