Riccardo Apuzzo & Claudia Mendini
Milano - Italy
Stars Inside
Within a cave we create stories of stone and light. An installation of lenses will bring sunlight into the cave. This connection will invite observation of a narrative shaped by astral movements unfolding across the surfaces and vessels where humanity’s first harvest came to rest.
STARS INSIDE was initiated in 2024 by visual artist Claudia Mendini and film maker Riccardo Apuzzo to investigate the relationship between celestial movements, time, and place.
Milano - Italy
Stars Inside
Within a cave we create stories of stone and light. An installation of lenses will bring sunlight into the cave. This connection will invite observation of a narrative shaped by astral movements unfolding across the surfaces and vessels where humanity’s first harvest came to rest.
STARS INSIDE was initiated in 2024 by visual artist Claudia Mendini and film maker Riccardo Apuzzo to investigate the relationship between celestial movements, time, and place.
Stelle Dentro
All'interno di una grotta creiamo storie di pietra e luce. Un'installazione di lenti porterà la luce del sole nella grotta. Questo collegamento inviterà all'osservazione di una narrazione modellata dai movimenti astrali che si dispiegano sulle superfici e sui recipienti dove riposava il primo raccolto dell'umanità.
STELLE DENTRO è nato nel 2024 dall'artista visiva Claudia Mendini e dal regista Riccardo Apuzzo per indagare il rapporto tra i movimenti celesti, il tempo e lo spazio.
Adriene Jenik
Canada
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot @ NAHR is a continuation and expansion of Jenik’s ongoing socially-engaged art practice where she offers “climate future” readings in public spaces with her ECOtarot deck. During the residency Adriene will be studying critical minerals related to climate disruption as she evolves her interpretations of ECOtarot EARTH cards.
Adriene Jenik is an artist, scholar/activist and end-of-life doula who develops and shares creative systems and processes that support personal introspection, social critique, community building and cultural transformation.
Canada
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot @ NAHR is a continuation and expansion of Jenik’s ongoing socially-engaged art practice where she offers “climate future” readings in public spaces with her ECOtarot deck. During the residency Adriene will be studying critical minerals related to climate disruption as she evolves her interpretations of ECOtarot EARTH cards.
Adriene Jenik is an artist, scholar/activist and end-of-life doula who develops and shares creative systems and processes that support personal introspection, social critique, community building and cultural transformation.
ECOtarot @ NAHR
ECOtarot @ NAHR è la continuazione e l'espansione della pratica artistica socialmente impegnata di Adriene, in cui offre letture sul “futuro climatico” in spazi pubblici con il suo mazzo ECOtarot. Durante la residenza studierà i minerali critici legati ai cambiamenti climatici, mentre svilupperà le sue interpretazioni delle carte ECOtarot EARTH.
Adriene Jenik è un'artista, studiosa/attivista e doula di fine vita che sviluppa e condivide sistemi e processi creativi a sostegno dell'introspezione personale, della critica sociale, della costruzione di comunità e della trasformazione culturale.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner
Germany
Solidified Textiles
The project will begin with on site research of locally available materials and will be complemented by photo observation. Through hands-on testing, these materials will be used as filling for sleeves, to create yarns & textile structures at different scales to explore mineral matter through tactile experimentation.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner is a textile designer based in Germany, working across textiles and material research, with an interest in hands-on experimentation, site specific materials and craft traditions. She works in collaborations with universities, and is part of the AC+ collective.
Germany
Solidified Textiles
The project will begin with on site research of locally available materials and will be complemented by photo observation. Through hands-on testing, these materials will be used as filling for sleeves, to create yarns & textile structures at different scales to explore mineral matter through tactile experimentation.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner is a textile designer based in Germany, working across textiles and material research, with an interest in hands-on experimentation, site specific materials and craft traditions. She works in collaborations with universities, and is part of the AC+ collective.
Tessuti Solidificati
Il progetto inizierà con una ricerca sui materiali disponibili localmente. Questa indagine sarà integrata da un'osservazione fotografica. Attraverso test pratici, questi materiali saranno utilizzati come riempitivo per manicotti, per creare filati e strutture tessili su diverse scale, al fine di esplorare la materia minerale attraverso la sperimentazione tattile.
Anne-Kathrin Kühner è una designer tessile Tedesca, che lavora nel campo della ricerca sui tessuti e sui materiali, con un interesse per la sperimentazione pratica, i materiali specifici del luogo e le tradizioni artigianali. Collabora con diverse università e fa parte del collettivo AC+.
Mae Lubetkin
USA / France
Flusso Foliato: Sensing Tectonic Folds and Alpine Forms
Flusso Foliato imagines minerals as sensing and remembering bodies. Metamorphic foliation, the layered alignment of minerals, is approached as a record of movement and geological structure beneath Val Taleggio. Stones and landscape fragments will be suspended within a kinetic mobile sculpture, animated by field recordings and accompanied by a geo-poetic text.
Mae Lubetkin is a transmedia artist, writer, and ocean scientist based in Paris and at sea. Their practice-led research attunes to bodies of water and tectonic folds through queer, anti-extractivist, and decolonial frameworks.
USA / France
Flusso Foliato: Sensing Tectonic Folds and Alpine Forms
Flusso Foliato imagines minerals as sensing and remembering bodies. Metamorphic foliation, the layered alignment of minerals, is approached as a record of movement and geological structure beneath Val Taleggio. Stones and landscape fragments will be suspended within a kinetic mobile sculpture, animated by field recordings and accompanied by a geo-poetic text.
Mae Lubetkin is a transmedia artist, writer, and ocean scientist based in Paris and at sea. Their practice-led research attunes to bodies of water and tectonic folds through queer, anti-extractivist, and decolonial frameworks.
Flusso Foliato: Percepire le Pieghe Tettoniche e le Forme Alpine
Flusso Foliato immagina i minerali come corpi sensibili e dotati di memoria. La foliazione metamorfica, ovvero l'allineamento stratificato dei minerali, viene interpretata come una registrazione dei movimenti e della struttura geologica sotto la Val Taleggio. Pietre e frammenti di paesaggio saranno sospesi all'interno di una scultura mobile cinetica, animata da registrazioni sul campo e accompagnata da un testo geo-poetico.
Mae Lubetkin è un artistə transmediale, scrittorə e oceanografə oceanica che vive a Parigi e in mare. La sua ricerca pratica si concentra sui corpi idrici e sulle pieghe tettoniche attraverso un approccio queer, anti-estrattivista e decoloniale.
Sophia Riordan
USA / Portugal
Mineral Maps
Mineral Maps is a site-specific installation and durational performance. The project traces the movement of minerals across land, architecture, bodies, and cultural practices, exploring how life can be understood as a series of non-linear maps shaped by ecological and socio-cultural relationships.
Sophia Riordan works across sculpture, installation, and performance. Using materials like wood, string, and found natural objects, her work explores the connections between human and non-human life.
USA / Portugal
Mineral Maps
Mineral Maps is a site-specific installation and durational performance. The project traces the movement of minerals across land, architecture, bodies, and cultural practices, exploring how life can be understood as a series of non-linear maps shaped by ecological and socio-cultural relationships.
Sophia Riordan works across sculpture, installation, and performance. Using materials like wood, string, and found natural objects, her work explores the connections between human and non-human life.
Mappe Minerali
Mappe minerali è un'installazione site-specific e una performance di lunga durata. Il progetto traccia il movimento dei minerali attraverso la terra, l'architettura, i corpi e le pratiche culturali, esplorando come la vita possa essere intesa come una serie di mappe non lineari plasmate dalle relazioni ecologiche e socio-culturali.
Sophia Riordan lavora con la scultura, l'installazione e la performance. Utilizzando materiali come legno, spago e oggetti naturali trovati, il suo lavoro esplora le connessioni tra la vita umana e quella non umana.
Erin Single
Virginia, USA
Calcite as Codec: Mineral Listening and Worlding in Val Taleggio
The central question driving the project is: How can we collaborate with minerals in artistic processes with digital media to tell stories that generate empathy for the landscape? Erin will develop a multimedia performance that explores the tension of geologic time in the age of digital acceleration.
Erin Single is a media artist who creates installations, short films, live performances, and interactive art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia.
Virginia, USA
Calcite as Codec: Mineral Listening and Worlding in Val Taleggio
The central question driving the project is: How can we collaborate with minerals in artistic processes with digital media to tell stories that generate empathy for the landscape? Erin will develop a multimedia performance that explores the tension of geologic time in the age of digital acceleration.
Erin Single is a media artist who creates installations, short films, live performances, and interactive art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia.
La Calcite come Codec: Ascolto Minerale e Worlding nella Val Taleggio
La domanda centrale che guida il progetto è: come possiamo collaborare con i minerali nei processi artistici usando media digitali per raccontare storie che generano empatia per il paesaggio? Erin svilupperà una performance multimediale che esplora la tensione del tempo geologico nell'era dell'accelerazione digitale.
Erin Single è un'artista multimediale che crea installazioni, cortometraggi, performance dal vivo e arte interattiva. Attualmente è professore associato di arte digitale alla Middle Georgia State University di Macon, in Georgia.
2026 Alt Residents
2026 Visitors
Dani Blanco Albert, Trumpet Musician of Eco Theatre 2026, UK/SpainTiziana Scaciga, Pietre Trovanti / Crodo, Italy
Gloria Ramello, Naturalist / Bergamo, Italy
NAH_Conference June
Fabrizio Berra, Geologist, Universita’ Statale di Milano / Milano, Italy
Umberto Locati, Geologist / Bergamo, Italy
Elena Eustacchio, Naturalist / Bergamo, Italy
Venanzio Asperti, Artisan / Bergamo, Italy
Juan Carlos Usellini, Artisan / Bergamo, Italy
Enoch Ma
NAHR California Spring
Long Beach, California
Corporal Rite
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Enoch Ma is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and builder whose experiential installations study overlooked ways of being across natural systems.
Long Beach, California
Corporal Rite
This project explores ....
Enoch Ma is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and builder whose experiential installations study overlooked ways of being across natural systems.
Sonja
Schenk
NAHR California Fall
Light for the Sun: Likeness, Dummy, Dupe
I plan to collect information on the mineral formations of the Santa Ynez valley and create facsimiles out of paper in the studio. The result will be a series of faux rocks, each with a twin that remains undisturbed in nature.
Sonja Schenk is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles who explores the intersection of humankind and the natural world through transformative processes.
Light for the Sun: Likeness, Dummy, Dupe
I plan to collect information on the mineral formations of the Santa Ynez valley and create facsimiles out of paper in the studio. The result will be a series of faux rocks, each with a twin that remains undisturbed in nature.
Sonja Schenk is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles who explores the intersection of humankind and the natural world through transformative processes.