MOST 2025
MOST is an imaginary bridge that crosses space time dimensions and boundaries.
A passage, an experiment.
Stories and memories, traces and wonders.
Houses open up, forests are walked through, nature and culture intertwine.
MOST is a bridge between historic and new inhabitants, and between generations.
It is a bridge between village life and the arts, between what is imaginable and real.
Venerdì / Petek / Friday → 22 August
17h00 Presentation of MOST and opening of the installations by
Antônio Frederico Lasalvia, Attila Faravelli, Elena Rucli, Francesco Schievano, Seiiji Morimoto, Thomas Lehn, Titta C. Raccagni, Tiziana Bertoncini, Valerio Bergnach.
19h30 SYNKLAVIA ← for piano and analogue synthesizer
Thomas Lehn → Pihuova
In SYNKLAVIA, Thomas Lehn fuses his lifelong partners—the piano and the analogue synthesizer—into a new instrument: a kind of synthesizer-prepared piano. In the realisation for MOST, he will open the windows of the Pihuova house to project the interwoven acoustic and electronic sounds into the outdoor spaces.
ca. 20h15 Chapati dinner
with Blaso ← Chiosco
21h30 CATCH ← for voice & objects
Ute Wassermann → Vecchia scuola
In this piece Ute's voice mixes with the sound of bird whistles, membranes and percussion objects. Highly amplified, her voice creates screaming, breathing and coloratura-like sound turbulence. She improvises with concepts that are expanded, changed or destroyed on stage in a constant process of creation.
Sabato / Sobota / Saturday → 23 August
15h00 Opening of the installations
16h00 STRANGE SONGS ← for voice and bird whistles
Ute Wassermann → Stamorčak
Ute Wassermann masks her voice with bird whistles creating a hybrid vocal persona with sculptural, oscillating, swirling tone-colours. The vocal sounds seem to be disconnected from the human voice dissolving into the sounds of birds, of machines, of electronics, scraps of otherworldly language.
17h00 SOTTILI TRAME , OVVERO CAMMINATA DELL'ATTENZIONE
Alessandra Breda → Stamorčak
What does the forest sound like to my nose? How does it sound to my ears? And who does my skin meet along the way? How much of me, from step to step, can call itself a forest too? What subtle texture is perceptible when I allow my sight to become a threshold between the reality I know and so much that is unknown to me, imagined, dreamed?
18h00 INFRASOTTILE ← for violin and dance
Tiziana Bertoncini e Barbara Stimoli → nel bosco
Inframince, for M. Duchamp, is an interval between what is barely still possible and what is already impossible to perceive, it is an effective and at the same time elusive presence" Infrasottile is the trace of a daily practice of listening to and perceiving the forest, a dialogue "on the borders between what is imagined, unimaginable and real". (Laura Pugno, Noi senza mondo, Marsilio ed. 2024)
20h00 Aperitivo and prese del progetto UNCOMMON FRUITS
ERBA (Philipp Kolmann e Suzanne Bernhardt) e Robida → Chiosco
Uncommon Fruits is a project born from the collaboration between the extended Robida collective (Topolò, Benečija) and Zavod Cepika (Kojsko, Goriška Brda) that investigates two different landscapes through the lens of fruit trees: one, Goriška Brda, characterised by an almost-monoculture of vine and the other, the one surrounding Topolò, by abandonment.
ca. 20h30 Dinner
with ERBA → Chiosco
21h30 Night Installations
Domenica / Nedelja / Sunday → 24 August
10h00 TRA IL BLU E IL VERDE ← Cianotipia workshop
Lara Carrer → Casa di Lara
The workshop is conceived for kids, but it’s open to the participation of all.
11h30 PER UNA CURA MULTISPECIE
Titta C. Raccagni → dalla Vecchia Scuola
In a place like Topolò, the relationship between the human and the other than human becomes an embodied practice of everyday life, a challenge to one's limits, an act of multispecies care.
ca. 13h00 Gnocchi Lunch
Elena Braida → Chiosco
15h00 CACCIA AL TESORO
Lǝ bambinǝ di Topolò: Amalia, Greta, Sofia, Dora, Sol → dal Potok
Per lǝ bambinǝ di Topolò attraversare il bosco ed arrivare al mulino da solǝ è stata una conquista di terreno fertile per le loro storie, di fiducia nelle loro possibilità, di appartenenza ad un luogo che non finisce con i confini del paese, che spontaneamente con il bosco, il torrente, le pozze. Ora saremo noi a cercare lungo il cammino che tanto amano le tracce e gli indizi nascosti che ci porteranno al loro tesoro, riassaporando la meraviglia e la gioia, lo stupore e il timore, di quando da piccoli si fa sul serio.
INSTALLATIONS
SINFONIA INVISIBILE
Tiziana Bertoncini → Stamorčak
A series of tubes hanging from the trees filter the surrounding sounds, producing different frequencies; a delicate and silent presence within the place. By approaching the work, everyone can create an intimate relationship with it, listening to their own private symphony.
MUSEO DEGLI OBJETS TROUVÉS
Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Francesco Schievano → Cantina casa Pihuova
Relics found in the lands, in abandoned houses and cellars. Lost objects, traces of other lives, of other stories.
UN GIORNO A SCUOLA
Francesco Schievano con la partecipazione di Italo, Angela, Aldo → Memihova hiša
Topolò, 1950. The municipal school is too small and not enough to accommodate all the girls and boys of the village, which in those years still had a few hundred inhabitants. But studying is a need and so the houses open up, families welcome and transform a simple room in their home into a first grade classroom. Through the live stories of some of the inhabitants of Topolò, we will rediscover some of the traces and memories of that part of the 20th century, a difficult post-war period, a time of hardship but also of inventiveness and community warmth.
Installation open:
Friday: from 18 to 19
Saturaday: from 10.30 to 11.30 and from 15 to 16
Sunday: from 10 to 11
DIVERTISSEMENT N.1
Titta C. Raccagni → al Cinema
Of light, shadow, and drops. An unpretentious analog experiment.
SUBTERRANEAN TRANSACTIONS
Antônio Federico Lasalvia → sul muro della Jeukina Hiša
In 2023, within the time frame of daylight, the land belonging to two bordering countries was clandestinely swapped. In place of what was previously national soil, now there lies ground coming from the opposite side of the border. The exchange was realized in the authoritative limbo that characterizes the limit between two sovereign states. As a symbolic gesture executed over an immaterial historical division, it disrupts an imaginary line that divides an otherwise continuous experience of the land.
DISEGNO IN SUONO
Elena Rucli → Fienile di Romano
Drawing in Sound is Radio Robida's radio programme, started in 2022, which investigates drawing not in its visual form of image and composition, but in its sound aspect. For this installation, the sounds of marks (pencil, ink, pen) on paper were collected during the evening hours in Topolò.
TRASMISSIONI DAL PASSATO
Valerio Bergnach → giardino della Martinkina Hiša
Sounds and words of the past travel through the air, we can relive them by listening to what this radio installation can tune in. A temporal journey through the Topolò sound, where memory takes shape in the present through listening.
Open Project realised in collaboration with Antonio Della Marina for the 26th edition of Stazione di Topolò / Postaja Topolove.
AURAL TOOLS ← 30 meters stretch
di Seiiji Morimoto e Attila Faravelli → in the village and in the woods
Aural Tools consists of a series of multiples whose purpose is to document the work of certain musicians not through the publication of records (CDs, cassettes or vinyls) but rather by investigating specific ways and processes (material and conceptual) through which sound is produced. The result is a series of objects (in a limited and numbered edition of approximately 50 copies) capable of recreating a specific relationship between sound, space and listener.
MOST is curated and organized by Associazione Topolò Topoluove
Alessandra Breda, Antônio Frederico Lasalvia, Barbara Stimoli, Thomas Lehn, Titta C. Raccagni, Tiziana Bertoncini, Valerio Bergnach
Thanks to: Dora Ciccone, Italo Rucli, Romano Bukovaz, Selena Campeotto, Francesca Zanchi, Christine Pellarini, Angela Gariup, Matilde Malnati, Aldo Trusgnach, Paolo Bucovaz, Maria Gilda Primosig
In collobaration with Robida, the village, the forest and
Blaso → He climbs and opens new routes, he kneads amazing pizzas, he is a physiotherapist, a reggae enthusiast, he plays percussion and digeridoo. He is a wild spirit.
Dora Ciccone → She takes care of houses, especially if they’re abandoned and dusty, and of people, especially if they have a sweet tooth for cake. She keeps company with chickens, donkeys, and curious children. Resident of Topolò 90.
Elena Braida → Elena Braida is an artist and researcher, currently pursuing a PhD in Art, Design and Transdisciplinarity at the IED in Turin. Elena enjoys working at local organic markets, organising creative workshops, experimenting with textile screen-printing and writing about culinary methodologies.
Elena Rucli → Elena Rucli is an architect, teacher, and illustrator. Since 2016, she has been a member of Robida Collective. She lives permanently in Topolò, where she bought a house and is currently renovating a small stone barn, which she plans to turn into a studio. Her passions are drawings and, lately, ceramics.
ERBA → ERBA is a more-than-human collective and trans-local food studio founded by Austrian designer Philipp Kolmann and Dutch artist Suzanne Bernhardt. ERBA tells edible stories that activate all senses and seek to inspire caring relationships between People and Land. studio-erba.com
Franz → Francesco, who has been Franz since moving to Topolò, is an amateur explorer of life and the soul, and appreciates the intrinsic simplicity of things. He loves the forest and cutting wood as a practice of attentiveness and care for the land. He is a builder, a passionate collector of just about anything, yet attentive to nuance.
Lara Carrer → Topolònaut, photographer and lazy explorer.
Ute Wassermann → Ute Wassermann masks her voice with bird whistles creating a hybrid vocal persona with sculptural, oscillating, swirling tone-colours. The vocal sounds seem to be disconnected from the human voice dissolving into the sounds of birds, of machines, of electronics, scraps of otherworldly language. utewassermann.com
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Free entrance
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For information and inquiries about accessibility:
+39 3288111441 , +39 3496446722,(signal, whatsapp)
associazionetopoluove@gmail.com
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How to get here
Associazione Topolò - Topoluove
Fraz. Topolò 1/2
33040 Grimacco (UD)
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Where to stay
Casa Sittaro → Seuza
Casa Lienartova → Seuza
Trattoria La cascata → Clodig
Alloggio da Massimo → Cosizza Superiore
Alloggio da Massimo → Cosizza Superiore
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