It was created as a necessary workspace for carrying out both theoretical and practical research activities, based on processes of sampling the material sediments of Corte.
All the activities carried out there structurally follow three phases: exploration, archiving, and transformation.

They are conducted with the diverse galaxies orbiting within the Gellner–Mattei world-system of Borcia as the focal point of the research.
They address the forms of life and resources, both tangible and intangible, present at the Former Villaggio Eni.

More generally, the observations and reflections carried out on the levels of space, object, and subject aim to produce new forms of understanding and translation of these systems, planets orbiting around the host of the Former Villaggio Eni.

Sampling activities and elaborations carried out and/or currently in progress:

_Theoria: archival research, observation and theoretical reflection on spaces, objects and subjects of Corte, through frequent visits;

_Habitare: research, collection, and in vitro observation of the sedentary microorganisms inhabiting the Colony of the Former Villaggio Eni;

_Carbón: production of charcoal for various uses, carried out through the traditional local technique of building and maintaining the Pojat;

_Polveri liquide: production of different types of ink based on charcoal;

_Hermenèia: environmental sound recordings and reworking of audio samples with the aim of amplifying the sound environment of the galaxies studied at Corte.

Images (Laura Syrbe and Studio Campione Archive)

First photo gallery: Habitare:exploration and collection

Second photo gallery: Habitare: microscopic photography

Third photo gallery: Carbón, Polveru Liquide

Fourth photo gallery: Hermenèia

also known in art as Fabio Tallo,

born in Sardinia in October 1988, he holds a Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences from the University of Milan. He is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and sound designer.

His artistic research focuses on uncovering the narrative fabrics that envelop his subjects of investigation—whether objects, events, or living beings—and on technological re-domestication.

His process of audio creation favors the capture of environmental sounds, both artificial and natural, and their subsequent re-shaping, from which he derives loops, synthesizers, and rhythmic sections. These are used to develop new languages that allow him to return, in turn, to a collaborative dialogue with his working subjects.

Over the years, Fabio Talloru has had the pleasure of collaborating with various artists and organizations, including Tonino Casula, Fabio Piccioni, Caterina Erica Shanta, Prometheus Lab, Fotoromanzo italiano, Impact Hub Rome, Museo Nivola and Studio Azzurro.

Within Dolomiti Contemporanee and Progettoborca, he has continuously contributed with his work since 2017. In 2020, he launched the project Studio Campione, where he carries out multidisciplinary activities including microscopic photography, organic pigment production, and audio modelling.

Here The Gellner’s Basement Session – IT
Here Studio campione – EN
Here Acusmatopie 1991+2 – IT
Here Acusmatopie 1991+3 – IT
Here Apofenia sedimentaria – IT
Here Sintesi di uno schianto – IT

Born in Padua in 1991
Graduated in Visual Arts from Venice’s IUAV di Venezia, and obtained a Master’s Degree in Eco-Social Design from the Libera Università of Bolzano
Lives and works between Bolzano and London
Media: food
Here Prometheus

Born in Rovigo in 1982
Graduated in Design and Art from the University of Bolzano, MA in Research Architecture at Goldsmith’s College in London
Lives and works in Milan
Media: photography, video, performance

 
Born in Bolzano, in 1985
Graduated in Languages and economic and juridical institutions of East Asia  the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Professor of Artistic Photography a the Art and Design faculty of the Bolzano University.
Lives and works in Bolzano
Media: photography, artist’s book

Born in Rome in 1977.
Lives and works between Milan and Rome.
Media: multimedia.

Here his Glimps on Borca.

Born in Cagliari in 1984
Photographer and Doctor of Architecture
Lives and works between Ile-de-France and Sardinia
Media: photography.

Born in Ravenna in 1990.
Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
Lives and works between Italy and Wien.
Media: installation and site-specific project.

Here his Artwork.

Born in Bologna in 1979.
Graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
Lives and works in Bologna.
Media: installation.

Born in Mirano (Ve) in 1992.
She is attending Venice Academy of Fine Arts.
Lives and works in Venice.
Media: painting, installation, photography.

Born in San Benedetto del Toronto in 1983.
Graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
Lives and works in San Benedetto del Toronto.
Media: painting and installation.

Photo credits: ENI Historical Archive Roma; Gellner Studio; Minoter.

Rob van den Berg

Photo: Giacomo De Donà, Rob van den Berg

Born in Pergola (PU) in 1977.
Founder (2008) e art-director of Sponge ArteContemporanea.
lives and works in Pergola (PU).
Media: performance and drawing.

Born in Montecarlo in 1993
Lives and works between Berlin, Venice and Brasov
Media : vinyl, video, poetry, irony

Born in Milan in 1991.
He attended several Sculpture Academies, and graduated with Silvia Evangelisti in Bologna.
Currently, he is attending the MA, V.Arts, IUAV, Venice.
As a multimedia artist, he’s inspired by Gianni Vattimo’s principles and by the “visual frayings” of the weak thought.

Born in Melzo (MI) in 1991.
Graduated in visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.
Lives and works between Bologna and Milan.
Media: multimedia

Born in Venice in 1964
Graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice
Lives and works in Mestre (VE)
Media: sculpture, installation

Domenico Antonio Mancini

Gifted by Krusciov to Mattei in 1958 to celebrate an oil deal, Misha has entertained audiences for thirty years and, similarly, the artists will read a text relaying the intentions of the founder of the village, while wearing a polygonal bear head, its maximum synthetis. The performer will move on stage in a forest made of television sets, found among the material left behind from the activity of the Colonia, on which images of interviews with Mattei, the only real interpretative tool of the perfomed text, will be shown.

Domenico Antonio Mancini, La versione di Misha part 1
installation, television sets and steel cables, August-September 2015
Colonia, AS Pavilion

Domenico Antonio Mancini, La versione di Misha part 1
work in progress
Colonia, M Pavilion

Photo: DC Archive, Giacomo De Donà, Adriano Zanni

Cleanland is an operation of reduction, it appears minimal, at the limit of what is visible and what is not, and it is inspired for its title by the Edwin A. Abbott book “Flatland“, a tale of a bidimensional world and its social structure.
A strategy is activated, through reduction; if an inhabitant of the three-dimensional world of Spaceland, identifies itself with an inhabitant of the two-dimensional kind, will easily understand that the univers it inhabits isn’t limited to the two dimensions of its world (as happens with the two-dimensional inhabitant when it encounters a sphere, a three-dimensional citizen), and, turning the reduction into extension, will easily be capable of imagining a different universal structure.
Notes on the Village, premises:
– the Village, planned to the tinies detail to be lived, today clearly shows its skeleton.
– the organic architecture of the Colonia is characterised by an articulate distributive system.
– all the buildings are connected through ramps-corridors.
– all the spaces were assiged to specific functions.
– every building has different openings and the antipanic doors lead directly to the woods.
– there are areas outside where the corridors and huge spaces, dwelled inside, disappear in the landscape.
Cleanland appears and disappears as it crosses space; it’s an organism immersed in the environment, taking up room while following its morphology. Cleanland is the visibile and invisible part at the same time.
The crossing morphology is architecture, a stratified one: Mattei, Gellner, Dolomiti Contemporanee.
The layout is a reduction, and like any reduction it shows privileges: the view from above, the planning and organising of the spaces. Crossing over from paper, design, to building and fruition, the dimensions increase.
After I walked through the spaces of the Colonia I’ve identified in the female showers and in parts of the rooms destined to the distribution of clothes my workspace.
In the first phase of my study nothing is going to be touched, I’ll take measurements, I’ll re-design space and objects on the inside, making them a layout and 3D model in scale. I’ll redraw the layout of the Colonia following the edge line.
I’ve decided to utilise a single line to define the Colonia as an individual shape, thus, if there are separate spaces, they won’t be included in the drawing.
I will, then, superimpose the layout of the Colonia to the one of the shower-changing rooms, taking up all the space with the Colonia‘s, until I find the correct orientation. This choice will depend on how the various elements will be handled.

Silvia Hell

Silvia Hell, Cleanland
August-September 2015
Colonia, Female Showers and Changing Rooms

Photos: Giacomo De Donà, Silvia Hell, Stefano Moras

Born in Slovenia
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
He lives and works in Nova Gorica
Media: painting, drawing, sculpture

Born in Cagliari in 1969.
He won several prizes as the Baume & Mercier, Canon, Sony and FNAC.
Lives and works in Milan.
Media: photography, video.

Born in Magenta in 1975.
Graduated in 1999 in painting from the Fine Arts Academy of Brera.
Has a Master in contemporary art communication from the Fine Arts Academy of Brera.
Lives and works in Milan.

Born in Naples in 1980
Graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples
Lives and works in Milan
Media: installation

Here her project in Progettobroca.