VENICE TRAVEL AGENCY – DAY 3 · PART 2 ✨
The second part of our Day 3 unfolded along shifting shorelines, tidal rhythms, speculative futures, and collective voices rising from the lagoon.
We began by exploring the edges of Sant’Erasmo’s Bacàn area through a tidal walk guided by Gaia Tovaglia (
@gaiatovaglia ) and her project “colmare.” With each step, “colmare” invited us to inhabit these in-between spaces intertidal zones that exist only in certain hours, certain moods of the sea.
How do we walk through what appears and disappears?
What do these temporary lands remember when we leave?
How do we acknowledge spaces that refuse permanence, yet hold so much life?
We then approached the Bacan Island by boat. After a pause of quiet inhabitation, we entered Lotta Bauer’s (
@lottabauer_ ) “Invagency Cruises.” Set in a future where „invasive“ species like the comb jelly are woven into daily life, Invagency Cruises imagines a new kind of journey no longer passive, but participatory. Through immersive storytelling, we travelled through parallels and potential symbioses between humans and comb jellies, blurring the borders between species, sensing other ways of being, drifting, adapting, surviving.
We closed the day with a powerful vocal performance by our Sirens, Charlotte Vetter (
@charlommm ) and Katharina Steinbüchler. Sirening is an attempt to translate the lagoon’s lamentations into sound maybe understandable, maybe not, but deeply felt. A method of connection, a collective vocal practice that dissolves distance and invites belonging.
Use your emotions.
Shed your skins.
Sharpen your teeth.
Wear your unwanted labels as armor.
Spread your wings and sing your song.
A call to all those who’ve ever been named “the Unknown”: follow the voice, and come closer.
Follow the next steps of our lagoon journey ✨🌀
Photos by Sophie Morelli (
@sophie_morelli ) & Gaia Tovaglia (
@gaiatovaglia )
VTA is part of StudioVenice Chaired by
@buurrb
#spaceanddesignstrategies #inhabiting #lagoon