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Alice Ongaro Sartori

WETLANDS

part of a series on Crossroads

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How can the fragility and potential of the Venice Lagoon inspire a new vision for contemporary society?

About the speaker

Alice is an independent curator and researcher based in Venice, interested in how art and the moving image intersect with ecology and the psychology of society. Until 2022 she was co-curator of the independent project MICROCLIMA and was part of the curatorial team of the Floating Cinema (edition I, II, III), in Venice. Until 2021 she led the Public Program of Ocean Space (TBA21-Academy), a center for exhibitions, research and public programs catalyzing ocean literacy and advocacy through the arts. Alice has collaborated as curatorial assistant with The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and as Consultant for Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. She is now a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, working on her thesis "Flashback Fascism: Artists’ Books, Collages, and Other Works on Paper in 1960s and 1970s Italy."

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