The Public Program IF ONLY WE HAD EARS of the Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2024 is curated by Luca Cerizza in collaboration with Gaia Martino and focuses on some central themes for the Due qui/Two Hear project by Massimo Bartolini.
Not to be missed at this event: the talk by writer and biologist David George Haskell, readings of texts by Tiziano Scarpa and Nicoletta Costa, and the site-specific sound performance by Attila Faravelli (sound artist and electro-acoustic musician); Enrico Malatesta (percussionist and sound researcher); Nicola Ratti (sound designer and versatile musician).
To access the meetings at the Giardino delle Vergini at the Arsenale, an entrance ticket to La Biennale di Venezia is required.
Friday, June 14
4 PM: David George Haskell (writer and biologist), Songs of the Trees – TALK (Eng)
5 PM: Diana Lola Posani (sound artist, vocal performer, and Deep Listening facilitator), Vettori atmosferici di germogli trasparenti: ascolto profondo ed eco-mutualità – TALK (Ita)
6 PM: READING (Ita) of texts by Tiziano Scarpa and Nicoletta Costa
Discorso di un condannato alle piante written and read by Tiziano Scarpa (novelist, playwright, and poet): L’albero presuntuoso written by Nicoletta Costa read by Francesca Verga (assistant curator of the Italian Pavilion)
Saturday, June 15
4 PM: David George Haskell and Francesco Bergamo (architect and PhD in Design Sciences), Sounds Wild and Broken – CONVERSATION (Eng)
5 PM: Neelakshi Joshi (social scientist, urban planner, and architect), Radical movements for climate action: making a space-time connection – TALK (Eng)
6 PM: Superpaesaggio SITE-SPECIFIC SOUND PERFORMANCE
Attila Faravelli (sound artist and electro-acoustic musician); Enrico Malatesta (percussionist and sound researcher); Nicola Ratti (sound designer and versatile musician)
