EventAugust 19, 2021
Cinema galleggiante - Acque sconosciute /Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters. II Edition - Rethinking the city from the perspective of the lagoon
From 20th August to 4th September 2021 Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters, an open-air film festival in the waters of Venice Lagoon will take place. It is part of the series of events that celebrate the 1600 years of Venice.
The event consists of a series of screenings, performances and presentations on a floating platform located in the middle of the lagoon, in the shallows behind the Giudecca island, located close to the Rio de Sant’Eufemia. Spectators will be able to watch the programming from both their own boats, and from a barge designed to accommodate members of the public without a boat, in compliance with the current social distancing rules.
The theme of the festival is travel. Travel embodies not only the exploration of distant lands, the depths of the sea, outer space and time itself, but also the exploration of the relationships between cultures, a way of accessing and comparing them with one another.
A project conceived by Edoardo Aruta and Paolo Rosso presented by Microclima, in collaboration with Ocean Space / TBA21 − Academy, Pentagram Stiftung, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection, In Between Art Film Foundation and Lamyland - Owenscorp.
On 26th August the video installation - ...A story I never forgot... (15’ 12’’) (2013/2015), by Brazilian artist Rosana Palazyan will be presented for the first time in art film format at Cinema galleggiante - Acque sconosciute.
The work returns to Venice in an inedited format, after having participated in the 56th Venice International Art Biennial (2015), in the Pavilion awarded the Golden Lion (National Pavillion of the Republic of Armenia), curated by Adelina Von Fürstenberg). It proposes to reconnect the fragmented memory of stories and narrative heard since the artist childhood, about the diaspora as a consequence of the Armenian genocide (c. 1915 to 1923). It was necessary to reassemble each fragment of memory as in a puzzle, full of enormous personal cost. A story that was impossible to forget. To forget it would mean forgetting one’s own being.
“Receiving the festival's invitation to present the video in an enlarged format as a film, with an outdoor night projection, on a platform over the water, reminded me of the first ideas for the spatial conception of the video installation: The video in circular format and the embroidery threads on the floor, had as reference a landscape with a view of the moon reflected on the water. Or of a planet and its stories, being seen from a distance through a telescope. Besides that, also the concept of the invention of cinema with reference to the magic lantern, suggesting a remote past (…) I identified in this possibility of presentation, bringing a new spatial proposal to the work, as in a new site specific. Having as elements the sky and waters of Venice,” explains Palazyan.
Watch the video here: https://www.artfortheworld.net/rosanapalazyan.
The event consists of a series of screenings, performances and presentations on a floating platform located in the middle of the lagoon, in the shallows behind the Giudecca island, located close to the Rio de Sant’Eufemia. Spectators will be able to watch the programming from both their own boats, and from a barge designed to accommodate members of the public without a boat, in compliance with the current social distancing rules.
The theme of the festival is travel. Travel embodies not only the exploration of distant lands, the depths of the sea, outer space and time itself, but also the exploration of the relationships between cultures, a way of accessing and comparing them with one another.
A project conceived by Edoardo Aruta and Paolo Rosso presented by Microclima, in collaboration with Ocean Space / TBA21 − Academy, Pentagram Stiftung, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection, In Between Art Film Foundation and Lamyland - Owenscorp.
On 26th August the video installation - ...A story I never forgot... (15’ 12’’) (2013/2015), by Brazilian artist Rosana Palazyan will be presented for the first time in art film format at Cinema galleggiante - Acque sconosciute.
The work returns to Venice in an inedited format, after having participated in the 56th Venice International Art Biennial (2015), in the Pavilion awarded the Golden Lion (National Pavillion of the Republic of Armenia), curated by Adelina Von Fürstenberg). It proposes to reconnect the fragmented memory of stories and narrative heard since the artist childhood, about the diaspora as a consequence of the Armenian genocide (c. 1915 to 1923). It was necessary to reassemble each fragment of memory as in a puzzle, full of enormous personal cost. A story that was impossible to forget. To forget it would mean forgetting one’s own being.
“Receiving the festival's invitation to present the video in an enlarged format as a film, with an outdoor night projection, on a platform over the water, reminded me of the first ideas for the spatial conception of the video installation: The video in circular format and the embroidery threads on the floor, had as reference a landscape with a view of the moon reflected on the water. Or of a planet and its stories, being seen from a distance through a telescope. Besides that, also the concept of the invention of cinema with reference to the magic lantern, suggesting a remote past (…) I identified in this possibility of presentation, bringing a new spatial proposal to the work, as in a new site specific. Having as elements the sky and waters of Venice,” explains Palazyan.
Watch the video here: https://www.artfortheworld.net/rosanapalazyan.
