Past edition

XII Edition 2022 — The life of things and the invisible qualities of objects

22–28 September 2022 — Milano

Edition: XII — 2022
Venues: Teatro Carcano
Curated by: Artistic direction and curation Laura Lamonea. Screening Program coordination Bianca Ambrosio. Open Call coordination Francesca Colasante.

After the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale and the Planetario Hoepli, Video Sound Art, a contemporary art festival since 2011, presented its twelfth edition with a programme of installations, videos, performance interventions and a screening programme at the Teatro Carcano. The historic theatre, from the basement to the gallery, showcased the voices of the contemporary for seven days, ranging from video to publishing installations.

Starting with the reflections of the artists in the exhibition and in collaboration with the Dutch publishing project MacGuffin, the festival focused on the unexplored possibilities that each object embodies in relation to history, identity and social relations, attempting to unveil political and social conditioning – the invisible qualities of matter.

Overproduction and resource depletion are transparent entities looming over our heads while the life of things continues to scan our days. There is a world of exchange and circulation of power around objects and of hidden stages that turn out to be much more than mere stages of production. Laura Lamonea, curator of the exhibition.