Vaporetto ACTV: line 1, line 2, Venice, Italy, 2023
Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke, and Lorenzo Mason for the AquaGranda project and archive. Stratigrafie Operative is an art installation with monumental and sculptural traits that flows through the city, reappropriating the very element that has become iconic of that night: a ferryboat. It was born from the joint research action of Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke and Lorenzo Mason, who have been working for the last two years on the collection and reworking of some materials kept by the Venetian institutions that actively participated in the management of the emergency caused by the exceptional tide that submerged the city, the aqua granda.
The whole process was coordinated and managed with the support of the AquaGranda project team, an archive in continuous evolution that aims to keep the memory of that event alive in order to reflect on the future of the city of Venice. Appropriating the spaces usually used for advertising, Stratigrafie Operative retraces the tale of the aqua granda from an unprecedented point of view, layering its memory through technical narratives related to the memory of that night.
