Programme
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Screening
Screening Program
Ingresso libero, capienza limitata.
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Talk
Nel giorno più piccolo del mondo. Lucia Pescador in conversation with Marta Sironi, Roberto Di Puma and Edizioni Brigantino
The venue hosting the installation “La cucina di Olivia” by Edizioni Brigantino and Lucia Pescador is hosting the launch of the book “Nel giorno più piccolo del mondo”, which focuses on Lucia Pescador’s 2014 exhibition that marked the start of Bonvini 1909’s current activities. The talk will feature a discussion between the artist Lucia Pescador, the curator Marta Sironi, the artistic duo Edizioni Brigantino and the director of Bonvini 1909, Roberto Di Puma.
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Screening
Screening program
Ingresso libero, capienza limitata.
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Talk
Ugo La Pietra in conversation with curator and art critic Marco Meneguzzo
An event centred on the screening of five films created by the artist between 1973 and 1979 — Il monumentalismo, Per oggi basta! (il Commutatore), La riappropriazione della città and Interventi pubblici per la città di Milano (Paletti e catene). Through these works, the discussion explores some of the central themes of La Pietra’s practice: the relationship between the individual and urban space, a critique of the conventions of living, the role of the artist, and the possibilities for transforming the city and everyday life. Booking for the talk includes a screening of the five films La grande occasione, Il monumentalismo, Per oggi basta! (il Commutatore), La riappropriazione della città and Interventi pubblici per la città di Milano (Paletti e catene), scheduled to begin at 6.30 pm.
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Talk
The ghosts of Corvetto. Inside and outside the post-Olympic neighbourhood
Urban anthropologist Laura Raccanelli, in conversation with Rita Duina and Tommaso Santagostino, presents her ethnographic study of the Corvetto neighbourhood, examining the transformations brought about by the Olympic Games and the processes of gentrification that are reshaping the urban landscape. Straddling aesthetics and politics, the talk explores the inequalities that render bodies out of place and listens to the geographies that the neighbourhood continues to produce from the grassroots up.
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Screening
Screening program
Ingresso libero, capienza limitata.
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Talk
Dreaming of Water. A conversation about En Ausencia
Following the screening of En Ausencia, the artist Caterina Erica Shanta will be in conversation with Rita Duina about the film, which was shot in Mexico City amongst the marshes of Xochimilco. At the heart of the film is water as an urban resource that has been taken away, and the dreamlike space as a place for reconstructing collective memory, capable of retracing geographies that are only apparently forgotten.<br/>Booking for the talk includes a screening of the film En Ausencia, scheduled for 3.20 pm.
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Artists Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini in conversation with solo motorist Marco Amoretti on the theme of travel
In 1999, Marco Amoretti and Marcolino De Candia – both in their early twenties – crossed the Atlantic Ocean in two modified cars. Their 119-day journey broke down physical, cultural, political and economic boundaries through an extreme, real and poetic act. Some 20 years later, Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, aboard a small sailing boat towed by a vintage Trabant, crossed the city of Berlin, retracing the route where the infamous Wall once stood until the late 1980s. An imaginary, intimate and understated journey that tells of relationships and memories. The discussion will be moderated by curator Bianca Trevisan, with contributions from Edizioni Brigantino.
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Performance
Surplace Radio performance
Surplace Radio is a performance that takes the form of a radio programme. From a temporary studio, Michele Di Stefano takes on the role of presenter and presents a programme of new releases and ethnomusical imagery, based on *L’altro Hotel*, a recording project produced by Xing for Xong collection – artist records. The work stems from a vast collection of voice memos recorded by the artist whilst travelling around the world, like a catalogue of localised sounds, precise moments of personal experience. The creation of the album involved transforming these recordings into tracks inspired by elusive theories on non-selective listening (‘placed music’ or ‘accanto theory’) and presented in the form of a radio programme now in its fifty-fourth episode. Michele Di Stefano, the presenter, contextualises them according to the conventions of music journalism, evoking forms of non-selective listening, in which sound manifests itself alongside the listener, without necessarily capturing their attention. What emerges is a sonic geography in which distant places, landscapes and everyday situations overlap, whilst reality and fiction become intertwined.
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Screening
Screening program
Ingresso libero, capienza limitata.
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Talk
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine in conversation with Laura Lamonea
Following the screening – an Italian premiere – of *The World in a Square* (2026), Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine will be in conversation with Laura Lamonea about their artistic and cinematic practice and the research they have been conducting for years into architecture and places of habitation. Together with *24 Heures sur Place* (2014), screened the previous day, the film offers a glimpse into public space as a place of encounter, coexistence and transformation. It is an opportunity to explore their approach to cinema, which captures the human, sensory and emotional dimension of architecture through the stories and everyday gestures of those who experience it.<br/>Booking for the talk includes a screening of the film *The World in a Square*, scheduled for 4.20 pm.
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Talk
Spoken Panorama
Spoken Panorama brings the festival to a close by offering a reflection on the discussions that have taken place as part of the public programme. Drawing on the semantic maps on display at the Fondazione Galleria Milano, the artist Cem A., in conversation with Rita Duina and Tommaso Santagostino, will explore the themes and ideas that have emerged during the events, as well as the connections between them. The discussion provides a space for a critical analysis of the bodies of knowledge that have circulated within and through this edition of the festival.