Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part in the Nouveau Grand Tour program, a cultural project stemmed from the Quirinal Treaty, signed by Presidents Macron and Draghi in November 2021.

The pact aims to strengthen relations between Italy and France in several areas, in a framework of strengthened bilateral cooperation which includes culture, art, and ecology.

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The project is developed and managed by the Institut Francais d’Italie
(IFI) / Italian French Embassy.

The program is reserved for under-30 French and German artists, and is developed through a network of artistic residencies scattered throughout the Italian territory.

In Dolomiti Contemporanee’s case, the residency takes form in progettoborca (former eni village of corte di cadore, BL), and will take place in October 2022.

List of participating residencies:

Patrons:
OFAJ (Office Franco Allemand pour la Jeunesse) – Ardian France

Residencies:
Base - Casa degli Artisti - Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa - Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte - Museo Capodimonte - Palazzo Butera - Palazzo Monti - Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore - Casa del Circo Contemporanea - Centro Teatrale Umbra - Corte Ospitale - Cross - Palazzo Grenoble - Oriente Occidente – Spazio Fattoria – Artinvita - Dolomiti Contemporanee/Progettoborca - Kulturfactory – Landworks - RAMDOM - Villa Lena – Wonder Grottole

On Wednesday November 18th, 2020, Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part in the online conference promoted by the Courmayeur Mont Blanc Foundation alpi partecipate. montagne in mostra (Participated alps. Mountains on display).

The speech by G. D’incà Levis, ideator and curator of dolomiti contemporanee, is titled Dolomiti Contemporanee, a creative reactivation strategy for heritage and territories.
the meeting is set for 5:30 PM on wednesday november 18th.

The conference focuses on the mountain environment as a place of cultural involvement. the workshop-like nature of the alps eases the cultural approaches of modernity, and the conference, with a new formula, designed to be enjoyed at a distance, proposes a few examples of them.

Three meetings spread out over three different evenings exploring, respectively, the regenerative actions of artistic installations and temporary exhibits in some symbolic locations inside the Dolomites, a cultural device meant for the civic participation inside a huge fort in the alto adige area and a contemporary art museum at the heart of the grisons.

They are places found in the alpine region, and they are characterised by a strong identity ‒ despite their location relative to major cities ‒ in which architecture takes on the role of an important instrument, useful to create a debate.

The widespread perception, during this complex period of human history, is that the mountain is a safe place from a health standpoint, as it allows for easy distancing.

A different audience ‒ typically used to frequenting other destinations ‒ and demanding from a cultural point of view as well, could then look at the alps as a way to search for new stimulation and enrichment.

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Click here to watch G. D’Incà Levis‘ speech on YouTube. [ITA]

Clock here to rewatch each lecturer’s speech. [ITA]

Prometheus- Open Food Lab is a project whose aim is to generate, recover and redistribute knowledge relating to food.
The eventulal goal is to support resilience in remote areas, starting from the secluded spaces of our mind.
Food isn’t just nourishment, a mere survival too. What interests us is, first and foremost, its function of social catalyst and cultural “supplement”. It is able to change the perpective with which we look at the world, it is capable of flipping over the frameworks of meaning that relegate places to remoteness. Remoteness as a mental state. We will explore these locations of the mind and culture as if they were another planet entirely. We’re transdimentional explorers in this space that is both virginal and yet already violated in the most intimate meaning of the word. We look for intelligent life forms that may be able to generate intelligent forms of life.
Intermittent memories of ancient civilizations tell us that there was life here, before ski resorts and tourism of intermittent people with no memory at all. The space was emptied by the heap of clichés which drags itself along the plains below its own tedious bulk, then crumbles and flattens like an avalanche. It presents itself naked, and ready to be filled, once more, in this vacation. There, where rock, lighter, soars towards the sky.
The question is, rather: are we ourselves ready or could be still be, when the only sensible thing to do will be to give a meaning, once more, to these remote places, which are actually close to us, because they are only remote in our mind? Will we still have ourselves meaning at that point, or will we be able to only rely on our senses? Too late, then, to be explorers?
Explorers, revolutionaries and spirits of times long gone refuse the plains and sense the weight of those places where gravity loses its intensity without making the steps of people wishing to climb on them lighter.
We will make these locations our base of operations, a launch pad of future, and plenty in number, explorations, thanks to Dolomiti Contemporanee, which has agreed to lend us the structures of Progettoborca to undertake our training.

Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun, January 2018

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Expedition #1, February 3rd – 6th 2018

The first team of explorers includes:

Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun, creator of the project.

Angelica Stimpfl, presswoman and engraver with great cognizance of food. She tells stories that seem to come from a different time, and cooks fatty dishes of the Trentino Region tradition, with a little something added to them.
She builds tree houses and plans to repopulate her birth village in the Non Valley.

Giulia Fassina
Brilliant photographer and videomaker. Friend and travel companion, I could not think of a better person to document this endeavour. Not least of all because she probably would have held a grudge if I hadn’t asked her. Very picky and wary in the dietary field: it will be a lot of fun to have her taste whatever we’re going to concoct.

Matteo Ghigino
Young chef from Sardinia (more specifically Carloforte) with a great talent. He has taught me the majority of what I know, and most of all to eat leaves. Colleague and companion in adventures tethering on the edge of food poisoning. He has a blog about wild and forgotten foods. We work together on the AmiDO project, which gathers chef and producers of local delicacies..

On Saturday, April 1st 2017, Dolomiti Contemporanee proposes an Open-studio at the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore.
During the course of the afternoon, two works in particular will be showcased: Peak, by Nicolò Degiorgis, and INTHEMOUNTAINS, by Giorgio Orbi.

The collaboration between Museion and DC icludes the presentation of the Peak artist in Borca.
The magazine will be installed onto a structure inside the woods around the Colonia.

The pictures of the peaks follow one another, brought together two by two – from the absolute blackness of the night views to the blinding brightness of the snowy summits – recounting the principle of cyclicality that governs the lives of the mountains.

INTHEMOUNTAINS is a project with a wide scope, which gathers many of Giogio Orbi‘s experiences in regards to alpinism, and brings them to Borca.

It’s a series of operations that take part in the Dolomites of the Cadore area, and inside the neighbouring territories through different mediums, and which give shape to an organic kind of reflection.

INTHEMOUNTAINS ponders over the role of the artist and of the evolutionary dialogue that they intend to prompt with the mountain and its landscape. An essential role to depict and welcome the transformations and mutations of the contemporary mountain.

Mountains look so beautiful that once you start looking at them you can’t stop. A glance lasts only a moment but it takes part of the whole metamorphosis.

The title of the project comes from a section of the poem The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, written in 1922.

a 11-hour projection set
no humans allowed
troubles with cold?

A project by Mattia Pajè
A production by Progettoborca / Dolomiti Contemporanee

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Movie youtube sci-fi/horror selection by Gianluca D’Incà Levis:

- The Snow Creature, W. Lee Wilder, 1954

- The Brain Eaters, Bruno Vesota, 1958

- Battle Beyond the Sun, 1959, T. Colchart (a.p. F. F. Coppola)

- Battle of the Worlds, Claude Rains, 1961

- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Joseph Green, 1964

- The Day Of The Triffids, Steve Sekely, 1963

- The Earth Dies Screaming, Terence Fisher , 1964

- Space: 1999, Another Time, Another Place, David Tomblin, 1974

- Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, Gli Extraterrestri Torneranno, Harald Reinl, 1979

- Frogs, George McCowan, 1972

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Thanks to Nathan H. Juran, The Brain from Planet Arous, 1957

Thanks to the newly forged collaboration between H-FARM and Progettoborca in August the Digital Summer Camp is moving inside the former Eni Village.

During the two Camping weeks, kids aged 10 to 15 will become the main leads of the Village itself, and will be called to explore, enhance and reinvent it. A wonderful occasion, this one, to experiment with the tools of the digitals, while interacting with art and nature.

Through activities of geocaching those taking place in the Camp will make direct contact with the location, and will discover its secrets and stories. Like small artisans, they’ll dabble in the process of guided artistic creation, letting the surrounding setting inspire them and collaborating with the artists currently taking part in the Residency program. Here they’ll tinker, create 3D models, learn to use simple electronic components (LittleBits) able to connect the physical and virtual worlds, or will have fun recreating the environment around them in the virtual world of Minecraft.

For two weeks, then, kids and young adults will have the opportunity to live a unique experience, in touch with nature and dedicated to experimentation and discovery.

Find out more about the Dolomites Digital Camp here and here.

Info and bookings:
H-CAMPUS/H-FARM via Sile, 41
31056 Roncade (Tv)
www.h-farm.com
www.h-campus.com
info@h-farm.com/info@h-campus.com

info@progettoborca.net
info@dolomiticontemporanee.net

In July, the association Archim – Archivists in Movement – will be present in the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of Borca, where, from July the 18th through the 24th, it will lead a week of summer school. Those who will take part in the workshop are going to organize an asset of documents recovered in the Colonia, this huge archive of the past which, every day, returns stories, memories, and all kinds of materials that, through the practices of order and creativity, are taken away from the dust and reprocessed instead.
The retrieval of the documentary asset, other than bringing back to light an archival heritage never before organized, will also involve several artists currently taking part in the residency program in Borca with Dolomiti Contemporanee: a creative order, then, and, as always, a twining of fluxes.

The objective of the summer school, thus, isn’t limited to the mere archival technique, but aims instead to the creation, during the week of stay, of a professional and human network that is both stimulating and striving for improvement, in the mesmerizing cultural context of the former Eni VIllage and Progettoborca.

The scientific coordinator of the summer school is Francesco Antonion, cofounder of the Virginia Associated Studio, which mostly deals with contemporary and business archives, as well as the design and handling of documentary, management, enhancement and industrial heritage safeguard fluxes.

July the 16th through the 23rd
Curated by: Simone Cametti
Directed to the students of the RUFA Academy of Rome

Training people through relations and direct experience. By using theoretical tools and an approach open to active dialogue and confrontation, this workshop has the aim to lead its pupils to the development of a higher understanding and depth of thought on the usage of the “site specific” artistic practice, learning to face all the theoretical and practical matters which involve it on a relevant level. From being able to adjust the formal perfomance of the piece to its conceptual side, designing an installative project in all its parts, to being able to account its characteristics in the writing of a short synopsis. From doing research on the contents of a location to the adaptation of that experience to one’s own path of artistic research.
The teacher will have the pupils design and develop the pieces inside the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) in the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore; an extraordinary and unique site in Italy, in which the relationship between the strong aspects of the natural landscape and environment fuse together in a spectacular fashion via architecture and practices, keeping the relationship betwen history and action as a focal point.
The workshop will thus be focused on the idea of site specific art, but will favour the most abstract and less tangible side of things, having the pupils interact in a context where thoughts and ideas are the focal point of the finished work, rather than materials.

Benedetto Croce, in his Compendium of Aesthetics, interprets the artwork as a kind of “lyrical intuition”, noticeably set apart from a second phase of its own, which is nothing but its translation into a medium, that is to say a material, physical vessel, part of the world and of one or several techniques.
Then the artwork, from this perspective, is something private, something that happens in the mind of the artist before it takes a shape distinguishable for our senses via its own means.
If Croce speaks of indentity of intuition and expression, it still means the expression not as material means, but as the linguistic shape that the piece inevitably takes in light of its being conceived inside the mind, thus setting this mental medium apart from the material one.

Here a list of the participants:
Sara Carmignani, Elena Castiglia, Priscilla Contesini, Chiara Fantaccione, Alessio Ferri, Bruno Lorenzon, Livia Oliveti, Giulia Saccà, Elisa Selli, Daniele Sciacca.

On Saturday July the 9th, 2016, then, starting from 8 PM, the new Open-Studio by Progettoborca will take place. The public will thus be able to visit some of the main structures of the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore where, for the past two years, DC has been leading a platform of regeneration of the extrordinary compound, built in the tail end of the 50s and based on a project by Edoardo Gellner, thanks to Enrico Mattei’s vision. The Village is at the centre of an experimental program of identity redefinition and unification - Progettoborca - which is developed by DC in collaboration with Minoter, the business that currently owns the site.

On Saturday, July the 9th, starting from 3 PM, it will be possible to explore the huge Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) first, then the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore. During the visit to the Colonia, some artworks realized through the Artist Residency program active in the village will be presented; their underlying theme will be “Patches and Gardens”. Some teachers and students from the Fine Arts Academy of Venice are involved in this artistic endeavour.

At 6:30 PM, at the Bear’s Cage, one of the most astonishing structures of the compound,  the musical performance ”Playing in the Cage“ by the New Landscapes Trio, which is composed by Silvia Rinaldi (Baroque recorder), Luca Chiavinato (Baroque lute and oud), Francesco Ganassin (bass clarinet), will take place.

Here the playlist:

improvvisazione, Hijaz Car Kurd
Le Vojage, L. Chiavinato
Rumors, F. Ganassin
Lachrimae, J. Dowland
THE DREAM, J. Cage
Halab, L. Chiavinato
Gnossienne, E. Satie
Walqissat Min Alnnahl, L. Chiavinato
Parfum De Gitane, A. Brahem
Izmir, F. Ganassin

Photos: Nicola Noro, Catia Schievano

We’d like to sincerely thank the Borca di Cadore Municipality, already a Progettoborca partner, which is actively contributing to the realization of the event.

Photo: Giacomo De Donà

In conjunction with the Cadore’s Culture Week, Saturday, May the 14th 2016 Progettoborca hosts a new Open-Studio.

The tour will allow for the access inside the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building), overall the largest structure of the Village (30.000 square meters), abandoned for about 25 years, and now pivot of a recovery program launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee and Minoter in 2014. The public will thus be able to discover this frozen architectural giant, which today houses a lively artistic and artistic hub, and whose future purposes are being envisioned.

Thanks to the visit, it will thus be possible to retrace the unique backgound of this site, wanted by Enrico Mattei and realized by Edoardo Gellner, so important in the history of cultural and business innovation in Italy. And it will also be possible to dwell on the pieces realized by the artists currently taking part in the Residency program active inside the Village, discovering the active labs in the compound.

The Open-Studio will be held from 3 to 5 PM.

After the tours, visitors will be able to reach the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore (Edoardo Gellner/Carlo Scarpa).

Participation is free of charge.

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The Cadore’s Culture Week is taking place between the 7th and 15th of May, and is promoted by the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore together with the Cadore’s Dolomites’ Museum Network, in collaboration with the Veneto Region, the Tiziano and Cadore Study Centre Foundation, the GAL Altobellunese, the Belluno Province, the Philological Society of the Friuli and the Archaeological Group of the Cadore.

An open studio by progettoborca. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

On Thursday, March the 24th the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public, with an open studio by Progettoborca.
During the visit, which is going to last about two hours in lenght, it will be possible to explore this fantastic architectural creation by Edoardo Gellner, discovering the pieces realized by the artists in Borca.
Indeed, we’d like to remind that the Village has been, for over one year, the setting of an international artistic Residency program (here the artists involved, and their artworks).
Starting from 4 PM, it will be possible to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

We’ll met at 2 PM at the Offices/Bookshop of Dolomti Contemporanee, inside the Village.
How to get there >>

An open studio by Progettoborca. Photo: Giacomo De Donà

On Friday, January the 8th the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public, with an Open-studio by Progettoborca.
During the visit, which is going to last about two hours in lenght, it will be possible to explore this fantastic architectural creation by Edoardo Gellner, discovering the pieces realized by the artists in Borca.
Indeed, we’d like to remind that the Village has been, for over one year, the setting of an international artistic Residency program (here the artists involved, and their artworks).
Starting from 4 PM, it will be possible to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

We’ll met at 13:45 PM at the Offices/Bookshop of Dolomti Contemporanee, inside the Village.
How to get there >>

An open studio by progettoborca. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

On Tuesday, January the 5th the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public, with an Open-studio by Progettoborca.
During the visit, which is going to last about two hours in lenght, it will be possible to explore this fantastic architectural creation by Edoardo Gellner, discovering the pieces realized by the artists in Borca.
Indeed, we’d like to remind that the Village has been, for over one year, the setting of an international artistic Residency program (here the artists involved, and their artworks).
Starting from 2 PM, it will be possible to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

We’ll met at 11 AM at the Offices/Bookshop of Dolomti Contemporanee, inside the Village.
How to get there >>

An open-studio by Progettoborca. Photo: Giacomo De Donà

On Sunday, November the 22nd the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public.
Starting from 2 PM it will be possible to explore Gellner’s architectural creations, and get to know the artworks that have been realised on-site by the artists who took part in the international Residecy program at the Village.
The visit to the Colonia will last around two hours.
At 4 PM, we will move to the Chuch of Our Lady of the Cadore, also open for the occasion.

We’ll met at 2 PM at the Offices/Bookshop of Progettoborca, at the Village, in via Mattei 5.
How to get there >>

One of the latest open studios of Progettoborca. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

On Sunday November the 1st the Colonia of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public.
Starting from 3 PM it will be possible to explore Gellner’s architectural creations, and get to know the artworks that have been realised on-site by the artists who took part in the Residecy program at the Village with Progettoborca, a project for the requalification of the site, launched by Dolomti Contemporanee in the summer of 2014.
The visit will last around two hours.

We’ll met at 3 PM at the Offices/Bookshop of Progettoborca, at the Village, in via Mattei 5.
How to get there >>

One of the latest open studios of Progettoborca. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

On Saturday October the 31st the Colonia of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public.
Starting from 3 PM it will be possible to explore Gellner’s architectural creations, and get to know the artworks that have been realised on-site by the artists who took part in the Residecy program at the Village with Progettoborca, a project for the requalification of the site, launched by Dolomti Contemporanee in the summer of 2014.
The visit will last around two hours.

We’ll met at 3 PM at the Offices/Bookshop of Progettoborca, at the Village, in via Mattei 5.
How to get there >>

External shot of one of the Colonia‘s ramps, half-buried by the hypertrophic forest of the Village. Photo by Sergio Casagrande

On Friday October the 30th, on the occasion of the celebration of our friends over at Proviaggiarchitettura‘s first twenty years, Dolomiti Contemporanee (DC) offers an event at the central headquarters of the IUAV University, in Venice: the Tolentini complex.

At 4 PM, on Friday the 30th, at the Auditorium, Progettoborca, the platform of enhancement and functional redefinition of the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, and in particular of its, to this day, non-utilized parts (like the Colonia, or summer camp building), active since 2014, will be presented.
Many will intervene in the event, among which the curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee, a representative of Minoter, the society that currently owns the site, some IUAV teachers (architecture and visual arts), some teachers, artists and students from the Fine Arts Academy of Venice and the Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, two Venetian partners already at work on DC and Progettoborca‘s active sites.

Today, in the Village of Borca, an international residency is currently active, hosting dozens of artists from all over Europe.
In this extraordinary site, built from the 50s onwards thanks to the innovative due Enrico Mattei-Edoardo Gellner, all the activities, artistic, cultural and linked to different spheres and themes relative to the regenerative practices (rebranding strategies, functional redefinition, economy of culture, involvement of innovative businesses and the local governance, networks of support implementation) are today integrated, searching for an asset that may concretely favour the redefining and the reusing of this precious and only partially appraised resource.
Here and here and here and here some videos outlining the project.
Here an online Press Review.

Progettoborca is supported by IUAV.
Here all the partners of DC.

Following, the schedule of the speeches that will take place from 4 to 5 PM.
Speakers:

- Gianluca D’Incà Levis, curator of Dolomiti Contemporanee and Progettoborca
- Roberto Bosi, director of Provoiaggiarchitettura
- Marcello Cualbu, Minoter-Cualbu Group
- Martina Carraro, curatr of  E. Gellner Archive
- Angela Vettese, director of the undergraduate course of visual arts and fashion, IUAV University of Venice
- Alberto Cecchetto, teacher at the IUAV University of Venice
- Riccardo Caldura, teacher at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice
- Marta Allegri, artist and teacher at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice

We’d like to remind that  Progettoborca is in the final of the national Contest for innovative culture “CheFare3″. Those interested in supporting the regenerative project for the extraordinary Village of Borca, can do so by clicking on this link and following the instructions.

The Colonia, unplugged ever since ’91, now glows again. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

On Saturday, October the 24th, at 9 PM, Dolomiti Contemporanee presents a special event: the first overnight visit to the Colonia of the former Eni VIllage of Borca di Cadore. The Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) has been alive again for a year, now. More and more so as times goes on, too, thanks to the activities, the projects and the enhancing and refunctionalising strategies activated through the Progettoborca platform. But a year ago, the Colonia was in shambles. The vandals had tormented it for years, breaking in at night, shattering hundreds of glass surfaces and messing with the furniture and original pieces by Gellner that, to this day, fill its spaces. Today, everything has changed, and the Colonia is a huge active location, culturally and creatively, which lives the Space, and makes it live too, while it works for the envisioning of future destinations.

Electricity was missing, in the incredible, tentacular building, ever since 1991. Now it’s come back, DC has turned the Auditorium back on, the central body of the huge organism still in its place: when the Sun goes down, you can see it shine from the Alemagna State Highway. And we’ve given light back to other parts, too: every day, a part of the Colonia is taken back from darkness and oblivion.

And thus, on Saturday, it will be possible to visit some parts of the Colonia, with their nighttime layout. The appointment is set at 9 PM, at the offices of Dolomiti Contemporanee at the Village. It’s necessary to carry a light source (headtorch, flashlight). The accessible spaces of the Colonia, incredibly suggestive at night, will be open to the public until 11 PM. An unprecedented view of this exceptional Space.
It will be possible to access the Colonia on Sunday, October the 25th as well, with the appointment set at 3 PM, once again at DC‘s offices.

How to get there >>

Dolomiti Contemporanee takes part to the XI Day of the Contemporary, promoted by Amaci (Italian Contemporary Art Museums Association) on Saturday, October the 10th 2015.
For this occasion, the Colonia of the former Eni VIllage of Corte di Cadore will be open to the public.
From 3 PM, it will be possible to explore Edorardo Gellner’s architectures, as inserted in the environmental context of the Cadore’s Dolomites, and delving deep in the cultural and artistic active site launched here by Dolomiti Contemporanee with Minoter a year ago.
The visit also includes an Open-Studio for the pieces created by the artists taking part in the Residency Project hosted by Progettoborca, and labs active in the compound.
The visit will take place from 3 to 6 PM.

How to get there >>

Landscape Stories proposes a photography workshop for the 4th, 5th, and 6th of September, held by Domingo Miella, dedicated to the photographic observation of the Dolomite’s territory, fo its shapes and its stories.
The workshop will take place a the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore.
More info here.

Corte di Cadore Village, one of Progettoborca’s visit inside the Church of Nostra Signora del Cadore

Wednesday, August 26th, the Colonia (i.e. Summer Camp Building) of the former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore, will be open to the public.
The visit, lead by Dolomiti Contemporanee‘s staff, will start at 3:30 PM, meeting point at Progettoborca’s bookshop. Here the infos on how to get there.

At 5 PM, then, at the Church of Nostra Signora del Cadore, an organ recital will be held. The concert is curated by the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore and is part of the Organi Storici in Cadore festival.

Organist: Alessandro Giuliani, playing a positive organ “Francesco Zanin”.
Program: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and fugue in D minor BWV 565
Choral “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” BWV 639
Sonata I (1° mov.) BWV 525
Fantasia et fuga in G minor BWV 542
Coral “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland” BWV 659
Toccata, adagio et fuga in C major BWV 564

A moment of one of the last guided visits of the Colonia. Photo by Giacomo De Donà

Every Thursday of July and August, the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the Former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore will be available for public visiting, accompained by Dolomiti Contemporanee‘s staff.
The guided visit will last for about one hour.
Some of the main spaces of the huge Colonia, realised by Edoardo Gellner, will be visited, the project of regeneration for the site (Progettoborca) will be explained, and the pieces created inside the Colonia itself will be presented by the artists currently taking part in the Residency program at the Village.
All the Visits will begin at 3 PM, at the Progettoborca offices (former reception of the Colonia, in Via Mattei 5: please follow the road signs found inside the Village).

It is possible to sign up to the newsletter of progettoborca to always be up to date on the activities being carried out inside the former Eni Village. Please send your contact info at info@progettoborca.net.

The Church of Our Lady of the Cadore, at the former Eni Village. Photo by Giacomo De Donà.

In the context of the Dino Ciani Festival, On Wednesday August the 12th at 9 PM a tribute concert will be held in the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore, to commemorate Alexander Scrjabin (1873-1915) in the 100th anniversary of his death. The great music of the Russian composer will be presented by the maestri Maestri Youngho Kim, Claudio Martìnez Mehner and Jeffrey Swann, together with promising young performers from the Accademia.
he entrance fee is of 25 €, but reductions for Amici del Festival, Residents and Youth will be available.
More info here.

The ninth edition of the Festival and Accademia Dino Ciani, the “summer event of the peaks”, directed by maestro Jeffrey Swann, will once again this year bring the big names of international music, entertainment and culture to Cortina and the Cadore area.
The musical path proposed in the 2015 summer edition of the Festival, dedicated to America, will allow for the audience to deepen their knowledge not only of classics like Ives, Copland, Barber, Gershwin and Bernstein, but also of different genres, typical of the American tradition, like swing, jazz, and blues, other than the great musical comedies of Broadway.

7 PM – An overview of American Music of the 900s
A conference curated by Jeffrey Swann
Boite Hotel

9 PM - Ensemble Dino Ciani in Concert
Church of Our Lady of the Cadore

The Church of Our Lady of the Cadore, at the former Eni Village. Photo by Giacomo De Donà.

In the context of the Dino Ciani Festival, on Thursday August the 6th, at 7 PM, a conference titled “An overview of American Music of the 900s”, curated by Jeffey Swann will take place at the Boite Hotel of the former Eni Village.
A concert of the Dino Ciani Ensemble, which will perform at the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore at 9 PM, will follow, with music by Ives, Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Carter and Crumb.
The entrance is free for the conference of 7 PM, while the entrance fee for concert at the Church is of 25 €. Reductions for Amici del Festival, Residents and Youth will be available.
More info here.

The ninth edition of the Festival and Accademia Dino Ciani, the “summer event of the peaks”, directed by maestro Jeffrey Swann, will once again this year bring the big names of international music, entertainment and culture to Cortina and the Cadore area.
The musical path proposed in the 2015 summer edition of the Festival, dedicated to America, will allow for the audience to deepen their knowledge not only of classics like Ives, Copland, Barber, Gershwin and Bernstein, but also of different genres, typical of the American tradition, like swing, jazz, and blues, other than the great musical comedies of Broadway.

On Monday, August the 3rd, at 9 PM the event “Telemann Trio concert, and church’s architecture curated by Alessandra Cusinato” will take place. The evening is part of Summer of Titian 2015‘s program.
Click here for the complete schedule.

Booking and info:
www.tizianovecellio.it
phone; 0435 501674
e-mail: centrostudi@tizianovecellio.it

On the 17th, 18th, and 19th of July 2015, it will be possible to spend some time in the former Eni Village, by carrying out guided tours of the structures and taking part in the showing of the documentary-movie Villaggio Eni. Un piacevole soggiorno nel futuro (Eng.: Eni Village. A pleasant stay in the future).
Guests will be welcomed on the 16th, with the choice of staying at the Boite Hotel or the Corte Residence. Booking of the stay (3 nights), in keeping with the Eni Day offer, will allow for automatic sing-up for the other scheduled activities.

For more information please refer to these contacts:
phone:     0435/487500
e-mail:   cortedelledolomiti@13maggio.com

July the 11th, press conference DC 2015 in borca, and public opening of the Colonia

On Saturday July the 11^th, the fifth season of Dolomiti Contemporanee (DC) will be launched: TERRAFORMAZIONE will begin.

The official Press Conference, open to the public, will take place inside the Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, important “constriction site” for DC ever since last year, when the Progettoborca platform was introduced. The Village (Colonia, new Progettoborca offices, Our Lady of the Cadore Church) will be open to the public.

At 2 PM, the journalists and public will be welcomed in the new offices of DC in Borca, inside the former reception building of the Colonia, another one of Gellner’s creations (Via Mattei 5). Everyone will then move to the Lower Cabin of the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building), where the Press Conference will take place. Here, the projects and schedule of the summer-autumn season of DC will be presented, relating to both  Borca and Casso (Nuovo Spazio di Casso), to the International Artistic Contest Two calls for Vajont, to the new sites (Paper Factory of Vas) and to the new active collaborations. The TERRAFORMAZIONE Communication Campaign by Fabio Balcon of Bra_ba_m will also be presented. Some never-before-seen artworks, realised in the last few weeks by the artists taking part in the Residency program in Borca, will also be shown.

schedule:

2 PM: reception at the new offices of Progettoborca, realised thanks to the support of Minoter. The offices occupy the former reception building of the Colonia, another one of Gellner’s creations (Via Mattei 5). They house an area of public reception and info-point on the Village, and a bookshop put together with the collaboration of the Tarantola Bookshop of Belluno (texts on Gellner, Scarpa and on the architecture of the mountain, on art and design, on mountaineering and landscape), as well as the offices of Dolomiti Contemporanee. The building is also the new way into the Colonia.

2:30 PM: Lower Cabin in the Colonia: official Press Conference for the launch of the fifth season of Dolomiti Contemporanee, with the presentation of the projects and activities that will take place in Borca, Casso, and in the area of the Vajont, at the former Paper Factory of Vas, and other sites. The Communication Campaign 2015, titled TERRAFORMAZIONE, realised by Fabio Balcon of Bra_ba_m will also be presented.

3:30-5:30 PM: Open-studio at the Colonia,  along with a visit to the structure and a presentation of the new artworks realised by the artists taking part in the residency project (Min-Ji Kim, Michelangelo Penso, Marta Allegri, Gianni De Val).

5:30 PM: Visit to the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

6:30 PM: Happy Hour-buffet on the balcony of the Auditorium (Colonia).

6:30 PM: music-performance at the Bear’s Cage.

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Saturday 16th May, for the Cadore Culture Week (Settimana della Cultura cadorina), Dolomiti Contemporanee will open to the public, for the first time in season 2015, the Summer Camp building (Colonia) in the former Eni Village.
Edoardo Gellner’s architectures and the artworks created by the artists involved in these early months of progettoborca‘s activity will be available to the public. Many artists will be also present.
The guided tour will extend then to other structures of the Village.

The meeting is May 16th, at 2.00 pm. The visit will start from the Ufficio Vendite, into the Village and will least about 2 hours.

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Artists involved: Marco Andrighetto, Chiara Bergamo, Elisa Bertaglia, Gino Blanc, Stefano Cagol, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Sandra Hauser, Jérémy Laffon, Stefano Moras, Luka Sirok.

On Thursday, May the 14th, at 9 PM, the conference titled “With Gellner and after Gellner – being an Architect”, will take place with the participation of the architect Michele Merlo (Gellner Studio, Cortina D’Ampezzo).
The meeting is carried out in the context of the Architecture Thursdays, promoted by Rovigo’s Order of the Architects, and follows, in the context of a deeper look on architect Edoardo Gellner’s figure, the projection of the film Villaggio Eni, un piacevole soggiorno nel futuro (Eng.: Eni Village, a pleasant stay in the future) on May the 7th 2015.

In occasion of Artefiera 2015 (Bologna) and, in particular, within the scope of the Art City White Night, Internofoto will present Progettoborca, a project of cultural valorization launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee at the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, through a selection of pictures and videos.
The event is linked to the exhibit La villeggiatura moderna (Eng.: the modern resort).

Visits at the Colonia with progettoborca. Photo: Giacomo De Donà