Found Footage: May in Venice

A broken phone, a borrowed phone, and recovered images.

If you’re in Venice this year, stop by the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale to see Oceanic Refractions, exhibiting until 23 November. You can read more about it in the National Indigenous Times and The Saturday Paper.

In a noisy world, where everything vies for attention, we hope Oceanic Refractions is a quiet capsule encouraging visitors to pause, listen across fault lines, acknowledge our interconnectivity, and consider what might need repairing before rushing into the compulsion to create.

Our days in Venice were a blur - a culmination of seven months of crowdfunding, grant writing, visa applications, and Zoom calls across multiple timezones to adapt, design and build the installation. Intense as it was, what a gift it is to collaborate with good humans, and what a responsibility to carry this work with the respect it deserves.

My phone screen went dead the evening I landed in Venice and the photos from the borrowed phone have only just made their way to me. Here’s a photo journal recapping our time in La Serenissima.