A shadow's bliss: Venice 2013

Monday, July 22, 2013

"Some there be that shadow's kiss. Such have but shadow's bliss."William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

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Mapping Our Travels in Venice

We no longer look at objects, whether static or moving, but at movement as it passes through the object. As architects we used to be obsessed with the cube and the sphere; now we have become obsessed with a cloud, or a flock, with a traffic jam, with the behavior of a dog, with the substance and surface of water. Lars Spuybroek
Venice, a city built on water, embodies this idea of fluidity and motion. It is a city navigated on a sensory level. Join artist Colleen Choquette-Raphael on a week-long exploration of this incredible place as you map your travel experience using collage, photography, and writing. This trip is open to all levels of creative experience, from beginners to advanced. You only need the desire to chronicle your encounters in some way – written or visual or both. We stay in private apartments in a Venetian palace this week so that you may thoroughly embed yourself in this magical culture, invented from scratch in the 7th century.
Writer Italo Calvino describes Venice as the invisible city because of its poetic reputation as the domain of desire. Because of its unreal quality, it is a repository for what we all seek – an open air theater for our dreams. It is always changing (the tides; architecture in a constant flux of movement, disintegration, and rebuilding; travelers routinely arriving and departing) and so it is always unique in what it offers. Imagine Venice as a living cabinet of curiosity. What ephemera, which visual and written souvenirs will you choose to relay your experience?
What better guide for us to this city of dreams than Marco Polo, whose travelogue about his journey to China was called Il Milione by Italians, who thought it was made of a “million lies.” This illustrious explorer will help us navigate this glittering realm as we also consider the Venetian culture of map making which reached the level of fine art as the Venetian Republic strove to represent on paper its growing territory and power. We will examine how maps bring order to chaos, chart new terrains, and ultimately make visible the invisible, provide a forum for the imagination.

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