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THERE IS A VISITOR # 3
R A K E T A & Friends
in Venice, June 4-6
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R A K E T A brings the ongoing project There Is a Visitor to Venice
– a mobile meetingplace hosted by LATCOL - L’Atelier Collaborative

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PROGRAM in brief:

JUNE 4-6, 2009:
Alternative maps of Venice workshops all around the city
Information about time and place will soon be published

JUNE 4, 2009, 8 pm:
FAR NORTH # 2 film screening and live concert
LATCOL - L’Atelier Collaborative Dorsoduro 1709/a, Venice

JUNE 5, 2009, 6.30 - 8.30 pm:
Frank Heron & The Rocket Girls book release
People, music, food and drinks at LATCOL -
L’Atelier Collaborative Dorsoduro 1709/a, Venice
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SEMINARS
There Is a Visitor # 3 takes place during the opening days of
the Venice Biennale - consisting of a short series of seminars
and meetings aiming - in theory and practice to explore alternative
geographies and perceptions of nature.

Together we investigate how our viewpoints, our actions and interactions with the surrounding world are mediated through mental and physical tools, such as art, media, culture, memories, dreams and longing.

Venice, in a vulnerable situation on an edge between culture (city) and nature (water), becomes a symbolic site for R A K E T A’s temporary urban research lab. Venice as a museum, topography, choreography, utopia, an interface between people and city, body and buildings, history and present times.

Can the museum be a street?
A wood, a mountain, an ocean?
Can we ever enter the past or the future?
What is the role of randomness?
The everyday?
Venice as a user manual?

WORKSHOP
There Is a Visitor # 3 also consists of the workshop Alternative
maps of Venice. Together we create an alternative geography,
a space “in-between” which we hope can challenge (and
make use of) the physical conditions defined by the surrounding
environment.

Venice, the city museum
Venice, the dream on the edge of the sea
Venice, yearning for the impossible
Venice, the idea and vision
Everybody Gets Lost in Venice!

FILM & LIVE MUSIC
Thursday, June 4, 8 pm, LATCOL - L’Atelier Collaborative Dorsoduro
1709/a, Venice

In connection to R A K E T A’s visit to the biennale the film
FAR NORTH # 2 (RAKETA FILM PRODUCTION, 2009) is screened and
accompanied live by the electronic musician and composer Mattias
Sköld, and saxophonist Zach Herchen from New York. The
event is organized in collaboration with LATCOL.

BOOK RELEASE
Friday, June 5, 6.30-8.30 pm, LATCOL - L’Atelier Collaborative Dorsoduro
1709/a, Venice

Frank Heron & The Rocket Girls (Roger Connah & Raketa, RAKETA
PRESS, 2009) is presented and released connecting a small exhibition
with the pages of the book in LATCOL’s office. Music,
food and drinks are served!

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Hi Nikos !

I came back to Stockholm this week after staying at your hotel during one week - I wanted to ask you a question - for my filmproject - but I forgot;

have you ever seen snow in Venice?
how does that feel, looks like?
have you ever seen the canals with ice?
scating or skiing on the canals?
on the lsguna?

have you heard stories about that in the past?

Would be ever so happy if you have time to
send me a mail about those questions :D

Best & warm regards :)
/ r a k e t a

Hello,

the last time in Venezia when the canals
were iced was about the 1925 !!!!

There was a strong snow tempest 2 years ago and was great, I send you some pictures.

Nikos
Hotel Doni