# Social Sacrifice, Venice drone show – Drone Stories

> The first indoor drone performance: 100 drones swimming like a school of fish through the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, alongside the Biennale. By Studio…

Source: https://dronestories.com/drone-shows/social-sacrifice-venice/

The first indoor drone performance

# Social Sacrifice, Venice

For the Venice Biennale we did something nobody had done: a drone performance indoors. One hundred drones swam through the Church of San Lorenzo every evening, above the audience, like a school of fish facing a predator.

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| Client | Studio DRIFT · Ocean Space |
| Location | Church of San Lorenzo, Venice |
| Drones | 100 |
| Type | art |

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## The story behind the lights

Social Sacrifice is a Studio DRIFT artwork about collective intelligence: how a school of fish, with no leader, outsmarts a predator by moving as one. The school is white, the predators red, and the light of every drone responds to how tightly the group holds together. Flying it inside a sixteenth-century church, over people's heads, meant rethinking everything we knew about safety, positioning and choreography.

Produced by Drone Stories and SKYMAGIC, co-commissioned by Aorist and TBA21-Academy's Ocean Space, with a soundtrack by Don Diablo. We have flown in Venice several times since, including at the Arsenale.

Impact

## What it did online

Our own posts about Social Sacrifice, Venice on Instagram, and what the audience wrote back.

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| Video views | 14k |
| Likes | 910 |
| Comments | 22 |

* “Great to be collaborating on this project…”

 @skymagicdroneshows · Instagram

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