1.11 Nowtilus: Tutte le Venezie del Mondo con Alberto Toso Fei

All The Venices of The World. Postcards, Comics, Games, and Curiosities from Alberto Toso Fei’s Collection. For the last episode of 2020, “Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century” hosts writer and journalist Alberto Toso Fei for a conversation about a truly special collection of objects. In dialogue with Enrico Bettinello, Toso Fei reveals his collection of memorabilia linked to Venice, and explains the often misrepresented, fictionalized, and exaggerated imagery of the most reproduced city in the world. From postcards that represent the “Venices” of other countries, to comics that portray their protagonists struggling with gondolas and canals, to musical scores, games and bizarre things that sum up the myth of the lagoon city and its unexpected interpretations. The episode is available on Ocean Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes and Google Podcasts. Music: Saltland (2020) by Enrico Coniglio. "Random Access" (2009) by Molven. Courtesy of Enrico Coniglio and Molven. The podcast is in Italian. English transcripts of all episodes are available on Ocean Archive: https://ocean-archive.org/view/1974.

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What can we ask the Ocean? In our sonic explorations, we dive deep into conversations about art, culture, the Ocean, equality, imagination and community, as well as music curated around the oceanic stories of our human and non-human collaborations. Created and curated by TBA21–Academy, a cultural organisation investigating environmental injustice through the lens of art, and its initiative Ocean Space, a new embassy for the Oceans situated in the Church of San Lorenzo, Venice.