Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival

Program curated by Archive, SPRINT, Standards

Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival is a multidisciplinary festival dedicated to music, performing arts, video, publishing, graphic design and other media.
For the first edition of the festival, Pirelli HangarBicocca has selected three curatorial and production projects active in Milan — Archive, SPRINT and Standards — which over the years have distinguished themselves for the array of their research and the capability to blend an international outlook with a special attention to local communities and audiences.
The festival’s program unfolds over two evenings of performances, screenings, concerts, DJ sets, visual and editorial displays, involving teams and artists selected by the three guest organizations.

Special Projects

11-12 July - 7PM-1AM

PROGRAMME

11 July 7PM-11PM
Programme curated by SPRINT

7PM: Alessandro Guerriero [Atelier Alchimia] in conversation with Marta Zanoni | Books As Hooks #3 (30' - loop)

8.10PM: Muna Mussie | Choral study for singular movements

8.35PM: Virginia Genta | Improvisation for Amplified Sopranino Sax

9.25PM: Muna Mussie | Choral study for singular movements

9.50PM: YaYa Bones | dust 2 dust

11 July 11PM-1AM
Programme curated by Standards

11PM: Chillera | Live concert

11.50PM: Afrorack | Live concert

12 July 7PM-11PM
Programme curated by Archive

7PM: Fedoua El Attari | DecaDance of the mountain: dance decline decolonization

7.30PM: Wissal Houbabi | Una gran puzza di merda nell’aria. Dedicated a Youns El Boussettaoui

8PM: Yon Natalie Mik | Songs from the Navel to the Spine

8.40PM: Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin | Premonition

9.30PM: Padmini Chettur | line 10

12 July 11PM-1AM
Programme curated by Standards

11PM: Andrea Zarza Canova | Dj set

11.50PM: Coby Sey w/ Leisha Thomas and Momoko Gill | Live concert

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SPRINT—a non-profit, artist-led, independent publishing and book platform that creates an environment for accommodating accents, whispers and reverberations in an exploration in which multiple media and languages emerge around print, performance, sound and words. A constellation of indefinable convergences, worlds and ways to discover alternative perspectives and multiple voices. Throughout the evening a limited edition series of posters curated by Virginia Genta, YaYa Bones, Atelier Alchimia, Collletttivo and SPRINT will be displayed for the public to take.

SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists' Books Salon

SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists' Books Salon was set up in 2013, from an idea of the non-profit association O', curated by artist Dafne Boggeri. It is a non-profit artist-led platform, free for publishers and the public, aimed at experimentation and editorial research. It takes place every year in the last weekend of November and includes an Art Book Fair [SMABF] and a dense side program of collaborations with local and international artists. Throughout the year SPRINT turns on with the Warm-Up format as a moment dedicated to specific publishing adventures and titles. SPRINT embraces small projects as well as complex productions that approach to a publishing attitude and the practice of institutional and non-institutional archiving. Books as hooks, deformed formats and stressed techniques. A boundary ballet and sequence symphony, for performing pages | @sprintmilano

Project collaborators: Dafne Boggeri, Ilenia Arosio, Sara Serighelli/O', Marta Zanoni, Giorgia Donnan, Elena Bertacchini, Claudia Augusto

From 7PM - Alessandro Guerriero [Atelier Alchimia]

Alessandro Guerriero [Atelier Alchimia] in conversation with Marta Zanoni
From 7PM Books As Hooks #3
Video on loop – 30'

Book As Hooks is a series produced by SPRINT that investigates the editorial dimension through a video format triggered by an off-screen conversation in which various printed media are shown, moved and flicked through, bit by bit, to reveal their story and that of the people who were part of them. A choreography of moving forearms and pages, which in this 3rd episode sees Alessandro Guerriero in dialogue with researcher Marta Zanoni. An opportunity to browse through the legendary issues of OLLO (1988), the catalogue Architetture Sussuranti (1981) and some rare documents that weave together the anecdotes of the group and the many interdisciplinary collisions that took place over the years.

Alessandro Guerriero (Milano, 1943), "non-architect" designer and artist, in 1976 founded Alchimia, one of the liveliest groups in the evolution of Italian post-avant-garde design. He has devoted his time to architectural, editorial and educational experimentation. He is the founder of Futurarium in Ravenna, while in Milan he set up the Domus Academy (1987), and he directed NABA (2000) and the free non-school Tam Tam (2012) together with Mendini and Dalisi. His works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, among others.

8.10PM and 9.25PM - Muna Mussie

Muna Mussie
8.10PM and 9.25PM Choral study for singular movements
Performance

A performative moment, the outcome of the workshop curated by the artist, around research into collective dance, postures and choral rhythms, developed within the Monte Verità 'summer school' [Ticino, Ascona], founded in 1913 by the choreographer Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman, with the participation of, among others, Isadora Duncan, Charlotte Bara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Suzanne Perrottet, Katja Wulff, Berthe Trümpy. The micro-choreographies will be played out in the public dimension of the festival, in a moment of informal release.

The interdisciplinary work of Muna Mussie (Eritrea, 1978), poised between gesture, vision and word, investigates the languages of the stage, performing arts and visual arts to give shape to the tension that is triggered between different expressive extremes. Muna Mussie's work has been presented in different national and international contexts: Xing/Raum and Live Arts Week Bologna, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin, Workspace Brussels, Kaaistudio's Brussels, MAMbo Bologna, Santarcangelo Festival, Museion Bolzano, Biennale Atlas of Transitions, Rue d'Alger - Manifesta 13 Marseille, Archive Books, SAVVY Contemporary, Short Theatre Rome. Muna Mussie is an artist supported by apap - Feminist Futures.

8.35PM - Virginia Genta

Virginia Genta
8.35PM Improvisation for Amplified Sopranino Sax
Sound performance and ambient decoration

With a sopranino sax and two amplifiers, Virginia Genta creates noise and electric vortices, giving rise to surprising and unexpected encounters between sustained feedback and deformed textures, the result of the circular breathing that feeds the instrument.
In the hypnotic progression, the tones change and blur, in a movement that seems to translate visually into the artist's drawings which, like sticky silhouettes, punctuate the oxidised metal 'tapestries' of the Pirelli HangarBicocca's gates. Signs as interior landscapes, the lines bounce and manifest as dynamic flickers, surfacing in a dance of the elements, psychedelic and disruptive. The artist will also welcome the participants to the festival with a stamp designed by her, thus creating a first performative action that, the following day, will help to evoke the dimension crossed.

Virginia Genta is a visual artist and musician, devoted to experimentation as a means of human and spiritual growth. Her drawing is an inner landscape, based on the infinite potential of line and point, sparse yet profoundly multidimensional. As a musician, she focuses on a dimension of improvised sound, choosing the saxophone as her favourite instrument. In recent years, with the Jooklo Duo project, she has played among others with John Paul Jones, in the show 'Nearly Ninety' of the choreographer Merce Cunningham, at the Barbican Theatre in London and at the Teatro del Canal in Madrid. Together with David Vanzan she curates the marginal research and experimental music label Troglosound.

9.50PM - YaYa Bones

YaYa Bones
9.50PM dust 2 dust
Musical performance

Artist YaYa Bones produces an eclectic fusion of electronic music and opera, suspended and whispered rhythms of a pulsating underground environment in a style that Bones themselves call ~ dream ‘n’ bass~. Music as a ritual of protest dedicated to witches, non-binary love songs and apocalyptic lullabies for a phase of regenerative 'reawakening', inspired by the imperceptible sounds of wild herbs, siren songs and invoked by the ears of the ancestral figures that have gone before us. Their debut EP EARTHEART (2020) was self-produced with support from the Serpentine Galleries' General Ecology program.

YaYa Bones is the musical alter-ego of Bones Tan Jones (Liverpool, 1993), a London-based artist, musician and performer. Their work is a spiritual practice that explores dystopia in search of sustainable alternatives, traversing the dimensions of sound, ritual, meditation, hand-crafting, movement and the concept of 'other'. Bones weaves a micellar web of multiple narratives that aim to connect audiences in a dimension of eco-conscious exchange. They are co-founder of Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club, a self-defence course for women, non-binary people and QTIPoC. They founded Fertile Souls, a pharmacy and survival skills community | @yaya.bones

Collletttivo

Collletttivo
Apfel Grotezk Up-Date

Apfel Grotezk is a typeface designed by Luigi Gorlero for the Open-Source Collletttivo platform. Starting with Apfel Regular, for SPRINT 2019, the group has developed the Apfel Brukt version, an eco-friendly design oriented around a low carbon footprint, saving up to 18% ink when printing. On the occasion of the Milano Re-Mapped Festival, SPRINT is inviting Collletttivo to extend Apfel Grotezk by equipping it with a series of neutral glyphs, to make the typeface an even more porous communication tool for today's needs. The complete font will be downloadable from 11 July at this link to be used freely, both for personal and commercial projects, always indicating the credit of the author Luigi Gorlero @2xlgorle and of Collletttivo @collletttivo.

Collletttivo is a digital platform dedicated to the spread of original typefaces through an Open-Source philosophy. The project is dedicated to an expanding community of typography enthusiasts who can learn and improve through practice and interaction. Founded in 2017 in Milan, Italy, the group has consolidated around a small core of people in continuous contact with designers, both Italian and international, who collaborate by releasing typefaces available for free download at the url: collletttivo.it

Standards presents two live sound performances and invites participation through collective listening. Intentional events collide with unintentional events: it’s all about creating situations for certain things to exist at the same time, for all these alignments of presences, practices and relationships to occur. Live music is in fact another way of rendering the complexity of everyday experience: we are here to take part in it. Happy listening.

STANDARDS

Music, like history, is a collective activity.
People make music with others and play music to others
— Raven Chacon, 2019

Standards is an independent space dedicated to music and to sound and performing arts. The project was founded in Milan in 2015 as a flexible platform to enable local and international exchanges. The programming hosts live performances, workshops, residencies, productions and presentations. We recognise the responsibility of our independent nature in creating the conditions for invited guests to find a situation conducive to the free expression and circulation of ideas, while respecting communities, research quality and equity. Standards is a collective project by Attila Faravelli, Enrico Gilardi, Michele Lori, Gaia Martino, Roberta Pagani, Nicola Ratti and is animated by the non-profit cultural association Terzo Paesaggio, active since 2012 in the spreading of music and performance projects.

Project collaborators: Attila Faravelli, Enrico Gilardi, Michele Lori, Gaia Martino, Roberta Pagani, Nicola Ratti

11PM - Chillera

Chillera

11PM Live concert

Anastasiia Marukutsa (drums), Polina Matskevich (guitar) and Ganna Brizhata (bass).
Chillera is a band from Odesa formed in Crimea, where Anya and Polina worked together on a construction site. For three months during the summer, they played musical instruments, listened to hi-life and King Tubby and enjoyed the beauty of the landscapes. Some of the workers wore jackets with the 'Chillers' labels of air conditioning systems, which became the band name 'Chillera', meaning 'relax', 'meditation' and 'cool'. Their music expresses quality sound research that reconfigures the dub genre through a perspective situated in the spaces and aesthetics of Ukrainian culture.
In addition to the Chillera music project, together with Sasha Franko and Slavko Breus they organise the ODS festival on the banks of the Kuyalnyk estuary, one hour from Odesa. They released their EP Schax in 2017 on the Ukrainian independent label Muscut, then Pro Fun (10" vinyl), 2019 and Live from Odesa (C-60, cassette), 2021 both released on Muscut.

11.50PM - Afrorack

Afrorack
11.50PM Live concert

Bamanya Brian is a Ugandan multidisciplinary and experimental artist known by the name of Afrorack. He is one of the pioneers of building electronic music instruments in Africa and creates circuits, hacks devices and plays with microcontrollers. Brian re-appropriates a self-proclaimed European technology - 'Eurorack' is the name of the universal modular synth format from the 1990s onwards - by manually building his modular system.
He has created projects in sound art, electronics, radio, spatialisations, electronic music, kinetic sculptures, audio-video experimentations and with renewable energies. He has worked with Korg, Behringer and Arturia and carried out projects with some of them. He has participated in several local and international festivals, including Atlas Electronic in Morocco, Nyege in Uganda, CTM Festival in Germany and Dakar Art Biennale in Senegal. He has also participated as speaker in several international conferences such as Africa Synthesized 2020, organised by the African Institute of Music and Innovation and With For About Conference 2020, organised by Heart of Glass UK. His work has also appeared in international media and publications such as Shado Magazine, Arte tracks, Pan African Music and Radio France International (RFI).

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Muna Mussie | Choral study for singular movements pt 1

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Virginia Genta | Improvisation for Amplified Sopranino Sax

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Muna Mussie | Choral study for singular movements pt 2

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YaYa Bones | dust 2 dust

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Chillera | Live concert

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Afrorack| Live concert

12 JULY - DETAILED PROGRAMME

On the occasion of Milano Re-Mapped, Archive presents an activation of the formation Choreopoethics. This formation allows Archive to rehearse forms of collective movement, thinking through bodies in dialogue, encompassing choreography, poethics (Denise Ferreira da Silva), movement improvisation, traversing choreopolitics (André Lepecki) and choreography of protest.
In a world in crisis, radical imagination would require asking what we would risk together, to gain something altogether different. Choreopoethics allows us to experiment with forms of collective subjectivity.
Movements that involve one body moving with another, rooted in participatory as well as relational modes of choreographic thought, have much to offer to theories of social mobilization. Choreopoethics is our collective rehearsal of poetics, for political movements to come.

ARCHIVE

Archive is a community of practitioners, a not-for-profit art space and publishing house in its thirteenth year. It is a decentralized organization operating from multiple sites in Berlin, Milan and Dakar. Archive is a space of gathering, for autonomous and critical thinking, engaging with trans-generational and extra-disciplinary programs. Archive has published books and programmed with a list of artists from different socio-political and cultural spaces, art institutions, and biennales, such as Documenta 14, Venice Biennale, Bamako Biennale, Manifesta 13, Pune Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Bergen Assembly, FRAME, Tate Modern, Savvy Contemporary and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Project collaborators: Aziza Ahmad, Malab Alneel, Zasha Colah, Leila Bencharnia, Lilia Di Bella, Matilde Doni, Chiara Figone, Omar Gabriel Delnevo, Amelie Jakubek, Emanuela Maltese, Gaia Martino, Rebeca Pak, Iman Salem, Francesca Verga

7PM - Fedoua El Attari

Fedoua El Attari
7PM DecaDance of the mountain: dance decline decolonization
Spoken word

This new writing by Fedoua El Attari, in which spoken words hold many meanings, considers how various mountains are sites of memory of the mass suicides by runaway slaves. Today, these mountains have become a polyphonic landscape of a creole, collective memory of resistance. Movement is manifested through the conscious, free fall of the body. The rhythmic reverberation of the voice as it falls, remains in permanence. The choice of the human being to resist oppression, through the force of morality, is expressed as an ultimate act of liberation.

Fedoua El Attari studies architecture, museum and exhibition design. She is a cultural promoter of activities in museums, educational, socio-urban and publishing contexts. For El Attari, poetry is an empathic means of knowledge, sharing, denunciation and freedom, becoming the representative voice of populations that express, manifest, and share globally ethnic, ethical, linguistic and emotional symbolism in common. El Attari calls her writing "PoeTerapy: the word as a listening cure" | @fedua_elattari

7.30PM - Wissal Houbabi

Wissal Houbabi
7.30PM Una gran puzza di merda nell’aria. Dedicated to Youns El Boussettaoui
Spoken word

A spoken word action by Wissal Houbabi with elements of rap, hip-hop and storytelling.
«I’ll just ask them to sit in a certain chair, in a certain position: a way of feeling at the mercy of events, of the decisions of others. I was very inspired by the questura ». Translated from Italian, A colpi di rap contro il machismo: la lezione di Wissal Houbabi, L'Espresso, 2021.

Wissal Houbabi, born in Khouribga, is a poet performer, artist, and freelance writer. She moves in various fields, from research on hip hop feminism to writing short stories that explore the condition of diasporic culture, and is among the authors of Future (effequ, 2019). She is the performer and voice of her oral poetry performances: Che Razza di Rap (2019), Taroots (2020), Scrivere con i piedi (2021), La Muta (2022). She has collaborated to realize workshops, courses, poetry projects with various cultural, artistic research and education institutions, including IUAV, Goethe Institut, and MamBo. She is on the board of the association Il Razzismo è una Brutta Storia (Milano), collaborating on projects and poetry events with the spoken music collective Zoopalco_ZPL (Bologna) and the poetry prize with Musica Alberto Dubito (Milano/Treviso). She has been published in various anthologies and magazines on hip hop poetry and culture from a decolonial and intersectional viewpoint | @wissalhoubabi

8PM - Yon Natalie Mik

Yon Natalie Mik
8PM Songs from the Navel to the Spine
with sound by Gregory Lenczycki
Collective action

Yon Natalie Mik will mobilize a collective act of squatting for 1000 bodies through her new work Songs from the Navel to the Spine, a participatory performance as part of her ongoing project Studies on Squats (2019-2022). The performance invites everyone to take part in building a choreography of protest and mourning for the censored and marginalized bodies among us. While our squatting bodies conceptually and kinetically embody the history and resilience of these vulnerable bodies, it is their bodies that continue to inspire us to imagine other possibilities of (co-)existence.

Yon Natalie Mik is an artist, performer and dance scholar working across choreography, image and text. She grew up between Germany and South Korea before moving to Los Angeles and Berlin, where she is currently based. After studying classical ballet, Korean and Indonesian folk dances, she received a BA from the University of Bonn and an MA from Seoul National University. Since 2021 she is a doctoral candidate in dance studies and works as a research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Yon Natalie Mik's work has been presented internationally at museums, galleries and alternative spaces in Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Seoul and Taipei.

8.40PM - Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
8.40PM Premonition
with sound by F. De Isabella
Movement and writing

‘To live in proximity to death is to live in the space of the premonition
-Bahaar Ahsan, 'Cut the apricot in half and remove the pit can only get in your way', We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, eds. Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel, 2020

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin's performance explores the relationship between debris and the geographies inscribed in bodies. Working on the reappropriation of somatic geographies from a decolonial perspective, Premonition oscillates between language, movement and sound. Here, vibration becomes a method. The oscillation of a pendulum used as a divinatory object moves with underground currents, and is an antidote to the compass. The pendulum becomes an object of healing.

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an artist and independent researcher of Armenian descent working in the contexts of movement and live performance. Their research is built of a collection of pedagogic and performative events that focus on experiencing pleasure as a form of resistance to systemic oppression, by relating a queer/transfeminist approach to somatic practices. Trained in dance, their work exists in the shape of movement-video-text-sound-gatherings and deals with narratives of hostility, survival strategies, rest, friction, sensuality, and healing.

9.30PM - Padmini Chettur

Padmini Chettur
9.30PM line 10
with lighting by Jan Maertens and sound by Maarten Visser
Choreography

Padmini Chettur performs line 10, a retrospective of lines she has danced as a soloist throughout her career. Light will travel with her along a 37-meter outer wall of Pirelli HangarBicocca's "Shed", as will the sound. The trajectory of her movement maintains a continuous internal rotation, and in the transitions between the two and three-dimensional body, the space itself may appear to move.

Padmini Chettur began her contemporary dance career in 1990 as a member of the troupe of Chandralekha—the radical Bharatanatyam modernist choreographer whose own opus dealt with a rigorous deconstruction of the form. Over the past two decades, Chettur has defined her choreographic idiom—minimalist, abstract and formal—stripping movement down to an essential, anatomical investigation, prioritizing a sense of tension over emotion. Since her solo work Beautiful thing 2 (2011), and in later works—Wall dancing (2013), Varnam (2013) —her work has been seen in visual art spaces like steirischer herbst (Graz), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Cochin), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Jejak-Tabi (Jogja), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Archive (Berlin), as her practice extended into film and durational works. Her most recent work, philosophical enactment with writer Aveek Sen was performed at Contemporaneity (Toronto), Akademi der Kunst (Berlin), and TPAM (Yokohama).

STANDARDS

Music, like history, is a collective activity.
People make music with others and play music to others
— Raven Chacon, 2019

Project collaborators: Attila Faravelli, Enrico Gilardi, Michele Lori, Gaia Martino, Roberta Pagani, Nicola Ratti

11PM - Andrea Zarza Canova

Andrea Zarza Canova
23.00 Dj set

Andrea Zarza Canova is an archivist and curator. She currently works for independent projects and at the British Library Sound Archive. Andrea presents for the occasion a musical and sound selection which, through performative action and collective listening, aims to give a voice to the uniqueness of individual narratives and investigate frictions and opportunities between presentation contexts and archival content.
As an independent curator, she co-manages the Mana label, which publishes sound works at the intersection of contemporary and archival sounds by artists such as Pierre Mariétan, Luc Ferrari, Nicolás Jaar and De Leon. She has also curated exhibitions and installations exploring sound and listening as cultural, political and social phenomena, including the Meltdown Listening Lounge for David Byrne's Meltdown Festival, Southbank Centre, London, Charivaria at CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain and All in a Day's Work at the Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. She produces and hosts a regular programme for NTS Radio, where she highlights the complexities and contradictions of ethnographic sound recordings from the British Library's collections.

11.50PM - Coby Sey

Coby Sey w/ Leisha Thomas and Momoko Gill
23.50 Live concert

Coby Sey is a producer, vocalist and DJ, who, after years spent buzzing around the DIY artist circuitry of South East London, has developed a distinctive presence as a performer and producer offering a shifting, disorienting vision of club music.
A long-time collaborator with Mica Levi, Tirzah, Babyfather, Klein, and Kwes, Coby’s recorded work spans the realms of live instrumentation, sample-based productions and experimental music, melding recognisable motifs of hip hop, drone, jazz, grime and more into a dubbed-out anaesthesia.
On stage, these dreamlike compositions are imbued with a heavy, uneasy dancefloor energy, and fleshed out by live instrumentation courtesy of regular cohorts Alpha Maid, Momoko Gill and Ben Vince.
Coby’s open-door approach to sharing and making music stretches to his work with London collective CURL, who release records and host events with a collaborative, improvisatory approach. He also hosts a monthly show on NTS radio, which offers a portal into his appealingly murky musical world.
Coby’s long awaited debut album ‘Conduit’ will be released on September 9th through AD93.

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