Unseal the Water

2023 A group art project in the workshop “Utopia as Practice” led by Prof. Heba Y. Amin and Füsun Türetken during the Architecture Biennale 2023 “Laboratory of the Future” with the German Pavilion Venice “Open for Maintenance” In collaboration with Constanze Bahlo, Luca Mercedes Braig, and Milena Lore

“Unseal the Water” explores a speculative futuristic energy system derived from the abandoned Venetian cistern water system which shaped local communities and their everyday life. Inspired by the role of women as water carriers (Venetian Bigolante), different artistic methods were used (such as re-staging archival material, performative interventions, and narration) to initiate a ritual that unseals the water of the old Venetian cisterns. The objects used in this performance were fabricated with material remnants from the previous Art Biennale collected by the German Pavilion curatorial team.