research
theory fiction: the capacity of artistic and cultural products and processes to fuse theoretical elements [philosophy, academic texts, scientific data] with narrative and aesthetic ones [speculative fiction, science fiction, worldbuilding]. like artistic practice, a tool to narrate the complexity of the contemporary world and reconnect people to the time and space they live in, against the extraction of resources and data and the post-truth drift of storytelling. here art suspends ontology: new worlds, alien points of view, a new balance between human and non-human.
A relational approach, built on the connection between the practice and the community, environment and context in which it takes place: the river as a common, the human/non-human relationship, the nature-culture dialectic.
full statement →programmes and platforms
Fluviale
Public programme of Spazio Hydro, co-curated with Annalisa Zegna, investigating the human/non-human relationship and the nature-culture dialectic through talks, workshops, walks along the Cervo and moments of visual and performing arts. Seasons in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (with Floating Forest).
spaziohydro.com/fluviale ↗Osservatorio sul Torrente
Interdisciplinary research platform on the Cervo torrent as a common and as a central element in the social, political, cultural and economic life of the Biella area: collecting research, activating participatory experiences and building a new collective narrative of the relationship with the river.
cervo project room | archive →Spazio Hydro
Independent cultural centre in Biella, within Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, active in the design, development and experimentation of new forms of cultural experience.
Floating Forest, 2023 — regeneration of the area in front of Hydro, from a parking lot to an open space for the community, through participatory design and self-construction workshops.
spaziohydro.com ↗