Convivial Tables in Campo. Semipiatto

On Saturday 28 September we look forward to seeing you for the third edition of “Convivial Tables in Campo”, the final moment and public conclusion of the program Convivial Tables, this year curated by the Barena Bianca collective with the title “A Diet for Resistance”.

“Semipiatto” will be the chance to publicly present the path we’ve taken together with a group of participants selected through an open call who since June have accompanied us through the lagoon, vegetable gardens, debates, lunches, and sustainable practices. We will try to define what a resistance diet is, and what it has been over the course of this journey, sharing words and foods that came about over the last few months with the public.

In addition to presenting this collective manifesto, an object made for the occasion will be presented that will have the dual function of containing the food prepared for the evening (plate/piatto) and of helping the propagation of new halophytic species (through seeds/semi). This is an object resulting from the workshop that reveals the desire to sow something both new and resistant in the lagoon ecosystem.

During the day we will also celebrate the end of the Ocean Families children's workshop cycle. A large parade will invade the campo, while the facade of Ocean Space will be illuminated with projections of Zoographer's drawings, created during workshops and animated with the help of motion designer Matteo Stocco.

A special DJ set by MONTOYA will accompany the evening, from sunset until the end of the event.

We thank the Municipality of Venice-Murano-Burano for their support in organizing the event.

6 – 7pm | Conversation with the participants of the third edition of the program to share thoughts and attempts to approach a "resistance diet" by presenting a short manifesto capable of underlining the key words of this journey.

7 – 8pm | Parade and projections of the drawings of the fantastic bestiary of Zoographer's Zoo, at the end of the Ocean Families workshop cycle.

8 – 9pm | Culinary Intervention. The offerings of Barena Bianca will be served on clay plates, made for the occasion, containing seeds of halophyte plants, which can be then disseminated.

8 – 10:30pm | DJ set with MONTOYA. A sound journey, with unedited tracks, starting from the songs of Cuban peasants to the cumbia brought by slaves in northern Colombia, up to the candomblé of the African communities of Uruguay. Rhythms and notes that will move us to new geographies, reminding us how ritual displays freedom, union, and memory.

CONVIVIAL TABLES

Convivial Tables is TBA21–Academy’s active research program dedicated to the ties between food and ecology and the way these affect bodies of water, led by María Montero Sierra and Barbara Nardacchione with Markus Reymann. This research program is aligned with the principles of regeneration and more-than-human rights promoted by the project Zoöp, which TBA21–Academy is a partner in.

BARENA BIANCA

Barena Bianca is a lagoon artivism collective active since 2018. Its starting point is the idea that protecting an ecosystem and caring for the people who inhabit it are two aspects impossible to separate. The name Barena Bianca and the choice to work on wetlands as fundamental ecosystem elements and at the same time existential metaphors stem from the awareness that lagoon erosion and erosion of the city fabric are due to causes closely interconnected. In recent years, Barena Bianca has exhibited and presented her projects in Venice, Italy and abroad (England, Sweden, Turkey and Indonesia), and one of the most relevant results has been the didactic work in contact with Venetian schools (Canal Elementary School, Benedetti Tommaseo High School) and the local community through “Piantagruèl, the school of lagoon wildness” developed with MetaForte (Cavallino).

OCEAN FAMILIES 2024

Ocean Families program 2024 has been conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space and organised in partnership with LAS Art Foundation and Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR) in conjunction with the exhibitions Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania and Josèfa Ntjam: swell of spæc(i)es.

MONTOYA

Jhon William Castaño Montoya, aka MONTOYA, is a Colombian musician who has lived in Italy since 2001. With a classical education in violin and electronic composition at the Castelfranco Veneto Conservatory, he has developed a multifaceted musical universe that combines academic tradition and electronic experimentation. He was part of the creative research center Fabrica, publishing the albums El Viaje (2012) and Mohs (2013). Subsequently, with White Forest Records he released the album IWA (2015) and the EP LUX (2016). Since 2019 he has collaborated with ZZK Records, representing the Latin American electronic scene, with whom he released OTUN (2019) and EL NIDO (2023). He has worked with international artists such as Ricky Martin and Aterciopelados and has performed at important festivals such as Sonar Bogotá and the Senderos Festival in Montevideo.