Public Program XV Edition

On the occasion of the Festival’s 15th edition, titled Never Ground, from 28 to 30 November 2025, Video Sound Art presents a program of meetings, talks, and presentations open to the public—a space for dialogue and speculative experimentation, exploring the connections between art, philosophy, and science to expand and share the research processes behind the projects on display.

Program

Friday 28 November

6:00 PM: Exhibition opening

7:00 PM: Presentation of the Open Call 2025 – Dialogues from the Underground, with:
Francesca Colasante (curator), Sofia Salvatori (winner of the Open Call), Rita Duina (TAB – Take Away Bibliographies), and Letizia Scarpello (artist and Program Manager at Pollinaria).

Saturday 29 November

10:00–11:00 AM: Tuning for Relationships workshop with Sofia Salvatori
The workshop offers practices of inner listening, sensory activation, and spatial exploration, focusing on perception in the dark. Guided by the voice of Sofia Salvatori, participants will engage in a process of sensory reorganization in which sight is temporarily excluded.

Public Program Sottosopra (Upside Down)

Curated by Stella Succi

2:30–3:30 PM: Sottotesto (Subtext)
A conversation between writer, curator, and Mousse Editor-in-Chief Barbara Casavecchia, historian of philosophy and writer Paolo Pecere, and artist Luca Trevisani on the relationship between the arts and the underground over time, from prehistoric forms of expression to contemporary practices and imaginaries.

4:30–5:30 PM: Sottospecie (Subspecies)
Based on scientific research and the artistic and editorial project Never Ground by Natália Trejbalová and Stella Succi, published by Mousse Publishing and produced by VSA with the support of the Italian Council 2024 of the Ministry of Culture, microbiology researcher and lecturer Martina Cappelletti, speleologist Francesco Sauro, and artist Natália Trejbalová will discuss the underground as a crossroads between the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial, between deep time and the future.

6:30–8:30 PM: Sottofondo (Background)
Readings from the underground of Milan with Altalena – interdisciplinary collective and research group, Annamaria Ajmone – dancer and choreographer, Sandra Cane – independent author and researcher, Ivan Carozzi – writer and author, Attila Faravelli – sound artist, Frankenstein Magazine, Medusa – literature and ecology newsletter, and Murmur, contemporary poetry collective.

Sunday 30 November

10:00–11:00 AM: Tuning for Relationships workshop with Sofia Salvatori
The workshop offers practices of inner listening, sensory activation, and spatial exploration, focusing on perception in the dark. Guided by the voice of Sofia Salvatori, participants will engage in a process of sensory reorganization in which sight is temporarily excluded.

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This year, the Festival once again reaffirms its mission to explore the relationship between contemporary art and exhibition spaces outside the usual circuits, choosing a new venue in the city of Milan: the Magazzini Raccordati, located in the tunnels of Central Station.

The venue is deeply connected to the theme of the 15th edition: the underground understood as both a physical place and a symbolic threshold—a metaphor for the voices that throughout history have been submerged by structures of power, a gateway to initiatory descents, and a place of metamorphosis.

On display are works by Natália Trejbalová, Adele Dipasquale, Nicoletta Grillo, and Andrea Mauti.

XV Edition Video Sound Art Festival
Never Ground
28 – 30 November 2025

Location:
Tunnel of Stazione Milano Centrale
Magazzini Raccordati, Milan
Via G. B. Sammartini, 38

Free admission with registration.
To access the exhibition and the talks, please select an available time slot. Registration for the talks includes access to the exhibition, and vice versa.
Cultural mediation is available every hour.

Opening hours:
Friday 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Saturday 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

The project is supported by the
Italian Council program (2024)
promoted by the
Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

With the support of:
Municipality of Milan

Organization of Regional Importance
Lombardy Region

Artistic Direction
Laura Lamonea

Public program curated by
Stella Succi

Open Call curated by
Francesca Colasante 

Education
Thomas Ba, Laura Lamonea

Production
Lino Palena

Press Office 
Sara Zolla

Communication and Development
Francesca Mainardi, Federica Torgano 

Visual Identity
Gloria Favaro