Come to Venice
Come to Venice (2008 - 2015) is a project about the love for an island, the fear to lose it. A little act of collective performance, a sound of a high tide siren. It is a work dedicated to people who live there and to anyone who feels part of it. Such an intimate thing to belong to everybody. The project, grown up with the relation with locals and, at once, the institutions who take care of the city, is composed by photographic fragments and series, audio, videos, participated contexts, workshops, drawings, live performances, a documentary. Amerigo Nutolo, project curator, wrote: "Venice and its Lagoon - the artist's motherland, earlier destination, and now origin, of a diasporical movement, under the pressure of a massive penetration of visitors - are places of human braiding, exchange, substitution. A living stage, clotted in the mud, between garlic and sapphires as the T. S. Eliot's poem told. The siren of Come to Venice started to sing few years after Benedetta Panisson moved in Milan, giving begin to a journey through her own birthplace and community, and their contraddictions."
Technical details
Documentary, 19' 26", HD, colour. High tide siren, original sound, live performance, 10', with a simultaneous artist lecture. Other informations upon request.
Exhibitions
TEA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; S. Marco Square, Negozio Olivetti, FAI and Arsenale, Porta Nuova Tower, Venice, official screenings. Maison de l'UNESCO/COAL, Paris, S'adapter a l'Anthropocene, exhibition, Contingent Movements Archive, Maldives Pavillion, 55th Venice Biennale (web platform participation); Office Project Room, screening room, Milan. Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Project Space Festival, sound performance. Sarajevo Winter Festival, screening. University of MIlano-Bicocca. Royal College of Art, London. Onassis Foundation, Athens, academic seminaries, screenings and collaborations. EU 7FP coordination action/project, Modena, Bruxelles (BOZAR, European Commision), Venice, workshop and screenings (with ECLT/Ca' Foscari and many participant universities)
Awards
Istituto Veneto’s International Journalism Prize for Venice, 2014, winner.
La Guarimba International Film Festival, 2013, Amantea, Italy, Best Documentary Prize.
TEA | Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife | Gonzalo González: desplazamientos, aperturas, miradas desde el cine | curated by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián | 2019
Complete film selection: Escena frente al mar (Japón, 1991), de Takeshi Kitano, y Aequador (Francia, 2012), de Laura Huertas Millán; La isla desnuda (Japón, 1960), de Kaneto Shindo, y Corta (Colombia, 2012), de Felipe Guerrero; El espejo (Unión Soviética, 1975), de Andrei Tarkovski; El Laberinto (Francia, 2018), de Laura Huertas Millán, y Atrato (Francia, 2014), de Marcos Ávila Forero; Limite (Brasil, 1931), de Mário Peixoto, y Come to Venice (Italia, 2014), de Benedetta Panisson.
“En Come to Venice, de la artista conceptual y fotógrafa italiana Benedetta Panisson, los escenarios de la crisis, la implacable degradación del patrimonio histórico y urbanístico, y la fragilidad de la vida cotidiana en el archipiélago de Venecia, convierten a los ciudadanos en rehenes de la excesiva explotación turística y de los intereses económicos de la industria. La indignación y la resistencia se nos presentan aquí en clave queer, transgresora y provocadora, pues esta obra navega ágilmente entre los registros del documental etnográfico, la declaración reivindicativa y la investigación de los cuerpos (sensuales y sexuales) en un paisaje cotidiano, histórico y político. Panisson parece interpelar así, desde Venecia, algunas de las experiencias, aperturas y paradojas que se sugieren en la obra de Gonzalo González.” [Texto de Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Durham University]