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Ecotongues
2025
Long durational performance included in the project Sonic Investigations, LUXEMBOURG PAVILION – VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2025
45 min
Concept and performance Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
Sound engineering Emanuele Pontecorvo
Curated by Valentin Bansac
Alice Loumeau and Mike Fritsch
Extented Artistic Team Ludwig Berger, Peter Szendy, Pierre Vanni
Produced by La Biennale di Venezia LUXEMBOURG PAVILION – VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2025 Commissioner appointed by the Ministry of Culture Luxembourg Kultur | lx (Arts Council Luxembourg)
Ecotongues explores mediumship as the ability to inhabit the threshold between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, as a performative practice of interspecific intimacy between human and more-than-human entities.
Crossing thresholds and borders, the figure of the medium becomes a living metaphor for ecotones—those porous, unstable territories where two or more ecosystems meet, merge, and give rise to new forms of life.
The voice, constantly shifting between the inside and the outside, is explored as a mediumistic tool: it moves through bodies, vibrating between interior and exterior, giving voice to presences unseen. From this liminal space—fluid, uncertain, ‘wet’—emerge alternative knowledges, often dismissed or marginalized, passed mouth to mouth.