{"id":21227,"date":"2025-11-11T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/public-program-xvedizione\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:44:34","slug":"public-program-xvedizione","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/public-program-xvedizione\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Program XV Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

XV Edition
Never Ground<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Milan, 28 \u2013 30 November 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Public Program, titled Sottosopra<\/em> and curated by Stella Succi\u2014art historian and independent researcher\u2014offers a series of talks, presentations, and encounters spanning art, philosophy, and science to expand and share the research processes behind the exhibited projects.

Sottosopra <\/em>approaches the underground as a perceptive, poetic, and political possibility of the present. Subterranean cavities have sometimes been interpreted as cognitive technologies: penumbra, echo, and the loss of reference points destabilize the senses until they overflow. In suspension and vulnerability, perception reconfigures itself and becomes hyper-receptive. One feels sottosopra (upside down). Sottosopra <\/em>settles in the tunnels beneath the railway tracks: an underground that, like many urban infrastructures, erodes the idea of the surface as a stable boundary. Cavities, conduits, and junctions\u2014high and low do not exist in opposition but as a permeable grid of exchanges. The work that gives the festival its title, Never Ground<\/em> by Nat\u00e1lia Trejbalov\u00e1, takes this notion further, drawing on the nineteenth-century fantasy of a hollow Earth\u2014a hypothesis in which the sky above our heads could be a land beneath other feet, and the ground under our feet another sky: Sottosopra <\/em>ascends and descends a system of internal worlds, interlocked and mutually possible. The underground is also the real one upon which our digital infrastructures depend: a deep geological history inhabits our machines. Sottosopra<\/em>, this text, and the videos on view exist thanks to resources extracted from undergrounds around the world under conditions of violence. Sottosopra <\/em>considers the underground as the cultural trajectory of the subsoil, inviting dialogue between practices and languages that grow at the margins of dominant flows, coexist with the surface, and influence it.
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Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday 28 November<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:00 PM: Exhibition opening<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7:00 PM: Presentation of the Open Call 2025 \u2013 Dialogues from the Underground<\/em>, with:
Francesca Colasante (curator), Sofia Salvatori (winner of the Open Call), Rita Duina (TAB \u2013 Take Away Bibliographies), and Letizia Scarpello (artist and Program Manager at Pollinaria).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 29 November<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201311:00 AM: <\/strong>Tuning for Relationships<\/em> workshop with Sofia Salvatori<\/strong>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Program Sottosopra (Upside Down)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Stella Succi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:30\u20133:30 PM: Sottotesto (Subtext)<\/em>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:30\u20135:30 PM: Sottospecie (Subspecies)<\/em>
Based on scientific research and the artistic and editorial project Never Ground<\/em> by Nat\u00e1lia Trejbalov\u00e1 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 Nat\u00e1lia Trejbalov\u00e1 will discuss the underground as a crossroads between the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial, between deep time and the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:30\u20138:30 PM: Sottofondo (Background)
<\/em>Readings from the underground of Milan with Altalena \u2013 interdisciplinary collective and research group, Annamaria Ajmone \u2013 dancer and choreographer, Sandra Cane \u2013 independent author and researcher, Ivan Carozzi \u2013 writer and author, Attila Faravelli \u2013 sound artist, Frankenstein Magazine, Medusa \u2013 literature and ecology newsletter, and Murmur, contemporary poetry collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday 30 November<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00\u201311:00 AM: <\/strong>Tuning for Relationships<\/em> workshop with Sofia Salvatori<\/strong>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The venue is deeply connected to the theme of the 15th edition: the underground understood as both a physical place and a symbolic threshold\u2014a metaphor for the voices that throughout history have been submerged by structures of power, a gateway to initiatory descents, and a place of metamorphosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On display are works by Nat\u00e1lia Trejbalov\u00e1, Adele Dipasquale, Nicoletta Grillo, and Andrea Mauti.<\/strong>

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XV Edition Video Sound Art Festival<\/strong>
Never Ground<\/em><\/strong>
28 \u2013 30 November 2025
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Location:
<\/strong>Tunnel of Stazione Milano Centrale
Magazzini Raccordati, Milan
Via G. B. Sammartini, 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project\u00a0is supported by the\u2028Italian Council program<\/strong>\u00a0(2024)\u2028promoted by the\u2028Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.<\/strong>

With the support of:
<\/strong>Municipality of Milan

Organization of Regional Importance – With the contribuition of:
<\/strong>Lombardy Region<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Artistic Direction
Laura Lamonea<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public program curated by
Stella Succi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Call curated by
Francesca Colasante<\/em>

Communication and Development
Francesca Mainardi, Federica Torgano <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education
Tommaso Santagostino,<\/em> Thomas Ba<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production
Lino Palena<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Office 
Sara Zolla<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Identity
Gloria Favaro, Nicola Narbone<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ph. 1 Andrea Mauti, Esausta (Voices Voices), Rame, ceneri raccolte dalla cottura degli oggetti in argilla, gesso, ossido di ferro, terra del Parco della Caffarella, carbone, essenza di finocchio prodotta dall’artista, vapore, dimensioni variabilI, 2025. Courtesy the artist, ADA Foto: Luana Rigolli<\/sub>

Ph. 2 Adele Dipasquale, Spirits Talks #1<\/em> (video still), 2022, pellicola super 16mm scansionata in 2K, 1\u201939\u2019\u2019 in loop<\/sup>
Ph.3 Nicoletta Grillo, dalla serie fotografica Due<\/em>, #4, 2025<\/sup>
Ph.4 Nat\u00e1lia Trejbalov\u00e1, Never Ground<\/em>, Full HD video, color, sound, 17 min., 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Produced thanks to the support of the Italian Council (2024).<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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