Palace in a cloud

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 > h. 18.00
OPENING SPACE AND INTRODUCTION TO nuvolario
with Veronica Franchi, dramaturg

> h. 18:30-19:30
PIANO PHASE AND SIX PIANOS of STEVE REICH
concert for two pianos, with Andrea Rebaudengo and Bruna Di Virgilio

In two masterpieces of North American minimalism, Piano Phase (1967) and Six Pianos (1973), the process of phase shifting becomes the very essence of Steve Reich’s music. Repeating note patterns that gradually move out of sync with one another create complex rhythmic and harmonic textures in constant motion, in which the sounds of the pianos continually align and misalign. Loops, echoes, dynamics, resonances, timing: the relationship between the musicians evolves as the performance unfolds, through a constant movement of the parts that draws the audience into a hypnotic and immersive perceptual experience.
duration 45:00 min / free entry

> from 7:30 pm* (*first screening, then every 33 min)
CLOUD STUDIES
film by Forensic Architecture

Clouds are always double. Seen from the outside they are measurable objects, seen from the inside they are experiential conditions of optical blurring and atmospheric darkness. Today’s clouds are both environmental and political. Their toxic haze is easily shrouded in lethal doubt. When denial obscures acts of violence and worsens the harm, we, inhabitants of toxic clouds, must find new means of resistance.
duration 32:59 min / free entry

> from 8:00 pm
TASTING BETWEEN CLOUDS
with Giacomo Lorandi, culinary researcher and chef

Small cloud-inspired tastings lead the senses upward. Light fermentations and air-based cooking offer ephemeral textures, evoking the lightness and constant transformation of clouds, and create a shared rhythm of suspension and return. To close the evening, a communal buffet extends conviviality and restores the collective dimension of the gathering, weaving taste and connection into a celestial landscape to be experienced together.
participation fee 5 Euro

> Bruna di Virgilio (pianist and cellist)
she is involved in contemporary, electronic, and experimental music projects. She works as a collaborative pianist, as a musician and sound designer for theatre, and conducts research in the field of education and pedagogy.

> Andrea Rebaudengo (pianist)
member of the ensemble Sentieri selvaggi, also has a vast solo and chamber repertoire, focused especially on the last hundred years of music. He teaches at the Milan Conservatory and leads a seminar at the Lugano Conservatory:

> Forensic Architecture (research agency)
is based at Goldsmiths, University of London. FA investigates human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists through legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. 

 

> Giacomo Lorandi (chef, fermenter, and culinary researcher)
is graduated in economics with a master's degree in food innovation. He places food at the center of his professional and personal inquiry, not only as a finished product, but as an ecosystem of places, knowledge, and people. He loves the practice of fermentation to create new and different flavors, but above all as an example of inter-species cooperation. His cuisine reflects his ethics: respect for raw materials and those who produce them, seasonality, and waste reduction.