| Abstract | The Venice Art Biennale is nothing if not controversial. This year’s controversies, however, risk overtaking the art – and this is only partly because of the magnitude of the controversies. In this text, while taking into account the controversies, I offer a tracing of a network of ‘waterways’, where politics and water merge. Of course, the water link (‘Venice therefore water’) has always been present in previous Biennale, but has truly exploded this year. I set therefore the geopolitical scene of the Biennale in relation to both art and protests, and move onto a description of the most interesting aquatic emergences for my purposes of thinking geopolitically about an aquatic anthropocene. |
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