Presencias y evanescencias de un paisaje portuario veneciano

Santa Marta (Venecia) como concept

Abstract

Within the framework of the academic project ‘Santa Marta as a concept’, which was developed at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, School of New Technologies for Art, in collaboration with the Venetian Architects Association, the themes and works were produced for the “Open! Studi aperti 2024”, a programme of the National Council of Architects Planners Landscape Planners Conservators of Italy. Under the theme ‘La cura, Cittá Metropolitana di Venezia’, the Santa Marta neighbourhood took centre stage, a port area characterised by important waterfront projects and the presence of a consolidated, ex-working class urban reality outside the main tourist circuits of the city of Venice. In the experience, the neighbourhood represented for the art students, the architects and a group of inhabitants an experimental space for dialogue, exchange and multidimensional and multimedia socio-spatial research. The relationship with the place and the recognition of the ‘heritage’ of Santa Marta is an aesthetic experience, oscillating between ‘effect of presence’ and ‘effect of meaning’, in a port landscape in becoming and, at the same time, evanescent, which dissipates the value of social life, collective memory and the heritage of everyday life. The exhibition consists of several digital works, which were presented to the public inside the old church of Santa Marta. It consists of video projections, mapping, video installations, interactive multimedia installations and sound, in dialogue with the architects' proposals for the urban redesign of public spaces. The process that was carried out leaves artistic works, the experience of co-creation and, above all, the emerging forms and meanings in a participatory, experiential and interactive dimension.