Solitary Venice by Sylvain Souklaye

"Solitary Venice" is the sonic conclusion of the PUBLIC RESEARCH I conducted in Venice. The PUBLIC RESEARCH was and is still about public space, especially the relationship between tourists and locals existing via capitalism as an untold language. "Solitary Venice" is an expression of Venice at 4 am without tourists, without locals, just the city's emptiness, the nagging brutality of the sea, a dysfunctional ticket machine, and patient seagulls.

Sylvain Souklaye is a multimodal artist interested in sampling intimacies about people who don't belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality.

His performances are a collage of individual memories which are re-enacted for and via the audience.

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