Resonance, presented by the Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice (EADJ), Vanderbilt University. On view 10 May – 10 July 2026 at Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, Dorsoduro, Venice.
Artistic Directors: María Magdalena Campos-Pons & Kamaal Malak
Curators: Grace Aneiza Ali and Selene Wendt
Exhibition Design: Pure Object
Photos by Joe Habben
Throughout the Venice Biennale 2026 opening week, acclaimed Vanderbilt Faculty members Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak (KaMag) shared immersive performances including Whispering in III Movements and Poetry Caravan, transforming the Biennale grounds into a living site of collective reflection, healing and artistic communion.
Photos by Olivia Forrester.
CULTURALEE article written by Lee Sharrock.
Throughout the Venice Biennale 2026 opening week, acclaimed Vanderbilt Faculty members Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak ( KaMag ) shared immersive performances including Whispering in III Movements and Poetry Caravan, transforming the Biennale grounds into a living site of collective reflection, healing and artistic communion.
Photo by LeXander Bryant.
HYPERALLERGIC article written by Greta Rainbow.
MAY 10, 2026
Resonance opens with a full day of listening, in all forms. Led by EADJ founder María Magdalena Campos-Pons, artists, scholars, curators, and Venetians spent a day in conversation: on image and archive, on practice and inheritance, on water and soil and what the body carries across geographies.
Some of the most important voices in contemporary art — among them Deborah Willis, Georges Adéagbo, Naiza Khan, Salah Hassan, Siddartha Mitter — gathered in one room for conversations including What the Image Carries, Stitching Geographies, How We Arrived Here, Sounding In Minor Keys, and Root and Return.
Photos by LeXander Bryant.
MAY 12, 2026
A durational performance by acclaimed artist Jeannette Ehlers, with Shari Petti and Ella Myers.
Photos by Olivia Forrester.
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2026
An Evening of Resonance
Members of the Vanderbilt Community gather for a Sonic Welcome with Vanderbilt Faculty, Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak, offered in the spirit of In Minor Keys and in memory of Koyo Kouoh.
The evening continued with a performance of Cantiga del Merolico — a collaboration between Blair School of Music flutist Molly Barth, dancer Emiliano Moncada Zohn, and composer Ricardo Zohn Muldoonon.
The program closed with a conversation with Campos-Pons, Malak, and curator Dan Cameron.
The Vanderbilt Community continued gathering the following morning with a private tour of the In Minor Keys exhibition at the Giardini della Biennale to see the artworks that Dr. Campos-Pons and Malak contributed to the project.
Photos by Vito Poma.
MAY 20, 2026
A participatory performance with Vesna Pavlović, Vanderbilt Faculty and Paul E. Shwab Chair in Fine Arts.
Photos by Vesna Pavlović and the EADJ Team.
MAY 26, 2026
Vanderbilt Department of Art faculty member Jana Harper, whose works Song for the Water and Ancestor Bulletin are featured in Resonance, presented a short participatory program honoring La Laguna and the waters of the Veneto.
Photos by Olivia Forrester.
MAY 28, 2026
What does science carry that art can hold? This session brings together two Vanderbilt faculty member perspectives—Jessica Ingram (Dyer Obervatory) and Lutz Koepnick (German Studies and Cinema & Media Arts)—on resonance as method and as meaning and asking how we listen across time, distance and discipline.
Photos by Olivia Forrester.
JUNE 16, 2026
A discussion and performance led by Vanderbilt University's Department of History of Art and Architecture and the minor in Museum and Market Studies.
Photos by Olivia Forrester.
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