Artists set sail for the South Pole, via Venice

On 27 March 2017, the Russian research ship Akademik Ioffe will cast off from the tip of Argentina on a journey to Antarctica. It will be carrying around 100 scientists, artists, visionaries and poets. Art will be created, poetry recited and the meaning and future of life discussed, and there will be more of the same once the only no-mans-land in the world is reached. For Antarctica belongs to no one, under a treaty of 1959 in which the countries of the world promised to keep the continent invi