The Venice Lagoon, a legal person, Giovanni Pellegrini (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Ocean Space, Venice Biennale 2026)

About this episode

Pietro Consolandi discusses the intersection of art, ecology, and environmental justice through the lens of Giovanni Pellegrini's documentary on the Venice Lagoon.

Researcher, artist, and curator Pietro Consolandi traces the ‘wetland turn’ in art, ecology, and environmental justice, via Giovanni Pellegrini’s 2025 documentary film, The Venice Lagoon, a legal person. Nature Speaks: Listening for Rights of Nature in Venice and Europe is at Ocean Space in Venice until 11 October 2026. The Research Unit, curated by Pietro Consolandi and Amalia Rossi, is co-produced by TBA21–Academy and NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with IDRA (Initiative for the Rights of Water) and the Confluence of European Water Bodies. You can join the next Citizens' Assembly for the Rights of the Lagoon on 10 October 2026. The Venice Lagoon, a legal person (2025) is available to watch online. For more about water bodies in Europe, hear Klima Biennale Wien festival director Sithara Pathirana on climate justice, public space and the rights of the river Danube through Austria, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, in the episode about Superflux’s sculptural installation, Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025): pod.link/1533637675/episode/ZWQ4Mzg0Y2MtMWFkMy00ZmJkLWIyZjUtNGU3MmJmODM2ODEx On the flows between Wales…

People in this episode

Guest: Pietro Consolandi

Topics covered

• environmental justice
• art and ecology
• rights of nature
• Venice Lagoon
• documentary film
• citizens' assembly
• climate justice

Keywords

• Venice Lagoon
• environmental justice
• art
• ecology
• documentary
• rights of nature
• Pietro Consolandi
• Giovanni Pellegrini
• Citizens' Assembly
• climate justice

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TBA21–Academy, NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, IDRA (Initiative for the Rights of Water), Confluence of European Water Bodies

Books & works: The Venice Lagoon, a legal person, Nature Speaks: Listening for Rights of Nature in Venice and Europe, Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream, Habitat

Places: Venice, Wales, Austria, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, Llandudno

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