The Current II: Convening #1 in Venice

TBA21–Academy presents two-days of performances and lectures curated by Chus Martínez, “Expedition Leader” of the second cycle of “The Current”; the first of three annual Convenings exploring the theme Spheric Ocean.

Participants include: Diva Amon, Julieta Aranda, Cecilia Bengolea, Claudia Comte, Francesca von Habsburg, Marah Hardt, Donna Kukama, Chus Martínez, Ingo Niermann, Markus Reymann, Mathilde Rosier, Georgia Sagri, Christina Tony, and with the participants of the Summer School #1

The programme takes place on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th with the following schedule.

Friday 28 September Day One – The Night of Oh!s
19:00 MARKUS REYMAN & FRANCESCA VON HABSBURG
Welcome
19:20 CHUS MARTÍNEZ
The Ohhhs! The Ways to Complain, Part I, A manifesto

20:00 MARAH HARDT
Sex and the Seas or How We Are Not Able to Mate With the Sea, a Pity, 
Lecture

21:30 GEORGIA SAGRI
The Creation of the Wave, Part I, Performance

Saturday 29 September Day Two – The Day of the Ah!s
11:00 CHUS MARTÍNEZ
The Ways to Awe!, Part II, A manifesto

11:30 MATHILDE ROSIER
Sensing the Seas, Performance and screening

12:00 DIVA AMON
Merging With The Depths!, Lecture

12:30 INGO NIERMANN, CHUS MARTÍNEZ, JULIETA ARANDA
Three Proposals of Understanding All We Need to Change in Us to Become the Sea, 
Lecture

13:30 CHRISTINA TONY
Everybody Got a Little Voice to Address the Seas, Lecture

14:00 BREAK

15:30 CLAUDIA COMTE
The Day that Wood and Matter Wanted to Become Salt Water,
 Performance

16:30 DONNA KUKAMA
The Ways We Sing and Move to Become Ocean, the Ways We Remember to Be Ocean, Performance

18:30 INTERVAL

19:00 MARAH HARDT
Sex and the Seas or How We Are Able to Mate with the Sea, a Luck!, 
Lecture

20:30 CECILIA BENGOLEA
The Creation of the Wave, Part II, Closing performance

MUSIC, JOY, DRINKS