XIV Edition 2024 — Houses : Homes

VIDEO SOUND ART presents the 14th edition of the festival, entitled Houses: Homes, scheduled from October 24-27, 2024 with an exhibition project spread across various venues: a square, a recreational club, historic stores and stores, adjacent to Piazza San Luigi in Milan’s Lodi Corvetto neighbourhood.

Through installations by Italian and international artists and a dense public program of panel discussions and performances, the festival will explore various facets related to the theme of housing: from material aspects such as the right to housing and the ambiguous consequences of gentrification (currently more than ever in the neighbourhood that will host the festival), to symbolic issues such as the sense of belonging to a community or its denial. The two sides of the coin, then, of housing: the architectural and material apparatus (“houses”) and the symbolic and affective one (“homes”).

The artistic program presented by Video Sound Art will see Circolo San Luis as one of its main venues. Circolo San Luis will host the research of Iranian artist Arash Fayez, with a layered installation that dialogues with some elements of the hosting space, such as the counter, the bulletin boards, and the billiard table. Continuing the festival’s well-established tradition of collaboration with independent publishing realities, this year Video Sound Art chooses to collaborate with Arabpop, a magazine dedicated to contemporary arts and literature from Arab countries. The 14th edition will present a brand new installation developed from issue n. 4 of the magazine, entitled CASA [an Italian word that merges the meaning of the Enligh terms “house” and “homes”].