Dates｜2024.10.11–12
Artists ＆ Scholars｜Szu Ni Wen, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Domenico Napolitano (Sec_), Francesca Tarocco, Roberta da Soller, Marco Baravalle, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, lám-nuā, Delayed Takeoff from Taoyuan, and more.
Curator｜I-Yi Hsieh
Venue｜S.a.L.E. Docks

Contested Waters is a visual art project connecting aquatic aesthetics of Taipei, Venice, and Kaohsiung. Swimming into the ways in which waters are militarized, capitalized, and troubled in the age of hyper geopolitical frictions, in 2024 we launch the tri-year project by first gathering together in the up-coming workshop in Venice, October 11-12th, at S.a.L.E. Docks. The 2024 workshop focuses on the theme of Aquatic Futurism, bringing together Italian and Taiwanese artists, scholars, and activists to explore and re-imagine forms of aquatic futures in our time of planetary polycrisis.

In the 2-day workshop, we focus on bringing cutting-edge performances inspired by scenes of militarized waters, lagoon jellyfish, and the social life and death of ships while surrounded by movements of weathering, listening, sounding, thinking and feeling with the contested politics of waterways. By staying with the trouble of waters with Taiwanese and Italian critical ecology art groups and anti-big-cruise movement members, we hope to explore new horizons toward conceiving and re-conceiving aquatic futures as critical material connections.

The workshop is a part of the Contested Waters exhibition project 2024-2025 (Taipei, Kaohsiung, & Venice), curated by Dr. I-Yi Hsieh (Multispecies Justice research cluster, the International Center for Cultural Studies, Taiwan N.Y.C.U.), in collaboration with S.a.L.E. Docks collective & the Art for Critical Ecology network in Venice, along with the Environmental Humanities program at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

The project thanks National Culture and Arts Foundation, Chew’s Culture Foundation, RSI Group, Lion Pencil CO., the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Multispecies Justice research cluster at International Center for Cultural Studies in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, MOE’s Higher Education SPROUT Project for their gracious support.

Schedule
October 11th, Friday
11:30 – 12:00 / Opening remark with curator I-Yi Hsieh
12:00 – 13:00 / Lecture performance with Szu-ni Wen: Bathing in the Current
13:00 – 14:30 / lunch break
14:30 – 15:30 / Workshop with Bruna Bonanno
15:30 – 16:00 / Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 / Performance, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett: On the Same Lifeboat with Those I Hate

October 12th, Saturday
11:30 – 13:30 / Ecological tour of the lagoon, with Fie a Manetta
13:30 – 15:00 / lunch break
15:00 – 16:30 / Artist talk with Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, moderated by Francesca Tarocco
16:30 – 17:00 / Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 / Generation discussion: futures with young artists and all participants
Wu Renyu (art collective, lám-nuā) & Hsiang Wang (art duo, Delayed Takeoff from Taoyuan)
18:30 – 20:00 / Noise performance with Domenico Napolitano (Sec_)

Artist Bio

Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina are self-taught artist duo based in Jakarta. Their initial work is to place the imagination through performative intervention in the midst of chaotic public space of megapolitan Jakarta, which faces the dilemma of uncontrolled urbanization and pollution. The development of networks in art, activist and scientist circles has encouraged their artistic practice to progress toward the more profound and deeper circumstances. They are currently working on a long-term project related to geopolitical turmoil in the Ring of Fire – Pacific Rim, the most prone region to natural disasters as well as traumatic consequences which is caused by the persistent ideological violence. They see their high mobility as the main vehicle to participate in residency programs, research, field study and exhibitions especially in specific areas, which are paradoxical such as some heavenly yet deadly beautiful places on earth. Irwan and Tita wanted to find answers about planetary anxieties in regard to human existence by means of evolutionary perspective and to produce knowledge through arts related to injustice, humanity and ecology.

Image | Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Kalvari Class
Font Design | Yajou Chang

涉水而渡 

2024年10月威尼斯工作坊 水未來主義

時間 | 2024 年 10 月 11-12 日
藝術家&學者 | 温思妮，Ranjit Kandalgaonkar，Domenico Napolitano (Sec_)，Francesca Tarocco，吳礽喻（軟爛共讀），王正祥（空城現場），Bruna Bonanno，Roberta da Soller，Marco Baravalle，Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett
策展人 | 謝ㄧ誼
地點 | 威尼斯 S.a.L.E. Docks 藝術空間

《涉水而渡》是一個橫跨台北、高雄、與威尼斯的跨國展覽合作計畫，探討在高度地緣政治摩擦的時代，水被領域化、軍事化、資本化，並因此陷入無以為渡。儘管如此，《涉水而渡》計畫還是試圖與台灣、芬蘭、威尼斯當代視覺藝術工作者與藝術團體，一起接近穿越水生麻煩的各種可能性。在這些朝向水未來主義的試探中，我們探問返回水宇宙的當代視覺藝術，與合作型人類世藝術的新形式。

2024年10月的「水未來主義」工作坊，在台灣陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心「多物種正義」研究群的支持下，與威尼斯 S.a.L.E. Docks 藝術團體和威尼斯大學環境人文學程合作，匯聚台灣、義大利與印度的藝術工作者、生態學者與批判地理學者、威尼斯女性主義城市行動者、以及義大利「反大型郵輪運動」運動參與者，進行為期兩天的瀉湖水道體感走讀、行船、濕地生態探索、創作、研討、植栽，以貼近變化中的瀉湖城市環境感知，朝向新型態瀉湖未來設計的跨領域合作可能性。

贊助單位：
財團法人國家文化藝術基金會、信源企業股份有限公司、雄獅鉛筆廠股份有限公司、財團法人邱再興文教基金會、教育部高教深耕計畫、國立陽明交通大學文化研究中心「多物種正義」研究群、國立陽明交通大學人社系暨族文所。

主視覺藝術 | Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Kalvari Class
主視覺設計 | 張雅柔