The Canadian artists from Reverse Pedagogy weren’t the only ones floating around the Venetian canals in the name of art last week.

Is it a reflection of the returning trend toward urban interventions (thank you VoCA faves Oldenburg and Kaprow) and flashmobs, or a way of modernizing the biennale whose pavilions and divisions along national lines are terribly outdated?

Mike Bouchet’s ‘Watershed’ goes down. Image: bldgblog.blogspot.com

What with the suburban American house (that sank), and the Russian submarine, we wonder what the Italians made of it all.

Artists from Reverse Pedagogy canoeing into Venice. Image: reversepedagogy.com

Alexander Ponomarev’s submarine. Image: nytimes.com