Swoon and a motley crew of collaborators didn't need an invitation to show at the Venice Biennale they just went and did it. They built rafts from reclaimed detritus sailed the Adriatic and invaded the Worlds most prestigious Biennale (with a little help from Jeffrey Deitch)
I dreamed of doing this sort of thing myself but from across the land, I may yet still obtain the $150'000 budget Swoon raised to realise this project. The whole venture is a Utopian tale of collaboration, from raising the funding to negotiating the waterways a 30 strong team of determined individuals achieved something quite remarkable.
Read Vanessa Grigoriadis article on the project here
Visit Swoons project website here
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