TIANNA KENNEDY
Swimming Cities of Serenissima: Making and riding beautiful junk from Koper to Venice with many dirty people, putting on a show, and then taking it all apart again.
© Photo by Tod Seelie
Date: Friday 9.18
Start Time: 12:00pm
Location: Einstein Auditorium, Rm. 105, Barney building
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima was fleet of handmade boats and a crew of artists traveling the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice this May and June, 2009. We made art boats from junk and performed the dreamy story of a drifting metropolis during the Venice Biennale, a celebrated contemporary art exhibition.
© Photo by Tod Seelie
This workshop will provide a forum for a discussion of this project and others like it. It will take the form of a brief slideshow and introducing the project and the crew, a faciliated Q&A, and a moderated discussion. Participants should leave the workshop with a plan for executing an impossible dream of their own.
www.swimmingcities.org
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http://todseelie.com/serenissimaportraits
http://todseelie.com/serenissima
© Photo by Tod Seelie
Tianna Kennedy was project manager for Swimming Cities of Serenissima (conceived of by the artist Swoon).
Tianna’s work creates spaces that provide an opportunity for and improve the quality of public life. She also works to faciliate the viability of amatuer collaborative ventures. She has consulted, curated, or performed in thousands of events. Past projects include squatting a WW11 rescue boat in the Gowanus Canal and running it as an art space for two years, as well as working with pirate or hybrid radio/transmission art in New York and around the world with free103poin9. She is concerned with the mismanagement of natural and public resources and her work deals with this in a roundabout way. She also, teaches, writes, and plays cello with rock bands.
