Schedule
Public Programs in Venice
Note: All Events in Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00)
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SUNDAY, 10 MAY 2026
A Gathering in the Key of Resonance
Resonance opens with a full day of listening, in all forms. Conversations, screenings and sonic interludes—each one another way of attending to what resonates across time, place and practice.
11:00–11:30
Introduction & Sonic Welcome
MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak offer a formal introduction of Resonance andÌýa sonic intervention as a poetic gesture.Ìý
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11:30–12:00
What the Image Carries
MacArthur award–winning art historian and artist Deborah Willis joins curator Grace Aneiza Ali to explore how her photographs in Hortense’s Closet and her film Meditations on Joan Baez’ Civil War move between object and archive, stillness and motion, the private record and the public one—and how, across her practice, the image holds what is whispered, withheld and survived.Ìý
— Lunch —
13:00–13:30
The Minor Keys of Georges Adéagbo’s Practice
Georges Adéagbo and Stephan Köhler in conversation with Selene Wendt. For decades, Adéagbo has developed a practice in minor keys—once marginalized as an eccentric who collects detritus from the alleys of Cotonou, he thinks of his practice as a laboratory for existential questions about human relations, with found objects as protagonists. His assemblages re-integrate what has been excluded or thrown away, transformed into visual storytelling that reveals the significance of his practice as a bridge between cultures.
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13:30–14:00
Stitching Geographies
Naiza Khan in conversation with Selene Wendt about her artistic practice in advance of a performative reading Poems for an Embodied Walk in Venice, which will take place on May 12 at 11:00 ()
This work is an extension of , a series of podcasts exploring embodied mapping as a way to understand relationships between place, history and the body—developed from Khan’s MA at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths. This work has evolved into a space for creative collaborations across fields from around the world. The conversation also highlights the importance of mapping throughout Khan’s artistic practice, as also seen in her seminal video work, 2023.
14:00–15:00
How We Arrived Here
Salah Hassan in conversation with MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons, looking back on the exhibition Authentic/Excentric for the Venice Biennale in 2001 and Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures in 2015.
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15:00–15:30
Sounding In Minor Keys
Siddartha Mitter and Aruna D’Souza reflect on the people, ideas and listening that shaped In Minor Keys and what it means to carry Koyo Kouoh’s vision forward.
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15:30–16:00
Root and Return
Grace Aneiza Ali moderates a conversation between Adama Delphine Fawundu, whose film A Meditation for the Dispersed weaves Atlantic, Mediterranean and Mano River waters as sites of ancestral memory and repair, and LeXander Bryant, whose cyanotypesÌýDirt Road Baby roots diasporic inheritance in Southern soil: the dirt road as archive, as body, as homecoming.
TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
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11:00
: Poems for an Embodied Walk ()
SITE-SPECIFIC PARTICIPATORY WALK
Khan takes five poems that open up the possibility to reflect on historical relations of land struggles but also animate historical memory to inspire future modes of resistance. She invites participants to this gathering, to engage in a reading, and reconstruction of poems, using play and chance to recreate these poems and the geographies they engender.Ìý
This walk will reflect on how histories of dispossession and historical memory find ways to re-emerge in other forms/ gestures, becoming mobilized within local geographies and frameworks.
This performance begins in the garden of .
18:00
: We’re Magic. We’re Real # 3(These Walls)
SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE AT FONDAZIONE MARCHESANIÌý
This durational performance—previously staged at Fisk University’s Cravath Hall with students from Fisk and 91³Ô¹ÏÍø and Nashville’s Afro-diaspora community—will take place along the canal side entrance of Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, including two additional performers of African ancestry. The work implements hair as an identity marker across communities of African descent.
SATURDAY, 16 MAY 2026
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By Invitation only
An Evening of Resonance
Guests gather in the Sonic Listening Room for a Sonic Welcome with MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak, offered in the spirit of In Minor Keys and in memory of Koyo Kouoh.Ìý
The evening continues with a performance of Cantiga del Merolico — a collaboration between Blair School of Music flutist , dancer Emiliano Moncada Zohn, and composer .Ìý
The program closes with a conversation with Campos-Pons, Malak, and curator .
MICRO-RESIDENCY · SATURDAY, 18 MAY–WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY, 2026
Vesna Pavlović
is the. Showing internationally, Pavlović examines photographic representations of political and cultural histories of the cold war era. Recent publication includes Vesna Pavlović, Stagecraft, 2021.
WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY, 2026
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20:00
Searching for a Perfect Sunset (Venice) · Participatory Performance
Join for a guided walk through Venice in search of a perfect sunset. With a Polaroid camera in hand, Pavlović invites us to photograph, write and share a memory. In this meaningful yet futile endeavor, something is lost but a sense of hope, promise and renewal remains.Ìý
MICRO-RESIDENCY · THURSDAY, 21 MAY –SUNDAY, 24 MAY, 2026
Samuel Alexander
Join Sonic Listening Room Sessions with Samuel Alexander and Kamaal Malak. (Dates + Times to be updated)
MICRO-RESIDENCY · MONDAY, 23 MAY – FRIDAY, 29 MAY, 2026
Jana Harper
is a research-based multiplatform artist who transforms the burdens of history through gestures of empathy and reciprocity. Her work addresses topics such as the erosion of democracy, U.S. gun policy, Native American sovereignty, and the Rights of Nature.
TUESDAY, 26 MAY, 2026
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9:00
Song for the Water
—whose works Song for the Water and Ancestor Bulletin are featured in Resonance—i²Ô±¹¾±³Ù±ð²õ as a collaborative participant. Harper and Moss will collaborate in a water performance and ceremony honoring La Laguna and the rivers of the Veneto.Ìý
THURSDAY, 27 MAY, 2026
19:00–21:00
Signals and Matter
What does science carry that art can hold? This session brings together two perspectives on resonance as method and as meaning—asking how we listen across time, distance and discipline.
Signals Across Time: ’s work explores the resonance of history in the American South, tracing signals that persist through memory, archives and lived experience. In Frank’s Shoe Service, she reintroduces Frank Morris’s life and unsolved murder by republishing his shoe shop advertisements in the Louisiana newspaper where they first appeared. As both an artist and director of 91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Dyer Observatory, Ingram examines how artists and astronomers interpret signals—visual, sonic, historical and cultural—that reverberate across time and space. Echoing Galileo’s 1609 observations from the Campanile of St. Mark’s, her work at Dyer reflects a shared impulse across art and science to imagine, observe and record, and to invite public wonder.
On Resonance: A Minor Key of Contemporary Art: , the author of Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality, will discuss the theme of resonance within a wider context. Modern physics played a crucial role in defining the meaning of resonance. Today, however, the concept offers a keyword for a wide range of artistic practices that probe the entangled nature of human and nonhuman entities. What explains the popularity of resonance as an aesthetic concept? And how does it situate contemporary art amid our world of political polarization and environmental emergencies?Ìý