Sonia Levy's inquiry-led practice considers shifting modes of engagement with more-than-human worlds. She will speak on the topic of 'Submerged Knowledges: Filmmaking and Experiments in the Venetian Lagoon' related to her EMBracing the Ocean residency project aiming to bring attention to the city's submerged, life-giving and altered bio-geomorphological processes. Sonia developed a film in collaboration with marine scientists, which premiered at the Floating Cinema in Venice and was exhibited locally. She also held participatory workshops with local resource managers and policymakers using the submarine audiovisuals as a catalyst for co-creating strategies for the Lagoon’s management. The project included a residency at the Stazione Idrobiologica Umberto D'Ancona, University of Padova and Sonia’s primary collaborator is Associate Professor Alberto Barausse. Find out more about her project here.
Studio ThinkingHand is an art duo formed by Rhoda Ting and Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen, based in Denmark. Combining science, technology and industry, their works make stories visible looking at life beyond the human gaze, investigating speculative futures and exploring philosophies that can move us collectively and affirmatively beyond the Anthropocene. During their residency, they worked predominately in collaboration with Professor Giuliana Panieri and other scientists from the Arctic University of Norway, on their project 'Sensing deep time' to create glass cores from Ocean floor sediment from extreme environments exploring how they can act as a tool for further scientific research. The glass cores have been displayed in various exhibitions together with ROV footage from expeditions and aims to connect audiences to life in extreme environments across deep time perspectives and explore how learning about the past can work towards speculating shifting evolutions and futures. Find out more about their project here.
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