Since 2015, 150+ days of sailling through the old city streets and canals...
(read more in "About") Over 150 days/nights of poetical boardings in the streets - We Arrrrr BACK ! P.-)
🇮🇹 Nel corso dei ultimi 19 giorni di Carnevale Lagunare, noi altri “LAGOON PIRATES”, ciurma di sorridenti fantasmi delle calli, abbiamo festeggiato con emozione, ritmi, canti, danze, poesie, riprese cinematografiche,
rispetto ed incontri inaspettati - i nostri 10 anni di esistenza ! Pirati artisti, poeti, musicisti, carpentieri, contorsionisti, spazzini, ballerini, scimmie, corvi, nani, giganti, bambini sperduti, vecchi Maestri veneziani e viaggiatori, Noi siamo stati quì, numerosi e vibranti, il cuor fiamma e il sorriso luna. Carichi dall’esperienza di oltre 150 giorni/notti di coraggiosi arrembaggi poetici in Maschera per le calli di una Venezia d’inverno, siamo oggi più pronti che mai ad affrontare poeticamente le onde di questa prossima tempesta carnevalesca che verrà - e a lei ci offriremo...
🇫🇷 Au Fil des 19 derniers jours de Carnaval Lagunaire, nous autres “LAGOON PIRATES”, souriant équipage de spectres des ruelles, nous avons festoyé avec grande émotion, rythmes, chants, danses, poésies, captations cinématographiques, rencontres inattendues et bien d’autres surprises - nos 10 ans d’existence! Pirates artistes, poètes, musiciens, charpentiers, contorsionnistes, éboueurs, danseurs, singes, corbeaux, nains, géants, enfants perdus et vieux Maestri vénitiens et voyageurs, Nous avons été là, nombreux et vibrants, cœurs flamme et sourires lune.
À présent chargés de l’expérience de plus de 150 jours/nuits de courageux abordages poétiques en Masque dans les espaces publics d’une Venise d’hiver, nous sommes aujourd’hui plus prêts que jamais à affronter les vagues de cette prochaine tempête carnavalesque qui arrivera - et à elle, humblement, nous nous offrirons...
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2015, Venice. Artist, musician & filmmaker, the captain Lazlo LICATA gives birth to a crew of "Lagoon Pirates", assembling an eclectic team of friends - artists, poets, musicians, simple shadows, not so lost children and wise old sailors - to launch forth into the boarding of the worldwide famous but in a way almost dying Carnival. For each edition, the project required more than two months of both artistic and logistic work in various countries and necessitated the participation of more than 40 talented performer-artists coming from all parts of the Planet for the special Carnival events. Turned into living supports of moving artpieces, all the pirates wear special masks, props, marionettes and costumes devised and manufactured by the artist-filmmaker and his crew for the occasion, always paying homage with some modern touch and science-fiction tones to historical Venetian figures and traditional masks and crafts. The crew most common mask for example, is a simple hand-painted "Larva" (wich was part of the ancient "Bauta" costume). Larva in latin means "mask/face" but also "specter", "ghost", "spirit of the dead"...
2 eyes, a little nose and no mouth but a short flat beak... the original shape is always the same but the poetical skulls painted over by the captain are all completely different if you watch them close enough, but like all skulls from afar they seem to look all the same. This mask was originally always black or white, it could be worn by anyone to walk anonymously in the streets of the Serenissima, it was used by men and women, from rich merchants to beggars, and sometimes it was also allowed during the rest of the year. One with that mask could be ANYONE. During the last 8 Venetian Carnivals, and sometimes at other occasions (like the "Festa della Salute", tribute to the deads by the BlackPlague of 1630), the project opened several exhibitions that showed installations full of special artworks as well as video and short-film screenings linked together by a lot of theatrical strollings, creative demonstrations, itinerant concerts, improvised shanties and laguna poems experimented during that period, all over the city as well as its islands. One last important thing. Since 2015, the Lagoon Pirates are pirates, not corsairs nor privateers, but pirates! And of course, that means they are all free people and artists without any "letters of marque and reprisal" or any "license to..." given by any king, lord, mayor, government, bank or company to do what they do. They just do it. And what they do it's many many things - except doing business and earning money. That's just not the point at all for those strange carnival creatures...
In a nutshell, they are a complete autonomous and self-produced crew and no one on earth and cosmos could say "I bought them". In fact, maybe it's also because they have no price that they are such a priceless authentic and free poetical presence for the venetian true Carnival...
