tufanika
Tufanika is an artist-research collective founded by Amanda Paganini, Erica Garbin, and Sveva Crisafulli—three PhD candidates in Artistic Practice at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, within the inaugural cycle of the OPENSPACE doctoral program (2025-2028). Their individual research spans across the intersections of art and science, oceanic imaginaries, and the political agency of the body, sexuality, and decolonial feminism.
As a collective, Tufanika merges these inquiries into transdisciplinary installations, performances, and speculative narratives that explore fluid ecologies, post-human feminisms, and embodied forms of knowledge. Their work critically engages with notions of water not only as a material source, but as a site of resistance, transformation, and radical futures.
Soon
You will find our work mermaid's purse at the exhibition "Into the Water", which will takes place at Treehouse NDSM at Amsterdam from 18 September to 12 October.
The meaning of the word 'Tufanika'
The name 'Tufanika' is inspired by Acqua Tufanica. 'Acqua' means water in Italian, but Acqua Tufanica was a poison used in the 17th century by women seeking to escape oppressive marriages. Our name is a tribute to resistance against patriarchal power, to the strength of sisterhood, to imagining alternative futures, and to the untamed, liberating force of water.
Disclaimer: we categorically condemn poisoning and all forms of violence — but we do love, fictionally speaking, a good villain.