Throughout  time,  the  myths  of  Venice  were  created  to  foster  their  own identity as an autonomous state harnessing large military, economic, cultural, and religious power in the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. These myths that continued to protect Venice for multiple centuries  have  now  recently  came  back  to  hurt  them  due  to  the  greater influence of recent globalization and climate change.What comes out of this mythological method of viewing Venice is a realization of Venice to be its own hero in its story.

What is assumed to be correct or false depends on the storyteller’s biases, but through a dissective and closer look, these biases could become clearer.

A story contains power.

This power is in some ways manipulative as well as honest, but in attempting to understand it further, each account of the past is confronted.

By  performing  in  Venice,  the  intimacy  that  is  sensed  between  an  anonymous  performer  and  a  viewer  creates  a  moment  of  confrontation.

This sense of vulnerability from the performer’s part and the willingness of the viewer to be present in the performance is a powerful relationship between strangers.

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Through experimentation of materials and form-making, the tensional relationship of myths and stories are spatialized.

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The  atmosphere that is inhabited is affected by the stories that are told in the pavillion. The stories are given the power to break down one sided assumptions that prevail in myths and historical accounts of the past. Atmospheric movement is created with the alteration of air through sound  projection.  Through  storytelling,  strangers  are  made  vulnerable to one another and placed in a moment of intimacy. People in the space are connected through the air; from one breath of a story told to the inhalation of a story heard.

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