Public Programs in Venice
Note: All events are in Venice local time and take place at the Resonance exhibition Fondazione Marchesani.
Please email eadj@vanderbilt.edu for any event or exhibition questions.
Tamara Reynolds, documentary photographer and Lecturer in the Department of Art at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø, is in residence at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, where her work Melungeon is featured in Resonance. Supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Reynolds spent three years living in Sneedville, East Tennessee, building a relationship with the Melungeons—a mixed-race people of African, Native American and European descent, marked for generations by suspicion and racial indeterminacy. Her project engages issues around documentary methodology, the ethics of sustained presence and what it means to photograph a community that is also family.
12:00 - 17:00
Resonance opens its doors for a daylong open house at Fondazione Marchesani.
12:00 - 17:00
The exhibition—galleries, screening room a garden—are open to the public
14:00 - 17:00
The public is invited to an afternoon program of film, talks and poetry with artists and scholars Javier Castro, Gigi Castro, Luis William, Elvira Aballà Morell and Tamara Reynolds.
Raheleh Filsoofi, Assistant Professor of Art, Department of Art and Blair School of Music, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø, is in residence at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, where her work Meeting Ground is featured in Resonance. During her residency, Filsoofi collects dust and clay sediment from Venice to produce a new series of prints using her argillotype process—a clay-based method in which dust serves as both pigment and trace.
18:00
Resonance: Between Shores is a new performance work exploring migration, displacement, and the relationship between land, body, and sound through clay and performance. This two-person performance, between Raheleh Filsoofi and Reza Filsoofi, brings poetry and resonance into dialogue through a pair of ceramic vessels made from Nashville soil. Connected and partially veiled with beads and threads, the vessels create a fragile landscape between instrument, body, and archive.
As Reza Filsoofi activates one vessel through rhythm and vibration, Raheleh Filsoofi recites poems through the other — texts reflecting on earth, war, movement, and the experience of living between places. Developed in relation to Venice and its long histories of exchange between East and West, the performance considers how materials and voices carry traces of distant geographies across borders and water. Through resonance, breath, and clay, the vessels become chambers of accumulation, holding the sediments of memory, passage, and survival between shores.