Nomadic School 2025

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Nomadic School is an alternative mentorship programme rooted in the Alps and artistic practice. Started in 2020, the school emerged around the Little Fun Palace trailer, nomadic and flexible architecture inspired by architect Cedric Price and theatremaker Joan Littlewood's Fun Palace.

Created by OHT with the intention of fostering exchange among people and bridging the representational distance cultivated by art institutions, over the years Little Fun Palace has been lost in the landscape, giving rise to he Nomadic School and its interaction with the alpine territory. The nomadism of the caravan has become a geographical, artistic, and sentimental approach, capable of continually reinventing its models to foster a free, active, and interrelated environment of artistic exchange.

A central concept to both the school and the book is the notion of spatial-creation — how performative practices create space, both in the architecture of theatres and beyond the theatre as institution — as well as the intersection of disciplines that bridges artistic practices with environmentally-oriented social movements. We actively question what happens when performance is taken outside of closed, institutional spaces, and what could happen when uncontrolled and dynamic environments become factors or participants in the development of performative practices, as well as in other artistic areas.

Nomadic School takes place every summer in Trentino/Alto Adige - Südtirol in the Italian Alps, more than 2000 meters above sea level. For 15 days it brings together a diverse community of mentors and participants who are engaged in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, choreography, glaciology, geology, stage design, sound curation, dramaturgy, visual and literary arts, and anthropology. This group of people is invited to inhabit a context that offers an opportunity to examine art practices through the lens of the alpine landscape while observing its pedagogical effect. The Nomadic School 2026 will take place from June 8 to 20, 2026, at Malga Valagola, in the Adamello Brenta group (Alps, Italy).

Combining individuality and collective moments, the Nomadic School creates open spaces of experimentation in which heterogeneous experiences and knowledge interact horizontally and non-hierarchically in relation to the landscape in the form of workshops, laboratories and dialogic moments, creating a unique and shared time of research, life and study.

when

8>20.VI.2025

where

Malga Valagola, Brenta Dolomites

mentors

> Lina Lapelytè (artist and musician) 

> Sarah Johanna Theurer (curator and writer) 

> Filippo Andreatta (artist and curator) 

 > Giulia Crispiani (writer and visual artist)

> Giacomo Lorandi (chef, fermenter, and gastronomic researcher)

  > Maria Isidora Vincentelli (dancer and performance maker, ex Nomadic)

> Kris Krois (designer and facilitator for social-ecological transformation)

> Erica Cova (meterologist) 

> Beatrice Citterio (eco-social designer and researcher, ex Nomadic

participants

Giulia Ciola
Demelza Watts
Esth Fantuzzi
Bianca Maria Negrini
Ian Strahn
Camilla Ventura
Laura - Maria Vahimets
Sonja Bijelic
Elsa Cailletaud
Maryame El Qabach
Nina Nikic
Aditi Kapoor

production history

from 26.VIII to 30.VIII.20 > Mountain Bondone, natural biotope, Trentino > a.s.l. 1600 > I Nomadic School
from 23.VIII to 29.VIII.21 > Mountain Bondone, natural biotope, Trentino > a.s.l. 1600 > II Nomadic School
from 25.VI to 03.VII.22 > Vajolet’s towers, Trentino > a.s.l. 2243 > III Nomadic School
from 15.VI to 26.VI.23 > Adamello Brenta Natural Park, Trentino > a.s.l. 1860 > IV Nomadic School
from 02.VI to 14.VI.24 > Sas de Pütia, Alto Adige / Südtirol > a.s.l. 2006 > V Nomadic School
from 8.VI to 20.VI.25 > Val D'Agola, Adamello Brenta> a.s.l. 2006 > V Nomadic School