This is wild. #3, #4, #10, #15, and #17 really caught my eye. It's funny, in the daytime these barges look like strange amalgams of old ship parts and pieces of a slum, but at night the light adds this sort of garish beauty to the whole thing. Wonderful. Side-note: I can not wait to be studying abroad in Italy in two semesters.
Here's a couple articles that sort of describe it: Wired LaughingSquid Its by the artist swoonSwoon and a crew of 30 crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale with "the Swimming Cities of Serenissima," a performance project similar to the Miss Rockaway Armada and the Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea. The crew sailed from Slovenia in rafts made of New York City garbage, as well as one raft made from material scrapped along the coast of Slovenia. The project stopped at various points on the way to meet the locals, collect artifacts for their on-board "cabinet of curiosities" and to prepare for the culminating performance entitled, "The Clutchess of Cuckoo." Once in the Venice Lagoon, the rafts and their company performed throughout Venice nightly and docked at Certosa Island.[1][2] They "barnstormed" the Grand Canal at 3:00 a.m.[3]