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23 Apr 2025 17:00

Workshop with Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann

Sale Docks - Venezia, Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni, 266

Sale Docks, Dorsoduro 265, Venezia
MAY 23-24-25, 2025

A workshop in Venice and Porto Marghera together with Alice Creischer, Andrea Siekmann and Sale Docks. What is the workshop about? About Venetian painting and the archives of workers' struggles against noxiousness. The aim is the production of postcards and posters that can be seen as a tourist counter-narrative.In the workshop we will talk about various paintings from the 16th to 18th century that particularly fascinate the artists. We will combine these paintings with the history and present of the pollution of the lagoon - particularly by the petrochemical industry. A trial was held against the Eni and Montedison companies, which was only possible thanks to the active research  and engagement of Gabriele Bortolozzo.The trial ended in 2001 with an acquittal for the managers and this acquittal was confirmed on appeal in 2004.
Crucial were also the workers' struggles of the Assemblea Autonoma di Porto Marghera, of which Augusto Finzi was a member, and the engagement of the former partisan and politician Cesco Chinello.  
The Gabriele Bortolozzo and Augusto Finzi archives can be viewed today at the municipal library in Porto Marghera, while the Cesco Chienllo archive is preserved at the IVESER Research Center in Venice. To this day, the poisoning and the trial are among the injustices experienced by the population, which continue to be perpetuated by the precarious state of the lagoon, the air, the cruise ships and the over-tourism in Venice.On the other hand, there are numerous motifs in Venetian painting that bear witness to a deep connection (cohabitation) between nature and people. We will relate motifs from these paintings to the photos and documents in the different archives.The aim is to create a collage portfolio that we will later turn into prints of "alternative postcards".

PROGRAM

Friday, May 23 
SALE Docks h. 17.00-20.00

Introduction to the workshop with Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Sale Docks.
How does 16th century Venetian painting relate to workers' struggles against noxiousness and current struggles against extractivism in the Venice Lagoon?
With an intervention by dr. Anda Pleniceanu about Venetian Informalism as related to environmental and social crises in the Anthropocene (Developed in collaboration with the Ecological Art Practices research group at THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)).

Saturday, May 24
IVESER (Istituto Veneziano per la Storia della Resistenza), h. 10.00-12.00

Exploration of the Cesco Chinello Archive with Stefano Micheletti (environmental activist), Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Sale Dock

Porto Marghera municipal library h. 15.00-17.00
Exploration of The Augusto Finzi Archive with Lorenzo Fe (research fellow, Ca'Foscari University Of Venice)

Sunday, May 24, h.11.00 onwards
Sale Docks
Collage and cards production workshop at SALE Docks

To register for the workshop, please use the following link

Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

NICHE, DFBC, Sale Docks

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