Hero Image: WETSOUND Dunga Swamp, Venice Agreement Kisumu, 2026. Photo: Caroline Vitzhum

As part of the Action Site! Public Programme at Fondazione Marchesani, Venice.

Saturday 14 November

11:30 - 13:00

Live event at Fondazione Marchesani and live radio transmission with No Stress Radio

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A WaterLANDS, We Are Here Venice, The Venice Agreement on Peatlands and Sensing Peat / Michael Succow Foundation collaboration.

Excerpts from WETSOUND ~ listening to swamps for imagining otherwise, mobile radio station in Dunga Swamp during the Third Venice Agreement Global Workshop Kisumu, Kenya, June 2026. Live contributions by artists, ecologists, researchers, poets and activists including Dianna Kopanski (Global Peatlands Initiative), Jane da Mosto (We Are Here Venice), Joshua Elukut Amaitum (FAO), Laura Harrington (WaterLANDS), Pietro Consolandi (TBA21) and Suza Husse (Sensing Peat/Michael Succow Foundation).

Through documentary formats, sound art, music and storytelling, WETSOUND attunes to peatlands as spaces of deep cultural, ecological, and ethical resonance: an invitation to listen deeply into the swamps’ complex, more-than-human communities of water, plants, fungi, animals, and ancestral sediments. On the occasion of the WaterLANDS Action Site! in Venice

On the occasion of the WaterLANDS Action Site! in Venice, co-organisers and members of The Venice Agreement on Peatlands (VA), a global network of peatland custodians amplifying local initiatives and transdisciplinary environmental practice, interweave voices from different wetlands around the world. In conversations extending from WaterLANDS and from excerpts of WETSOUND Kisumu, the radio program connects the Venice lagoon, where the VA began in 2022, with the papyrus peatland Dunga Swamp in Kenya.

WETSOUND Dunga Swamp is an initiative by Sensing Peat/Michael Succow Foundation, The Venice Agreement on Peatlands, Ecofinder Kenya, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi (Institute for Multispecies Singing), Radio Nam Lolwe, pantea and Associació So, Soundcamp Cooperative. https://theveniceagreement.net/wetsound.html

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Image: WETSOUND Dunga Swamp, Venice Agreement Kisumu, 2026. Photo: Suza Husse/Sensing Peat

Italian:

Una collaborazione tra WaterLANDS, We are here Venice ETS, The Venice Agreement on Peatlands e Sensing Peat / Michael Succow Foundation.

Estratti da WETSOUND ~ listening to swamps for imagining otherwise, stazione radio mobile nella palude di Dunga durante il terzo Venice Agreement Global Workshop a Kisumu, Kenya, giugno 2026. Interventi in diretta di artisti, ecologisti, ricercatori, poeti e attivisti, tra cui Dianna Kopanski (Global Peatlands Initiative), Jane da Mosto (We Are Here Venice), Joshua Elukut Amaitum (FAO), Laura Harrington (WaterLANDS), Pietro Consolandi (TBA21) e Suza Husse (Sensing Peat/Michael Succow Foundation).

Attraverso format di tipo documentaristico, arte sonora, musica e narrazione, WETSOUND si sintonizza con le torbiere, che diventano spazi di profonda risonanza culturale, ecologica ed etica: un invito ad ascoltare attentamente le complesse comunità “oltre l’umano” delle paludi, composte da acqua, piante, funghi, animali e sedimenti antichi.

In occasione di WaterLANDS Action Site! a Venezia, i co-organizzatori e i membri del Venice Agreement on Peatlands (VA), una rete globale di custodi delle torbiere che amplifica le iniziative locali e la pratica ambientale transdisciplinare, intrecciano le voci provenienti da diverse zone umide di tutto il mondo. Attraverso conversazioni che prendono spunto da WaterLANDS e da estratti di WETSOUND Kisumu, il programma radiofonico collega la laguna di Venezia, dove il VA ha avuto inizio nel 2022, con la torbiera di papiro Dunga Swamp in Kenya.

WETSOUND Dunga Swamp è un’iniziativa promossa da Sensing Peat/Fondazione Michael Succow, The Venice Agreement on Peatlands, Ecofinder Kenya, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi (Institute for Multispecies Singing), Radio Nam Lolwe, pantea e Associació So, Soundcamp Cooperative.

https://theveniceagreement.net/wetsound.htm