Fuocopaesaggio has been the concept for the 2017 edition of Dolomiti Contemporanee, which this year, too, has produced sparks and flames all around, between Borca, Casso, and Monte Ricco.
Progettoborca, the first site of this spread-out fire, hosted, between April and September, hundreds between artists, architects, and cultural innovation designers, giving new light to the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building), flaring it up.

The Open-studio on October 20th, 21st and 22nd is a long celebration, during which we plan to present the work carried out during the summer, a lot of artistic and cultural production, ideas and objects, projects and work-in-progress processes: ideas are concrete objects here, products of the spirit: stoneworks lapped by fire.

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Characteristics of the motion

Colour of fire: three days of meetings and exchanges, in the Colonia-hub-lab, with many of the artists that have, in the past few months, taken part in the kindling of the regenerative practice launched inside the Village and the Colonia ever since 2014 by Dolomiti Contemporanee, with Minoter‘s support.

The artists return to present the pieces they developed in the part few months, pieces that are part of the whole, and a whole that is a responsible practice that re-thinks the usage and destiny of the Colonia, today and in contemporaneity.
And the other artists are coming too: many of those who have nourished the project since the very beginning: the pioneers, the second-comers, the veterans, and the students of the Fine Arts Academies, and the architects, and the scientists of the forest, and so on.
All these sensitive, active and capable people together, working on the reprocessing of the space (the meaning) of the sleeping giant (and of the peaks and the woods that go along with it), to never do, here, the cenotaph of Gellner, Mattei, and something that isn not anymore.

Because, on the contrary, ithat thing – the residual, extraordinary potential of the Colonia and of the Village, which had been waiting for a long time to be risen again; a rise that is accomplished through a stubborn regenerative practice, that is the nourishment of relationships; a rise that cannot naturally coincide with mere theory from head-in-the-clouds economists, nor with a pathetic restoration without any ideas about the future usage, and set above it – that thing, we were saying, is still there, most definitely, and it’s a process, which thinks and re-thinks, and figures out and transforms, and pushes and widens.

During these three days, thus, as it is usual in this great, exceptional stirring accelerator (which is not a blender) of ideative, productive, building, experimental, re-innovative experiences, we will meet and observe many things, all of us present and active, a population of woken and attentive people, never just facsimiles, where guests never become a so-called audience, but instead morph into additional sensibilities as they are put into relation in open networks, and so forth.

Programme

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20TH

Cinema of the Colonia
(all day)

Radioborcia, Fire Session Sessione del Fuoco
(all day)

Thaumàzein – The threshold
by Sandra Hauser, Higher Cabin.
(2 PM – 10 PM)

Rìcèrcati
(8:30 PM – 10 PM)

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21ST

Cinema of the Colonia
(all day)

Radioborcia, Fire Session Sessione del Fuoco
(all day)

Thaumàzein – The threshold
by Sandra Hauser, Higher Cabin.
(2 PM – 10 PM)

Risulta di dislivello
by Stefano Comensoli and Nicolò Colciago.
(2:30 PM – 4:30 PM)

EPL – Experimental Photography Lab

Fiorio sounds
Auditorium
(7 PM – 9 PM)

Rìcèrcati
by Andreas Zampella
(8:30 PM – 10 PM)

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 22ND

Laundry Print Lab
with Giuseppe Vigolo and Fine Arts Academy of Venice students, Marcello Cualbu and Anna Poletti
info and booking enquiries: info@progettoborca.net.
(10 AM – 6 PM)

Cinema of the Colonia
(all day)

Radioborcia, Fire Session Sessione del Fuoco
(all day)

Thaumàzein – The threshold
by Sandra Hauser, Higher Cabin.
(2 PM – 10 PM)

Lunch/Studiovisit at Cametti’s place
by Simone Cametti and his family, invite only.
(12 AM – 2 PM)

Guided Tour of the Colonia
(2 PM – 4 PM)

INTHEMOUNTAINS
by Giogio Orbi, Lower Cabin.
(2 PM – 4:30 PM)

Artist round table in the Auditorium
With: Marta Allegri, Elisa Bertaglia, olmo g. stuppia, Stefano Moras, Stefania Mazzola, Sandra Hauser, Marco Andrighetto, Gino Blanc, Simone Cametti, Stefano Comensoli, Nicolò Colciago, Andreas Zampella, Marco Rossetti, Bruno Amplatz, Stefano Cagol, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Luca Chiesura, Andrra Visentini.
(4:30 PM – 6:30 PM)

Franz Rosati and Marco Cinque
video and sound performance at the Cinema.
(5:30 PM – 7 PM)

Rìcèrcati
by Andreas Zampella
(8:30 PM – 10 PM)

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Click here to get directions to reach the Village. The access points for the Colonia, where the activities take place, are the offices of Progettoborca, former Eni VIllage, Via Mattei 5, Borca di Cadore.
From the offices, DC’s staff will lead the guests to the different locations of the events inside the structure.
We ask that guests try and adhere to the times indicated in the programme: because of the site’s size, it is not possible to reach the various locations without a guide.

On Saturday, then, at 2 PM, the first ones in (so to speak: we never do get out of here; the real first ones), at the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building), were the people of Landscape Stories, photographic workshop with Domingo Milella.
At 3 PM, the titanic asset’s maw (as it is a breathing being, not a lifeless object) have snapped open, swallowing down everyone. More than 2.300 people have passed through the Colonia; how about that.
And the Colonia has changed, and keeps on changing, every day, every moment.
The Colonia is the now the cornerstone of the vibratile Village, and Progettoborca is the heart of the upheaval process (and of Terraformazione) launched a year ago. The meaning of the process is contained between two opposed spanning extremes: a diabolical 3D postcard with two snarling groundhogs, that look like furry burgers, and the contempt for every kind of subsidence (going up).
In the Colonia there are no frames, artworks, exhibits: we don’t like them much, these dry, little, wooden words; better a lash to the oculomotor and the channelization of fluids, finally unbound.
There are, thus, demonstrations, presence, sharp glances, here, epiphanies and proedures (this is the word), even before paths and tales (procedures don’t need to script themselves in an explicit plots: procedures are simply ideas in the words, and ideas in the works are very far from being factual states and from the other areas of leveling down).
Often, in fact, even depending on who is looking, something that happens is that a potential ends up scarring over, necrotizes, gets paralized into a static image, a picture, let’s say, i.e. the passive representation of a crystallized state: but here, we’re saying, we’re inside a motion, and in exactly that resides the chatacteristic of processing: process is motion (and real motions are, however, faculties typical of those who know how to stay, and don’t keep themselves amused with vacuous and pretentions declarations of mobility – the nomadic genius of the get-going, as that prosaic, cannibalistic, rude turist of exoticisms of Chatwin, the moleskine to the office worker, the short sleeves of the intelleco-peacock, the prose of the caveman).

Going back to things, though, before people get distracted (what people, for that matter? Don’t we always say that the only real things are ideas? And then? But we can’t always be completely real, isn’t that so? Of course we can: we must): we’ve all gone in, and there were this things-ideas, alight, a must-see.

The installation by Domenico Antonio Mancini, first, in the large hall of the AS Pavilion, from which we can access the spatial body of the trembling Colonia.
Nineteen Mivar television sets*, unused for years, modified and reactivated, Mattei‘s face at the centre of all of them, talking with no voice, waiting the second phase of this installative work, a performative one, at the Bear’s Cage, and there its title will eventually be understood: La Versione di Misha (Eng.: Misha’s Version). And, here, Antonio, our electrical enlightener (Idrotermolux), was the one to bring the light.

At Domenico’s side, Urban Hero, one of Fabiano De Martin Topranin‘s statues, not alone in the hall anymore.
On the ground, facing the pillar (while the pillar-trees of the posthumous jungle of the Antelao stand outside), a gellner-pasolinian protosculpure (a trace) by Aleksander Velišček.
Then, the human snake began to move, up the first ramp, to reach the area for the clothes distribution, where Silvia Hell has performed, in the Female Showers, the installation Cleanland, strong and thin, sharp and yet secret in its corners, at least some of them: perceptibility isn’t objectivity, but the function of a kind of explorative hunger, instead, without which only matches on TV remain (seek the lights, the shadows, the dust, and stop looking for a tagline; we’re alone in the world, and we must build the gear). And here, too, the light was brought by Antonio, our omnipresent electrical enlightener.

Next to Cleanland, in the Male Showers, is on the other hand the first fragment of the Slovenia Pavilion (Vanja Mervič, Luka Širok, Aleksander Velišček, Špela Volčic; with the patronage of the Slovenian Ministry of Culture), which is coming along, well deployed, atomically scatteredd. It’s the installation Volume Moles by Luka Širok. Chromatic fluids with different densities have been found in the nooks and crannies of the Colonia. Waters, juices, oily substances, fats, 20-yesr-old drinks. A series of glasses and glass containers have emerged from the monster’s belly, too, which every day gives back objects and relics, like storm at the beach. The liquids in the containers, in stratified colours, inside the showers, in the soap holders. An effervescent table (or what’s left of it: that, too, is from back in the day) is picked up with latex gloves, and immersed into the liquid. And the fuilds, the masses and densities, move, mix together, a slow boil, reminding us of Martian settings (Robinson Crusoe on Mars, seen yesterday), and extra-galactic volcanic exploits (in the sci-fi movies from the two-year period between ’57 and ’58, in which we wallow every night).
Then, at the infirmary, before the chromatic curtains by Stefano Moras, for whom no scrap is ever waste, and always formal-nurishing principle, here comes the re-assembled floor by Aran and Bruno, two of the students of the Fine Arts Academy of Venice, whom Marta Allegri has brought to Borcia, with the Repair, take care workshop, and the wardrobe halved by Nicola‘s blade, which now towers, whole, on the composit raft of recovered wood (very Michael Johansson, we’ll show him), between an icon and a buck, thanks for the gift, guys, Christopher is doing great, too, and says thank you along with us.
In the next room, Mattia Pajé prepared his auto-terraforming cycle – A – n- T, 72 straight hours inside the Colonia, night and day, to hear the sounds, to feel and perceive everything that is part of that still, great body, when nobody is around.
Then back at the laundrette, where Andrea Visentini, from whom some sonofafemaledog has stolen six beautiful watercolour pieces (we’ve talked about that already), not at all defeated, has devised two new sculptures, which is now completing,  and a little further down, still in the laundrette, the original dryer, thanks to Sofia, has become a printing press, and the pizza trays from back in the day have become the first engraved plates, and there it is, then, the experimental printing and engraving lab of Borcia, and we’ll make good use of it, too.

Going back up to the dining hall, then, we find the research plant by Giorgio Barrera, Barbara De Ponti, Filippo Manzini, and their artist book-prototype: soon they will be here again, developing. The chairs aren’t there anymore, in their place, behind the glass; where then? In the Auditorium, well terraformed, dear people, and it was about time.
In the phenomenal Auditorium, in fact, many  and different things have happened.
Talkonfession, the great piece by Michelangelo Penso, has stolen the scene for a day. The four wooden confessionals, originals by Gellner, the eighty original chairs by Fantoni, the thirty recorden interviews, intellectuals’ coices mixed to those of the people of Borca, recounting a polyphonic idea of the Confession, other than the (confessed) history of the relationship of the community of Borca and this Village, of alinen-likenesses and in-comprehension.

Moreover: blessed be Antonio, by now our essential electrical enlightener: the Auditorium had been dark since ’91, when the Colonia was declared unfit for use. But on Saturday, the light came back and spread once again in the air of this sharp upturned keel, warming the wood and concrete to the ceiling, and projecting out the gigantic glass wall De-stijl, to water the forest, shining in the wet and dark night.
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Translator’s notes:
*Made in Italy televisions sets. The last of its factories closed down in 2014.

Photo: Paolo Dal Pont, Giacomo De Donà, Stefano Moras, Adriano Zanni

The guided tour will begin at 3 PM, in the offices of Progettoborca (here the directions you’ll need to get there), and will continue until about 6 PM.
From 6 PM, sounds from the Bear’s Cage.
From 4 PM to 7 PM, it will be possible for people to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

-Artists (new works): 
Luca Chiesura, Silvia Hell, The Joys Experience, Michelangelo Penso, Luka Širok, G. Olmo Stuppia.

-Workshops and labs currently being carried out, and in-progress projects: Slovenian Pavilion: Vanja Mervič, Luka Širok, Aleksander Velišček, Špela Volčic (with the patronage of the Slovenian Ministry of Culture); “Repair and Taking Care” Workshop, curated by Marta Allegri (with the patronage of the Fine Arts Academy of Venice, and featuring the students Bruno Amplatz, Rob van der Berg, Sofia Bonato, Cristina Calderoni, Ilaria Fasoli, Annamaria Maccapani, Miriam Montani, Aran Ndimurwanko, Giulia Sacchetto, Giovanni Sartori, and the professor Riccardo Caldura); “Artisti Atelier Giudecca” project, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Enej Gala, Francesco Nordio, Miriam Secco, Matteo Stocco, Annalisa Zegna); Giorgio Barrera, Giuseppe Caccavale, Simone Cametti, Barbara De Ponti, Giovanni Gaggia, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Filippo Manzini, Roberto Paci Dalò, Kai-Uwe Shulte-Bunert.

-Artists (permanent artworks, and those currently being re-processed): Marta Allegri, Marco Andrighetto, Chiara Bergamo, Elisa Bertaglia, Gino Blanc, Stefano Cagol, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Gianni De Val, Sandra Hauser, Min Ji Kim, Stefano Moras, Luka Širok, Andrea Visentini.

  Day’s program:

  3 PM: reception in the new offices of Progettoborca: start of the Colonia visit and Open Studio.

  6 PM: sounds from the Bear’s Cage, happy hour.

  From 4 PM to 7 PM: Chance to visit the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.

Medardo I, the dc2015 rocket, as it was being set up in the village, last winter. The rocket, designed by aerospace engineer extraordinaire fabio balcon, landed on the new moon of borcia: the terraforming operation has begun – original photo: sergio casagrande

On Saturday, July the 11th, the DC2015 rocket was launched, the cultural Terraforming process started; a new phase, the fifth stage. The official Press Conferenc was held, at 2 PM, on the ground floor of the AS Pavilion of the Colonia, presenting the schedule and planned projects for 2015, several of which are already in progress. Milky way, naturally.
The house organ of Progettoborca was presented: “La Testata” (Eng.: the header), entropically diffused periodical paper of mental climbing and cultural gardening of the vertical landscapes. In the first number, several pieces on the artistical and cultural activities, on the history and memory of the Borcia Space Station (Corte Village), on the perspectives of regeneration and on the Residency program. The paper can be found at the Progettoborca bookshop, in the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) of the Village, and in the table football-less bars of the Val del Boite.
The Communication Campaign for Terraformazione was presented by the famous, charismatic, sometimes seemingly shady (just affectionate teasing, of course) Fabio Balcon, who curated it. The pictures of the campaign, will be projected, launched, spread, put into orbit on the media in the next few weeks and months, to introduce the different expeditions in the Space Sites in which we’re going to operate.
On the tail end of this post you’ll find, summed up, a few of the projects we’re tilling, after planting the seeds (here, you sow first and till the soil later).
Then, after the children of the Village’s Campsite (where many of our own have slept, prayed, cried, contemplated, even, in afflatus, and banged their heads against the wood), lead by Father Valentino and Raffaella, and steered by Alice, spent some time in the Colonia, their noses up in the air, our guests did the same in the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore.
And then, again, everyone down to the Colonia, alive once again, and pulsating; a green heart with a lynphatic system, concrete, metal veins and arteries, six-legged glass to contain the objects of attention, the care and ideas of the artists-disrupters, disrupters of shortage (of ideas) and inertia, who cross over each other every minute, now, in the Colonia.
And thus, on to the new combover of the Bear’s Cage, another magical cell of radiant enchantment for an astral dj-set, and the inverted happy hour of DC (which starts from Acqua Dolonia, to extinguish the hydration processes, that mustn’t be carried out to the detriment of alcoholic euphoria, and continues with Grappa Nonino, to abruptly raise the bio-psycho-attentive threshold and, this way, to reach Birra Dolomiti already well kickstarted; and the prosecco, in different shapes and forms, always nice. A carpet of grass, and woods, and jungle, of stimuli and landscape, of architectures with an alien aesthetic, in this atomic cosmos among peaks, whose nakes nucleus each person experiences in jumps (excepts the idiots: but we don’t invite any of them), here was exposed, and it reverbetated, the carpet of sound; you’re all carpeters, then: come and shake them.

Below, some pictures from the event (photos by Giacomo De Donà)

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Dolomiti Contemporanee, 2015 season (Terraformazione) – Synthetic Press Release

On Saturday, July the 11th, the fifth season of Dolomiti Contemporanee (DC), whose title is TERRAFORMAZIONE, was officially launched. The official Press Release, open to the public, took place in the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, an important “constuction site” of DC, with its platform, Progettoborca, ever since last year.

Day’s 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: everyone moved to the welcoming hall of Colonia (ground floor, Pavilion AS). Here the Press Conference took place.
The projects and programs of the summer-fall season of DC were presented, all relating to the sites of Borca and Casso (Nuovo Spazio di Casso), to the International Artistic Contest Two calls for Vajont, to the new sites (former Paper Factory of Vas, Forni di Sopra, and to the new collaborations that have been activated.
The Communication Campaign of TERRAFORMAZIONE, realised by Fabio Balcon, of Bra_Ba_M, was also presented. The paper of Progettoborca, “La Testata”, was shown.
Some of the not-yet-shown artworks relised in the past few weeks by the artists taking part in the Residency program in Borca were presented.

3:30/5:30 PM: Visit to the Colonia and open-studio, presenting new pieces, both realised and in the works, by the artists involved in the Residency program (Min-Ji Kim, Marta Allegri, Gianni De Val, Filippo Manzini, Giorgio Barrera, Barbara De Ponti, Andrea Visentini).

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

6:30 PM: Happy Hour-buffet at the Bear’s Cage (Colonia)

4:00 PM/8:00 PM: music at the Bear’s Cage. LV-426 terraforming plant (alien sounds from the cage-space) djs: Kool de Sac, Brizia Fa, Rebecca Wilson, Mantaraffu.

Dolomiti Contemporanee 2015 – Terraformazione: sites, projects, programs, activities.

Former Eni Village of Corte di Cadore

The main operative centre for Dolomiti Contemporanee in 2015 is the former Eni Village of Borca di Cadore, where is active, ever since July 2014, the platform of functional and cultural regeneration Progettoborca. The extraordinary site of Borca, and in particular the humongous Colonia, are, by now, a large “construction site”/lab, in which dozens of artists, coming from all over Italy, and from several countries abroad, work, meet, live.
Indeed, an international Residency program is active in the Village, housed in the structures offered by the Minoter-Cualbu group, current owner of the site. The artists wotk, through they pieces, on the recovery of the potential, both historical and cultural, of the site. Many and varied the cultural and artistic projects that are going to be developed between July and November, some of them listed below.

A new paper for Progettoborca. La Testata.
The first issue of the Paper “La Testata”, dedicated to the cultural project of enhancement and regeneration of Progettoborca, to the activities being carried out within it, to the history and architecture of the site. The Paper was designed and redacted by Dolomiti Contemporanee, with a graphic project by Fabio Balcon of Bra_BA_M.

July the 9th-september 2015
Inventario/Vuoto/Moltitudine – research Lab in the Former ENI Village. The artists Filippo Manzini, Giorgio Barrera, Barbara De Pontiare activating their own research lab on the Colonia from July. The experience was born from the will to begin a dialogue on this location; thus individual needs were born, which found out to share procedural affinity. The result of the first revelation is summed up and made tangible with the realisation of a prototype in which different impressions and manners of operation are fused together, and heard. In the month of September, through an ulterior Residency program, this path, that could have different artistic solutions, able to activate even more processes, will found its actualisation.

July the 11th, Min Ji Kim, We or They, smoke, luglio 2015,site-specific installation , Colonia.
We or They: not a disjunctive duality, but an interrogation. The presentation of the smoke-colour in the Colonia puts into relation the structure of the geometric shapes-volumes of Gellner’s architecture and the ephemeral organic volume that, before scattering inside it, redefines space, in that dialectical relation. Full and empty. Heavy and light. Mobile and still. Present and alien. What is alien? What was, and still is? Or what is to come?

July-September: Marta Allegri, Disabitate, and workshop “REPAIR, Take care”, with the students of the Fine Arts Academy of Venice.
Marta Allegri has begun to work in Borca on the tail end of summer 2014. Her work is a continuous process, realised in different phases in time, through which the artist maintains, recovers, repairs, cares for the former nuns’ quarters, one of the many abadoned spaces inside the Colonia, giving them new life, even living inside them, fixing the domestic environments (living room, kitchen, bedrooms), repairing systems, plasters, masonry, and adding then her own artistic intervention, which inglobate parts and remnants of objects trouvé.

From August the 31st to September the 6th, her work will be shared with a group of students from the Fine Arts Academy of Venice (Bruno Amplatz, Rob van der Berg, Sofia Bonato, Cristina Calderoni, Ilaria Fasoli, Annamaria Maccapani, Miriam Montani, Aran Ndimurwanko, Giulia Sacchetto, Giovanni Sartori), who will work on the theme “REPAIR, Take care”. During the workshop, professor Riccardo Caldura will be present for a lesson of phenomenology of contemporary arts.

August the 11th-18th, Slovenia Pavilion
With the Slovenia Pavilion the format of the national artistic collaboration in Borca is inaugurated. The artists Vanja Mervič, Luka Širok, Aleksander Velišček, Špela Volčic,will work in the Colonia, which will house the first artistic lab of national participation for a week. The artists will work in group, interacting with one of the abadoned spaces of the compound, on a pictorial-installative projects focused on the themes of the border, the transition, and the alternate history. The work will not be completed: it will be taken up again in the following months, with new things being added to it as it goes on: the lab is a process activator: the artwork mustn’t be closed, the space must be open instead.

August 24th-30th, High-lab
The artists of the Giudecca (VE) based Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation atelier (Francesco Nordio, Enej Gala, Miriam Secco, Fabio Roncato, Matteo Stocco, Annalisa Zegna) will live for a week in one of the fantastic structures of the former Eni Village: the permanent tents Camping ground, 1.600 mt.s in altitude, in the heart of the woods at the foot of Mt. Antelao. They, too, will select a space inside the Colonia, and will regenerate it, using various materials found in-site for their artwork.

Other artists of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Another groups of artists taking part in the Residency program of the Foundation in Palazzo Carminati (Valentina Furlan, Caterina Morigi, Davide Sgambaro, Sebastiano Sofia, Valerio Veneruso), will be in Borca to kickstart other “construction sites”-projects in August and September.

Before, and along.
We’d like to name some of the artists that, in the past months, have already begun and presented the procedures of artistic terraforming (works that re-utilise parts and objects of the original structures of the Village): Marco Andrighetto, Chiara Bergamo, Elisa Bertaglia, Gino Blanc, Stefano Cagol, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Gianni De Val, Sandra Hauser, Stefano Moras, Luka Sirok. Artisti in esplorazione, lavori in corso: Giuseppe Caccavale, Luca Chiesura, Silvia Hell, Masbedo, Roberto Paci Dalò, Michelangelo Penso, Kai-Uwe Shulte-Bunert, Andrea Visentini.

September, spacial interactivity lab, curated by Marcello Cualbu.
In September, Marcello Cualbu will lead a lab of spacial interactivity which will involve the students of the Art Institute of Cortina D’Ampezzo and of some other schools of the Val Boite. At the basis of this lab we found the codex, the hardware and speculation around poetry, aesthetic and policy of space. An effort for open-source teaching and learning, in which we’ll muse over art and technology. A strenght of this lab is the context in which students and teachers produce an artwork together, and at the same time learn to use and teach themselves new instruments, like small inspectors, desectors, and actuators. The Lab will take place in the Lower Cabin at the Colonia and in the Lab at the M Pavilion.

Nuovo Spazio di Casso and Two calls for Vajont

The exhibitive activity at the Nuovo Spazio di Casso will begin again on Saturday, July the 18th. Saturday, July the 18th, at 5 PM the results of the International Artistic Contest Two Calls for Vajont, launched by Dolomiti Contemporanee in June 2014, will be made public. With the occasion, Twocalls, the shape of ideas will be inaugurated; a display of some of the projects selected for the final phase of the Contest, is going to be inaugurated as well. Through this exhibit the genesys, the meaning, and the current state of this ideative contest-project, which aims to rethink the relationship between history, tragedy, and the human, physical, cultural landscape of the Vajont area is told.
The exhibit will remain open from the 18th of July to the 16th of August, and will be open for visits from Thursday to Sunday, from 10 AM to 12:30 PM and from 3 PM to 7 PM.

The events scheduled for Casso and the Friulan Dolomites during the summer will be presented as well, and they include the second edition of the format of Paesaggi Contemporanei (Eng.: contemporary landscapes), inaugurated in 2014 with Marc Augé, and that this year will have as guests, among others, Pier Luigi Sacco and Giannola Nonino, and the collective exhibit Tonon ignà, which will be realised in collaboration with Stefano Moras (artists: Pamela Breda, Veronica De Giovannelli, Stefano Moras, Lorenzo Commisso, Roberto Da Dalt, Nicolas Magnant, Lara Marconi, Made in Lucania (Evelyn Leveghi), and that will take place between August the 22nd and September the 26th.

August-october 2015, Former Paper Factory of Vas

The former Paper Factory of Vas is the new “construction site” of DC. The spectacular compund will become a space of artistic and cultural experimentation. A Residency program is going to kick off in August (Elena Carozzi, Beatrice Meoni, Philippa Peckham, Maja Thonnen, Silvia Vendramel, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Giuseppe Vigolo). We’ll work on some guiding themes, linked to the war-like regeneration of the location and its past, and to the production of new image-guides for its present.

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The web of Dolomiti Contemporanee

Patronage: Ministry of the Environment, Dolomiti UNESCO Foundation, National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Keepers, Veneto Region, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Pordenone Province, Udine Province, BIM Piave, Belluno Dolomites Industrail Federation, Erto and Casso Municipality, Borca di Cadore Municipality, Belluno Province,Claut Municipality, Cimolais Municipality, Vajont Municipality, Longarone Municipality, Belluno Municipality, Vajont Foundation, Friulan Dolomites Natural Park, GAL Alto Bellunese, Montagna Leader.

Cultural partners: Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Merz Turin Foundation, Strozzina Contemporary Culture Centre, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto Mart, Institut Français, Association d.c.a., Real Academia de España en Roma, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – m.a.c.Lab, Progetto iccs, Mario Rimoldi Museum, Neonlauro, Studio Gellner, Leapfactory, Tabacco, Archeologia Industriale.

Media partner: Artribune, Espoarte, AreaArte, Bra.Ba.M.

Fundamental Partners: Minoter-Cualbu Group, Enel, Acqua Dolomia, DB Group. Partner: Grappa Nonino, Eolo NGI, Cuprum Elettromeccanica, De Bona Motors, Salus, Cooperativa Mazarol, Nuovi Progetti, Idrotermolux, Ecopietra, Sips Italia, D’Incà & C., Lattebusche, Conte D’Attimis Maniago, Birra Dolomiti, Vipa Ristorazione, Salewa, Dolomite, Impresa Artecos, Gioc Hotel, Lèbon, Cason Marmi, Procaffè/Bristot, Cervo Bianco, Ristorante Cianzia, Birraria Bauce, Pro Loco di Erto e Casso, SuperW, Sta srl, Magif Telecomunicazioni, Gi-Erre Elettronica, Color Service, CMI Centro Noleggio, Dal Farra Flavio, Libreria Tarantola, Lomax Servizi, Deon, Grava Angelo & Edy, Krea, Dolomiè, Tecno Isolamenti, Orzes Termoidraulica, Piave Maitex, De Rigo, La.Bell, Planet Ottica, Alpe del Nevegal, Biasiotto Vini, Diab, Limana Costruzioni, Hermann, D-Shape.

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.

How to get there >>

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

And thus, on Saturday May the 16th, in occasion of the Cadore’s Culture Week, the incredible structure of the Colonia will once again be open to the public. It will be possible to visit Gellner’s architectural creation, and see the artworks realised by the artists in these first few months of activities, while they themselves are there.
These are the artists who worked in Borca: Marco Andrighetto, Marta Allegri, Chiara Bergamo, Elisa Bertaglia,Gino Blanc, Gianni De Val, Fabiano De Martin Topranin, Sandra Hauser, Jérémy Laffon, Stefano Moras, Luka Sirok.
Some never before seen artworks will be presented as well.

The guided tour will go on further, and reach some of the other structures of the Village.
If the weather will be good, at around 4:30 PM it will be possible for us all to move from the Colonia to reach the Church of Our Lady of the Cadore. The vehicle accessibility of the parking lot is prohibited at this time by order of the Firefighters, because of some maintanance that is being carried out.
The visit will thus be possible starting from the parking lot of the Boite Hotel, and reaching the Church through a very short path in the woods, to access the church from its main entrance.

The back area and its immediate vicinity remain forbidden to the public, which will not be able to move around in the area marked by the bi-coloured tape.
In case of rain, the visit to the Church will not be carried out.

The appointment is at 2 PM, on Saturday May the 16th, and the meeting point if the Sales Office (Ufficio Vendite, in Italian on the signs), inside the Village.

Here the directions to get to the Village (once inside, please follow the sings pointing to the Sales Office/Ufficio Vendite).
Duration of the visit: about two hours.

Meanwhile, we’re working on new projects, artistic, cultural, and strategic ones, many of them, which will be carried out during the Summer and Autumn of 2015, giving more and more light to the magic Village, that needs to live.

Born in Padola di Comelico in 1984.
Graduated in Sculpture in both Brunico and Selva di Val Gardena.
Lives and works in Padola.
Media: wooden sculpture.

Here his artwork.

Fabiano De Martin Topranin

Imaginary Friend
poplar, 160x90x70 cm, 2014
Colonia, Dining Hall

Imagined trip
cedar, acrilic, 130x50x45 cm, 2014
Colonia, corridor

Photos: Giacomo De Donà

…People and things: objects and intentions, the circulation of people: it looks like a garden, now, this maze, a garden built, at last, the Colonia, crossed by people, who move and reach fulcri of activation, the posts in which the artists have focused their gaze on the thing itself, taking the parts of the large body, of its viscera, its fragments, its colours, the wall painting, the furniture, the irons, the glass shards, the doors, the papers, the chairs, the wood, the remnants, the dirt, the stuff found in the infirmary, the curtains, the trees, the firewood, to feed the majolica stoves, always lit up at this point, the plastics, the pine needles, the geometries, the sounds, the glimpses, the strength, the disorientations, the rehangings, the fears, the loneliness, the extroversions and overflowings, and all the other things, all of them.
These materials, a body split in atoms in the large Colonia, themselves nourish the building, as if having broken a vein to find warm blood once again, not at all coagulated, and licking at it, pouring it over, filling up containers, and it’s lava, which flows, and activates the mallets, and the pulsing can be felt, and seen, not just breath of the forest, now, but its swarming, there’s the re-taming of the space, which isn’t alien, closed , mute anymore, and it’s easier now to move around in the Colonia, and it’s enjoyable to lose oneself in it, when that happens, again, because then, you can find yourself again, you can be found, the space itself is found, the space is active, re-taming means that “they live here”, also, that it feels like we’re moving around in a house, now, a huge, extended house, made up of one thousand two hundred rooms, from which the dust is coming off, and the memories come out and up, taken again into the action, the senses, in the re-emergence of the objects, which were already there, since forever, but that were not there anymore, from a long while ago: and now, there they are, alight again.
Low cloud of fog yesterday in Borca, down to swallow the swallowing nature, and it was a pleasure, to enter it, and walk, this warm snake of people in the mouth of the large, planted body, and following the branches, their warmth captured by Stefano Cagol, the other nuclei of strength and energy, Sandra’s, Stefano’s, Fabiano’s, Elisa’s, Luka’s, Marta’s, Jeremy’s, Chiara’s, Gino’s, Marco’s, and mine, and Veronica’s, Alice’s, Marcello’s, Giacomo’s, Paolo’s, Sergio’s, introjected by the walkers of the ramps, a big snake whose spires, tended in reflective torsion, envelop the space, from the inside, dynamic canalization, have released the waves towards the outside, and the water, well, we’ve seen more than a few drops, it quickly vaporized on the branches, the pine needles, the trunks, feeding the cloud again (and thus we were the ones inside it, we’d say, to weigh now the sky, and not the other way round: it was more loaded downstairs, and the dark unwound, clearly, in light).

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in the picture: Sandra Hauser at work in the Capanna-atelier, in the Colonia (summercamp building) of the Eni Village – Photo: Giacomo De Donà

On saturday 8 November, in Borca, there is in program a guided tour to the former Eni Village.
The Colonia (summer camp building), the Church and the cottages will be open for the visiting guests.
The Colonia, in particular in these months, was the main project-site of progettoborca, daily crossed, inhabited, lived by the artists invited in residence. Saturday the 8th, it will be the turn of Sandra Hauser and Stefano Moras, in residence in Borca since four weeks.
During the open-studio they will present a series of artworks and installations realized in Borca. Many other artists will take part in the open-studio, presenting their artworks. Learn more.

The guided tour and the open-studio will start at 2 pm and will end around 5 pm. The meeting is at the Ufficio Vendite (Sales Office).
How to get there >>

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

During the weekend of the 8th and 9th of November, Dolomiti Contemporanee proposes two closing events for the Fall season, in borca di cadore (progettoborca) and at the nuovo spazio di casso.

On Saturday November the 8th, in Borca, there a guided tour of the former Eni Village, in which Dolomiti Contemporanee  has been working in for a few months, thanks to the partnership with the minoter-cualbu group, is scheduled
The Colonia (Eng: summer camp building), the Church and the cottages will be open for the visiting guests.
The Colonia, in particular in these months, was the main project-site of progettoborca, daily crossed, inhabited, lived by the artists invited in residence. Saturday the 8th, it will be the turn of Sandra Hauser and Stefano Moras, in residence in Borca since four weeks.
The Colonia (summer camp building), the church and the cottages will be open for the visiting guests. The Colonia, in these few months in particular, was the main project-site of progettoborca, daily crossed, inhabited, lived by the artists invited in Residence. Saturday the 8th, it will be the turn of Sandra Hauser and Stefano Moras, who have remained in residence in Borca for four weeks.
During the open-studio they will present a series of artworks and installations realised in Borca. A complex endeavor, theirs, which gives back a new image, a myriad of prompts, to rethink the meaning, the present, the destiny of this extraordinary place. Its potential is huge, and we’re trying to reactivate it now, through imagination and planning (the imaginative planning).
Marta Allegri will present, then, a work-in-progress, first glimpse of an artwork that will be completed next spring.
Fabiano De Martin will present a previously unreleased large wooden sculpture.
Many other artists whom have worked in the past few months in the village, during this first season of progettoborca will be there, too: they will lead to the discovery of their artworks scattered in the enormous compound, no longer abandoned, of the Colonia.
Stefano Cagol will be attending with The Body of Energy, a transnational nomadic project which moves through Europe, stopping in different places of production of physical and cultural energy. TBOE will arrive in Borca on the 8th of November ad on the 9th in Casso. It will gather portraits of energy, interacting with the surroundings and involving the public (the project is supported by RWE foundation).
For more details on the event, click here.

The following day, sunday 9 November, in Casso, the two exhibitions now on show at the Nuovo Spazio (meteorite in giardino and paths) will close down. In the afternoon, Sandra Hauser and Fabrizio De Bon will give life to a  sound performance in duet, playing instruments and tools in front of Mount Toc.
Then, wine and chestnuts.
For the details of this event click here.