Fellows /
Residenti

2019

Katie De Bari
USA

A Welcome Invasion, A Prototype for Listening
How can we recalibrate our systems towards the health and prosperity of all involved? I believe looking to the nonhuman, not to what is indigenous but to what is harmonious, is essential to this line of inquiry. Let’s engage with the nonhuman directly through creative deep listening: physical embodiment and sketching. As we stage a welcome invasion of ontologies among the cheese production, we illuminate the plurality of cultures and histories in this given area, with particular mind to those of the nonhuman. Through sketching, both 2D (painting strokes) and 3D (painting with the body), we can capture the essential evasive quality of the nonhuman, rather than try to define it. Through this outward expression of our human limitation to understand that which is always moving, we leave behind an artifact, both material (canvas and paint) and ephemeral (the ghosts of choreography), of our attempt to listen.

Katie De Bari is a performance artist, writer, and eco-critical researcher. Katie uses theatrical and visual arts practices to grapple with issues of social and ecological disharmony, wondering, “how can we shift our perceptive tools in order to rehabilitate our environments and build healthy, inclusive systems in this Age of the Anthropocene?” By investigating new prototypes for listening, Katie strives to define new ways of making space for feeling the presence of the nonhuman. Katie’s recent performance work, as part of various collectives based in New York City, has been shown at Frederick Loewe Theater, Downtown Playwrights, and Hudson Guild Theater. She received her BFA in Drama (Experimental Theater) from New York University.

David Chan
Los Angeles, USA

Ground Truth: Grasses and Pastures of Val Taleggio
In this project, artificial intelligence and nature combine as an interactive design fiction chatbot. Informed by engagement with the built and natural environment, along with local populations, the chatbot explores impacts of humans on natural lifecycles, thus providing a voice to the grasses and pastures of the Val Taleggio region.

David Chan is a creative technologist combining interests in systems thinking, digital identities, and design fiction. David is an MFA candidate in Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of Design.

Anais Hazo
Berlin, Germany

Always, the world.
This research is about meaning and materiality altogether. It is based on a reflexion upon the concepts of interconnectedness and infusion. I will play with and combine milk and grasses, ferment them, distillate them, combine them, and create fresh milk creations as little artifacts to be eaten and digested again. During a final performance-like communal dinner, the audience will be invited to taste, perform and reflect on what their land has to offer. The project will also result in an open archive, shared with the population of Val Taleggio.

Anais Hazo is a French interdisciplinary artist and researcher, based in Berlin. She works with life, food, taste, images, design, nature, anthropology, language and philosophy.

Ming Lin & Heidi Maribut

PDO/PGI
This research extends an inquiry into circular economy in order to encompass a wider exploration of community economies that look to non-capitalist forms of value and labor that have been historical overlooked or undervalued. By engaging and challenging legal designations of food product origin—set-up to mediate the tension between the local production and global demands—PDO looks to contribute to a conversation surrounding the myth of authenticity and its intrinsic embeddedness in the privatization of land in Europe.

Ming Lin & Heidi Maribut
For this edition of NAHR, Ming Lin, a writer-researcher interested in global production chains, and Heidi Maribut, a visual artist looking at identity within globalization, are collaborating for the first time.

Sarah Kantrowitz
USA

Software Cheese
This project aims to build a small but functional prototype of a processing facility for modern regenerative cheesemaking. Areas of exploration include using distributed sensors for automated food safety monitoring to adapt an old stone casello, a traditional Alpine cheesemaking facility that sits floorless and
chilly astride a stream. This prototype will attempt to hybridize the best of modern and traditional production modalities, to accept the limitations of both with grace, and to cultivate wholly new, powerfully nourishing relational logics.

Sarah Kantrowitz is a designer working at the intersection of food justice and the built environment, primarily through the design of infrastructure for stronger regional food systems. Her current work is focused on attuning food safety regulations to the dynamics of moisture migration and microbial growth in small-scale fermentation facilities. She holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from Reed College.

Rachael Mead
Austrialia

Songs of Chlorophyll and Casein
A long-form ecopoem series that creatively reimagines and weaves together the ecological and human history of the Taleggio valley, creating a poetic narrative of place.

And my anticipated engagements with other NAHR participants and local population can be described as follows...

Through immersion in the region and engagement with the locals, producers and other artists, I intend to weave together the ecological and human voices of the valley and create a poetic narrative of place. The long-form ecopoem series, which will be presented at the conclusion of the residency, will illustrate the inherent interdependence of the ecology and human elements such as grassland, pasture and bovine ecology, milk and cheese production, climate, water, soil fertility, waste, carbon dioxide and methane production, human cultural production and anthropogenic environmental impacts such as biodiversity loss, climate change and the effect of introduced pest species.

Rachael Mead is a South Australian poet and writer. Her most recent poetry collection is The Flaw in the Pattern (UWAP 2018). You can find more of her work at http://rachaelmead.com/

Siobhan Rigg

Working Strains
The anticipated artifacts for this project include a series of prints utilizing pigments produced from elements driving energy through the chain of cheese production (chlorophyll and lactobacilli), photographs documenting the work and impact of the production chain, and a series of posters produced for distribution from the resulting imagery.

I anticipate interacting with fellows and people in the community in as many ways as I can, though language limitations may flavor what those interactions look like – including communicating through the work of making images, prints, food, etc. During a working residency, I am always interested in informal conversation along the way, and I am invested in sharing the outcome of the project at the end. The motivation for the production of prints at the end is to have a set of materials that can be shared locally, either directly through NAHR or another local site that is more public.

Siobhan Rigg is an artist whose creative and research interests center on the social and environmental histories of particular places and stories, linking experiential and information-based understandings as sites for action.

2018

Eunice Andrada
Sydney, Australia

To Speak Water
Part poetry and part lyric collection, To Speak Water explores the open wounds of water memory. Across languages and bodies of water in the Taleggio Valley to the Philippine islands, these poems speak to the personhood of water as witness, as deity, as sexual being and as a vessel for inherited traumas. Giving a voice to the violences that water endures, Andrada pays homage to Italian poetic forms and Hiligaynon beliefs in her series of communions with water. You can explore the poetic soundscapes that accompany each section of the collection here: https://soundcloud.com/eunice-andrada

Eunice Andrada is an award-winning Filipina poet, lyricist and teaching artist based in Sydney, Australia. Featured in The Guardian, CNN International, ABC News and other media, she has performed her poetry in diverse international stages, from the Sydney Opera House to the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris. Her work has been translated into Tagalog, Hiligaynon, French, Japanese, Czech and Italian. In 2018, the Amundsen-Scott Station in the South Pole of Antarctica will feature her poetry in a special exhibition on climate change. Flood Damages is her first book of poetry: https://goo.gl/prWTTf

Parlare acqua
Parte poesia, parte lirica, Parlare Acqua esplora le ferite aperte della memoria dell'acqua. Attraverso lingue e corpi d’acqua dalla Val Taleggio alle isole filippine, queste poesie parlano alla impersonificazione dell'acqua come testimone, come divinità, come essere sessuale e come recipiente per i traumi ereditati. Dando voce alle violenze che l'acqua sopporta, Andrada rende omaggio alle forme poetiche italiane e alle credenze di Hiligaynon nella sua serie di comunioni con l'acqua.

Eunice Andrada è una poetessa filippina pluripremiata, paroliere e insegnante. Vive a Sydney, in Australia. Pubblicata su The Guardian, CNN International, ABC News e altri media, ha recitato la sua poesia in diversi palcoscenici internazionali, dalla Sydney Opera House ai negoziati sul clima delle Nazioni Unite a Parigi. Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in Tagalog, Hiligaynon, francese, ceco, giapponese e italiano. Nel 2018, la stazione Amundsen-Scott nel Polo Sud dell'Antartide mostrerà la sua poesia in una mostra speciale sui cambiamenti climatici. Flood Damages è il suo primo libro di poesie.

Jill Anholt
Vancouver, BC Canada

Water:Life
Pure potable water, some of the best in the world, is diverted directly from mineral springs to flow continuously through thousands of public drinking fountains in Italy, delivering a message of water as an infinite, inexhaustible resource. In our current global context of a changing climate, water can no longer be taken for granted as ecosystems and environments that protect vital water resources are becoming more threatened. Drawing attention to the local natural and constructed systems that deliver and dispose of this valuable yet under-appreciated resource, my project provokes people, to notice water again and to remember how precious and important it is to life in all forms.

Jill Anholt is an artist living in Vancouver, Canada who holds both a Master’s degree in Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree in Science. Her art practice centers on the creation of context specific installations in public spaces. Jill has installed more than 30 permanent works ranging from smaller scale interactive sculptural elements to complex integrated civic projects for cities across North America. The works she creates reveal invisible processes and hidden narratives, exploring the complex relationship between nature and culture.

Acqua:Vita
In Italia, l’acqua potabile pura, tra le migliori al mondo, viene deviata direttamente dalle sorgenti minerali pre scorrere continuamente attraverso migliaia di fontanelle pubbliche, offrendo un messaggio che l’acqua sia una risorsa infinita ed inesauribile. Nel nostro attuale contesto globale di un clima che cambia, l'acqua non può più essere data per scontata in quanto gli ecosistemi e gli ambienti che proteggono le risorse idriche vitali sono sempre più minacciati. Attirando/Ponendo l'attenzione sui sistemi locali naturali e costruiti che forniscono e smaltiscono questa risorsa preziosa ma sottovalutata, il mio progetto stimola le persone a notare di nuovo l'acqua e a ricordare quanto sia preziosa e importante per la vita in tutte le sue forme.

Jill Anholt è un'artista che vive a Vancouver BC, con un Master in Architettura e una laurea in Scienze. La sua pratica artistica è incentrata sulla creazione di installazioni contestuali specifiche per spazi pubblici. Jill ha installato più di 30 opere permanenti che vanno dagli elementi scultorei interattivi su scala ridotta a complessi progetti civici integrati per le città del Nord America. Le opere che crea rivelano processi invisibili e narrazioni nascoste, esplorando la complessa relazione tra natura e cultura.

Tiffany Henschel
USA

Time is Water
This project is a multimedia exploration into water as an indication of time in the Taleggio Valley. It studies the effects of water as they relate to growth, decay, subjectivity, and personal bias through different visualizations and interfaces. Inspired by a plastic bag found during a hike that had essentially turned into the shape of a rock through years of impact with rushing water, these studies hope to enhance our understanding of water as a precious, powerful, yet finite resource rather than omnipresent and perpetual, even in a region where it is seemingly abundant.

Tiffany Henschel is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and data lover using new media and technology to uncover connections in hyperlocal spaces. She combines physical and digital worlds to reveal ephemeral aspects and methods of communication and interpersonal exchange. Intrigued with how people navigate through local spaces and spread ideas over time, she has a keen interest in wayfinding and maps, and prefers to“sweat the small stuff,” focusing on the liminal, the minutiae, to see how they affect the macro. Tiffany recently received her MFA (and NAHR Fellowship) in Media Design Practices from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Tempo e’ Acqua
Questo progetto è un'esplorazione multimediale che usa l'acqua come indicazione del tempo nella Val Taleggio. Studia gli effetti dell'acqua in relazione a crescita, decadimento, soggettività e pregiudizi personali attraverso diverse visualizzazioni e interfacce. Ispirata dal ritrovamento di una borsa di plastica appallottolata, trovata durante una passeggiata, che si è essenzialmente trasformata in una roccia in anni di impatto con l'acqua che scorre, questi studi sperano di migliorare la nostra comprensione dell'acqua come risorsa preziosa, potente, ma limitata piuttosto che onnipresente e perpetua, anche in una regione in cui è apparentemente abbondante.

Tiffany Henschel è una designer interdisciplinare, ricercatrice e amante dei dati che usa nuovi media e tecnologia per scoprire connessioni in spazi iperlocali. Combina mondi fisici e digitali per rivelare aspetti effimeri e metodi di comunicazione e scambio interpersonale. Incuriosita dal modo in cui le persone navigano attraverso gli spazi locali e nella diffusione delle idee nel tempo, ha un forte interesse per wayfinding e mappe, e preferisce concentrandosi sul liminale, le minuzie, i dettagli per capire come il micro influenza il macro. Tiffany ha recentemente ricevuto il suo MFA (e la Fellowship NAHR) in Media Design Practices presso l'Art Center College of Design di Pasadena.

Samuel Maddox
Boston, MA USA

Sip, Serve, Share: Symbiotic Pottery
Water is political, not partisan. It simultaneously inscribes lines between countries, peoples, races, and still flows defiantly past political boundaries. Water can be both a promising means of transport and yet menacingly scarce to the imperiled and disenfranchised who migrate toward the pull of prosperity; their paths across seas and deserts like the streams that wind down the mountainside, beckoned by gravity. Even the simple water fountain brings with it a multifarious and divisive past. Where mid-century drinking fountains were divided by race in the American south, Italian fountains have long stood as a physical manifestation of democracy. The Italian fontanelle acts as a node of sociality and a place where differences are cast aside as our universal need for water unites those of various classes, races, genders, nationalities, and even species. As our world becomes increasingly divided by toxic politics and advanced capitalism, the infrastructure of the fountain stands as a reminder of our shared dependence upon both water and one another. Sip, Serve, Share is a collection of clay vessels that each reactivate the environ of the public fountain as social node by necessitating communication and collaboration in order to achieve their individual functions.

Samuel Maddox is an architect and academic studying Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology at Havard’s GSD. His research is at the intersection of landscape and sociocultural practices with particular interest in economic flows and equitable disparities between urban and rural populations.

Sorseggia, Servi, Condividi: Ceramica simbiotica
L'acqua è politica, non partigiana. Imprime simultaneamente le linee tra paesi, popoli, razze, ma scorre in modo provocatorio oltre i confini politici. L'acqua può essere sia un mezzo di trasporto promettente, ma minacciosamente minaccioso per gli inermi e i diseredati che migrano verso l'attrazione della prosperità; i loro sentieri attraverso mari e deserti come i torrenti che si snodano lungo la montagna, attirati dalla gravità. Anche la semplice fontana d'acqua porta con sé un passato multiforme e divisivo. Laddove le fontane sono state divisione etnica nel sud americano, le fontane italiane sono state a lungo una manifestazione fisica della democrazia. La fontana italiana agisce come un nodo di socialità e un luogo in cui le differenze sono messe da parte, poiché il nostro bisogno universale di acqua unisce quelli di varie classi, razze, generi, nazionalità e persino specie. Mentre il nostro mondo diventa sempre più diviso dalla politica tossica e dal capitalismo avanzato, l'infrastruttura della fontana si pone come promemoria della nostra dipendenza condivisa sia dall'acqua che l’un l’altro. Sip, Serve, Share è una collezione di vasi di argilla che riattivano ciascuno l'ambiente della fontana pubblica come nodo sociale, rendendo necessaria la comunicazione e la collaborazione per raggiungere le funzioni individuali.

Samuel Maddox è un architetto degli Stati Uniti rurali che studia Urbanismo, Paesaggio ed Ecologia al GSD di Harvard. La sua ricerca esiste alla confluenza del paesaggio, dell'ecologia politica urbana e della pratica socioculturale con particolare interesse per le disparità economiche e di potere tra le popolazioni urbane e rurali.

Giulia Mattera
London, UK

Sensory Map
How does the body react to water? How does your body eliminate water and how do these processes affect the environment? What is the effect of cold water on the body? The final result of this research is a site-specific work consisting of a multi-sensorial map/guide that will lead each audience in an individual journey of self-discovery and reconnection. Via it the audience member will be able to directly engage and experience the effects of water through his/her emotional, sensorial and physical body.

Giulia Mattera is a performance artist whose work questions gender, everyday life and socially structured ritualized behaviors. Her research based practice explores natural elements via the body, through which she sets herself tasks that deal with failure and challenge the preconceptions of bodymind limitations.

Mappa Sensoriale
Come reagisce il corpo a contatto con l’acqua? In quali modi il corpo elimina l’acqua e qual è l’effetto di questi processi sull’ambiente circostante? Qual è l’effetto dell’acqua fredda sul corpo? Il risultato finale di questa ricerca è un lavoro site-specific che consiste in una mappa / guida multisensoriale che condurrà ciascun pubblico in un percorso individuale di scoperta di sé e riconnessione. In questo modo, il membro del pubblico sarà in grado di coinvolgere direttamente e sperimentare gli effetti dell'acqua attraverso il suo corpo emotivo, sensoriale e fisico.

Giulia Mattera è una performance artist il cui lavoro mette in discussione il genere, la vita di tutti i giorni e comportamenti ritualizzati strutturati socialmente. La sua pratica basata sulla ricerca esplora gli elementi naturali attraverso il corpo, attraverso i quali si pone dei compiti che affrontano il problema e sfidano i preconcetti delle limitazioni della mente e del corpo.

Skye Moret
USA

Cues for Immersion
I explored the nuanced, indexical thresholds within the Taleggio landscape and aquatic ecosystems and paired these experiments with an investigation of investigation itself. What makes a place truly unique? What objective and subjective cues allow us to understand our environment and how can we reflexively explore these cues? By highlighting thresholds visually, I created prompt cards that allow both residents and visitors to explore and discuss the valley’s environment at multiple spatial scales. Through curious engagement and transdisciplinary perspective, participants contextualize their natural surroundings in a rich and pragmatic way, adding to the collective dialogue of the valley.

Skye Moret is a data-driven designer. Her diverse background in marine science—having sailed 80,000+ miles around the globe—fuels her belief in the power of art and design in communicating nature and science. Her work investigates the complex relationship between nature and technology-mediated human expectations, experiences, and engagement.

Indizi per l’immersione
Ho indicizzato le soglie del paesaggio e dei sistemi acquatici della Val Taleggio esplorandone le sfumature. Accopiando questi esperimenti con un'indagine sull'indagine stessa. Cosa rende un luogo davvero unico? Quali indizi oggettivi e soggettivi ci consentono di comprendere il nostro ambiente e come possiamo esplorare riflessivamente questi segnali? Evidenziando visivamente le soglie, ho creato delle schede che consentono a residenti e visitatori di esplorare e discutere l'ambiente della valle a più dimensioni. Puntando sulla curiosita’ e il coinvolgimento, attraverso una prospettiva transdisciplinare, i partecipanti potranno contestualizzare il loro ambiente naturale in modo ricco e pragmatico, arricchendo nella Valle il dialogo collettivo.

Skye Moret è una information designer. Il suo background in scienze marine - ha navigato oltre 80.000 miglia in tutto il mondo - alimenta la sua convinzione nel potere dell'arte e del design nel comunicare natura e scienza. Il suo lavoro indaga la complessa relazione tra la natura e le aspettative, le esperienze e l'impegno umani mediati dalla tecnologia.

Matthew G. Wong
Boston, MA USA

Hidden Waters: Hybrid Representations of Val Taleggio
Hidden Waters is a portrait of Val Taleggio’s watershed, drawn with the intention of expanding the spatial understanding of the valley’s hydrologic network. By employing the use of drone technology, field notes, and analog forms of documentation, the investigation aims to develop a telescopic view of the valley’s hydroelectric infrastructural network along the Enna River in the Orridi. The drawing focuses on illustrating the relationship between infrastructure, topography and water as actors underlying Val Taleggio’s ecology.

Matthew G. Wong is a landscape designer exploring the interface between artificial and natural systems through various modes of representation. His current work concerns large scale landscapes of production involving agricultural arrangements and hydrologic systems of the southwest United States. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of California, Davis and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Norman T. Newton Prize.

Acque Nascoste: Rappresentazioni ibride della Val Taleggio
Hidden Waters è un ritratto dello spartiacque della Val Taleggio, disegnato con l'intenzione di espandere la comprensione spaziale della rete idrologica della valle. Utilizzando la tecnologia del drone, appunti di campo e forme analogiche di documentazione, l'indagine mira a sviluppare una vista telescopica della rete idroelettrica della valle lungo il fiume Enna negli Orridi. Il disegno si concentra sull'illustrazione del rapporto tra infrastruttura, topografia e acqua come attori chiave dell'ecologia della Val Taleggio.

Matthew G. Wong è un paesaggista che esplora l'interfaccia tra sistemi artificiali e naturali attraverso varie modalità di rappresentazione. Il suo lavoro riguarda paesaggi di produzione su larga scala che coinvolgono sistemi agricoli e sistemi idrologici del sud-ovest degli Stati Uniti. Ha conseguito una laurea in scienze presso l'Università della California, Davis e un master in architettura del paesaggio presso la Harvard Graduate School of Design, dove ha ricevuto il premio Norman T. Newton.

2018 Alt. Residents

Stacy Passmore, Landscape Architect / USA
Emma Strebel, Artist / USA
Paul Mosig & Rachel Peachey, Artists / Melbourne, Australia
Ashe Gutierez & Carley Culmo, Performing Artists / Florida, USA
Remnant Dance: Lucinda Coleman, Ellen Avery, Katie Chown, Performing Artists / Australia - PROJECT CULACCINI
Luisa Brando, Architect / Colombia
Cassandra Celestin, Artist / Athens, Greece
Brian Ng, Animator and Cook / California, USA

2018 Visitors

Paolo Belloni, Architect / Bergamo, Italy
Gloria Cornolti, Prov. Bg / Bergamo, Italy
Pietro Invernizzi, Scalpellino / Val Imagna, Italy
Maurizio Ori, Landscape Architect / Cremona, CR, Italy

2017

Juan Barte
Madrid, Spain

The Land is Good. Bio-Inspired Photography in the Taleggio Valley
This work explores the gap between images and objects, bridging this gap through a bio-inspired process that results in a perfect symbiosis between the natural constituents of the photography subjects and the actual photographs. The resulting photographs go beyond representation and metaphor merging culture and nature. To this end the darkroom process is polluted with the very essences of the Taleggio Valley: its water, soil, stones, bacteria... In this process the images are revealed through chance, noise and non-programed events. The result are photographs not consciously expected. They are at once serial and singular, have a mechanic look, but are done manually, each of them unique and unrepeatable.

Juan Barte born and raised in Spain had a diverse career that led him to live in places like Los Angeles, Tokyo, Laos, or Madrid. He worked as graphic designer for companies such as The Walt Disney Company. However, photography was always been one of his main fields of interest, so in 2012 he decided to devote himself fully to this “obsession.” Barte’s work has been widely published in specialized media and exhibited in both galleries and public institutions. He is also coordinator of Photobook Club Madrid, actively promoting photography culture through different events.

Il terreno e’ buono. Fotografia Bio-Ispirata in Val Taleggio Il lavoro esplora il divario tra immagini e oggetti, colmando questa lacuna attraverso un processo bio-ispirato che si traduce in una perfetta simbiosi tra le componenti naturali dei soggetti della fotografia e le fotografie reali. Le fotografie che ne derivano vanno oltre la rappresentazione e la metafora fondendo cultura e natura.
Con quest’obiettivo il processo della camera oscura è contaminato con l'essenza stessa della Val Taleggio: l'acqua, il suolo, le pietre, i batteri... In questo processo le immagini vengono rivelate attraverso eventi, rumori e eventi non programmati. Il risultato è dato da fotografie “non-consapevoli”, seriali e singolari al contempo: esse hanno un aspetto meccanico, ma sono sviluppate manualmente, ognuna di esse unica e irripetibile.

Juan Barte nato e cresciuto in Spagna ha avuto una carriera variegata che lo ha portato a vivere in luoghi come Los Angeles, Tokyo, Laos o Madrid. Ha lavorato come grafico per aziende come The Walt Disney Company. Tuttavia, la fotografia è sempre stata uno dei suoi principali campi di interesse, per cui nel 2012 ha deciso di dedicarsi pienamente a questa "ossessione." Il suo lavoro è stato ampiamente pubblicato in riviste di settore ed esposte in gallerie private e pubbliche. È anche coordinatore di Photobook Club Madrid, che promuove attivamente la cultura della fotografia attraverso diversi eventi.

Ana Catalina Gubandru
Bucharest, Romania

Mysterious object, on hard
She will research the presence of the body within the rock and stone environment, the magical potential of the rocks and stones and its correspondence within humans and the human body. She will make performative interventions in the nature using body, rock and stone. The outcome will be the performance and the photo-video documentation of the process.

Ana Catalina Gubandru is an independent choreographer and performer, born and based in Bucharest, Romania.
She works with various concepts and media, performance, performing and body expressivity and
endeavors, written and improvised text, sound, interviews, photography, film, participatory art, reused handmade objects, making special, drawings, installations.

Oggetto misterioso, duro
Il progetto esamina la presenza del corpo nell'ambiente roccioso e nella pietra, rivelando il potenziale magico delle rocce e delle pietre e la sua corrispondenza nell'uomo e, più in particolare, nel corpo umano attraverso una performance del corpo in natura, tra roccie e pietre. la restituzione del progetto è data dalla performance stessa con la documentazione fotografica e videografica del processo in corso.

Ana Catalina Gubandru è coreografa e performer indipendente, nata a Bucarest, in Romania, dove vive. Lavora con diversi concetti e strumenti, performance e espressività del corpo, testi scritti e improvvisati, suoni, interviste, fotografie, film, happening d’arte partecipativa, oggetti riutilizzati, processi speciali, disegni, installazioni.

Joshua G. Stein
Los Angeles, CA USA

Stone Scan Specimens: A Hybrid Language of Extraction and Assembly
Stone Scan Specimens is a taxonomy of the stone patterns generated by the various strategies of extraction and construction in the Val Brembana region. These 3D digital scans (created through photogrammetry technology) document a long history of human interface with the natural and geological surroundings. Although vernacular assemblies (baite huts, masonry walls of the mulattiere, piöde roofs, and stone churches) are an important part of the area’s cultural and physical patrimony, the sites of extraction that provided their materials are equally a part of the legacy of human invention and impact.

Joshua G. Stein is the founder Radical Craft, a Los Angeles-based studio that advances design saturated in history (from archaeology to craft) that inflects the production of contemporary urban spaces and artifacts. He is the co-director of the Data Clay Network, Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University, and was a 2010-11 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture.

Stone Scan Specimens: Un Linguaggio Ibrido tra Estrazione e Assemblaggio
Stone Scan Specimens è una tassonomia dei modelli di pietra generati dalle varie strategie di estrazione e costruzione nella regione di Val Brembana. Queste scansioni digitali 3D (creati attraverso la tecnologia di fotogrammetria) documentano una lunga storia di interfaccia umana con l'ambiente naturale e geologico. Sebbene gli assetti vernacolari (baite, pareti in muratura dei mulattieri, tetti di piöde e pietrisco) rappresentino una parte importante del patrimonio culturale e fisico della zona, i siti di estrazione che forniscono i loro materiali sono altrettanto rappresentativi dell'impatto, eredità e invenzione umana.

Joshua G. Stein è il fondatore Radical Craft, uno studio di Los Angeles che fonda la propria progettazione nella storia densa, intensa, satura di elementi informativi - dall'archeologia all'arte) per la produzione di oggetti e spazi urbani contemporanei. E' co-direttore della Data Clay Network, nonché professore nella facoltà di Architettura all'Università di Woodbury in California.Ha vinto il Rome Prize di 2010-11 in Architettura.

April Greiman
Los Angeles, CA USA

Seeing is a Way of Thinking, Thinking a Way of Seeing This photography project explores the relationship of nature as recorded, analyzed and enhanced through digital technology, and probes more deeply through scale change. Of particular interest is the discovery and capture of 'hidden' information- for example, subtle color palettes, not easily seen with the naked eye, at actual scale or in the natural light condition.The reduced size of the natural material allows for a compressed visual product of color palette, both real, and in combination with the texture of technology.

April Greiman is a thinker and artist, whose works include various trans-media projects, innovative technology combined with an exploratory hybrid-based approach. Explorations of image, word and color as objects in time and space are grounded in a singular fusion of art and technology. Her body of work is varied in media, scale and application with a common purpose to augment the imagination and amplify the core values expressing one's perceptions before nature.

Vedere è un modo di pensare, pensare è un modo di vedere Il progetto fotografico esplora la relazione con la natura registrata, analizzata e potenziata attraverso lo strumento digitale che grazie al cambiamento di scala permette di sondare/scavare maggiormente in profondità. Di particolare interesse è la scoperta e la rivelazione di informazioni "nascoste," come ad esempio, la sottile palette di colori, poco visibili a occhio nudo, a scala reale o in condizioni di luce naturale.
La dimensione ingrandita del materiale naturale consente un effetto visivo della tavolozza dei colori in forma compressa, sia esso reale che combinato con la texture/griglia/trama digitale/della tecnologia.

April Greiman è artista, le cui opere comprendono vari progetti trans-media, che combinano tecnologie innovative con un approccio ibrido esplorativo. Esplorazioni trasversali di immagini, parole e colori come oggetti nel tempo e nello spaziotrovano fondate nella singolare fusione di arte e tecnologia. Il suo lavoro è variato nei mezzi, nella scala e nell'applicazione, con lo scopo di aumentare l’ immaginazione e ampliare lo spettro delle nostre percezioni in nautra.

Giulia Pellegrini
Milan, Italy

The Stone Alive
Stone becomes the subject of a series of actions that open up a reflection not only on rural culture that for a long time has characterized the territory and human settlements of Val Taleggio but also its physical and geological characteristics, Focusing attention on his "word", his "skin", and his "memory". A story, told through different steps, that brings the spectator to think of this material as a living, dynamic, inert, and immobile. The project looks at rock as a vital element that interacts with human culture in craftsmanship.

Giulia Pellegrini (1990). After two years of Pharmacy at the University of Pavia, she graduated (with honour) in Painting, Visual Arts, and Curatorial Studies at Naba, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. Giulia is attracted to the chromatic, dimensional, organic aspect of the individual elements which characterize the environment around her. She classifies, selects, studies each element to focus her attention on the transformation which happens in each environment, system, body and energy within matter. Transformation and energy, along with the idea of time which is identified in her works with the concept of duration, are the subjects of her works.

La Pietra Viva
La pietra è il soggetto di una serie di “azioni” che aprono una riflessione non solo sulla cultura rurale caratterizzante il territorio e gli insediamenti umani della Val Taleggio, ma anche sulla sua cultura materiale, fisica e geologica, focalizzando l’attenzione sulla sua “parola,” sulla sua “pelle” e sulla sua “memoria”. Una storia, raccontata attraverso differenti step, in grado di portare lo spettatore a pensare a questo materiale come a un qualcosa di vivo e dinamico, e non inerte ed immobile! Il progetto guarda alla roccia come ad un elemento dotato di vitalità che interagisce con la cultura delle pratiche artigianali.

Giulia Pellegrini (1990). Dopo due anni di Farmacia presso l'Università di Pavia, si è laureata in Pittura, Arti visive e Studi Curatoriali presso Naba, la Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano,lavora sull’ aspetto cromatico, dimensionale e organico dei singoli elementi che caratterizzano l'ambiente. Il suo progetto classifica, seleziona, studia ogni elemento per concentrare l’attenzione sul processo di trasformazione che avviene in ogni ambiente, sistema, corpo. La trasformazione e l'energia all'interno della materia, insieme all'idea del tempo che si identifica nel concetto di durata, sono i soggetti delle sue opere.

Greta Ruedisueli
Boston, MA USA

Stone in the Landscape: Cycles of Materiality
The form and composition of stone evolve as the material undergoes processes of extraction, implementation, and degradation by exposure to natural and human forces. The intentional and accidental placement of rock and stone creates a framework for the movement of plants. From the moss-covered boulder to the agricultural drywall, human experience in the landscape shifts with the presence of erosion and vegetation. By analyzing the dynamic behaviors of vegetation across rock, living systems serve not only as an aesthetic and experiential design tool, but also as a structural element to help sustain architectural and landscape design.

Greta Ruedisueli explores the way people experience space and perceive environments through the hand and the eye. Fascinated by all scales of design, she considers buildings, infrastructure, landscapes, and human interactions as one continuous fabric. With a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture, Greta is currently pursuing a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Pietra nel Paesaggio: Cicli di Materialità La forma e la composizione della pietra evolvono in quanto il materiale subisce nel tempo processi di estrazione, utilizzo e degradazione per diretta esposizione alle forze naturali e umane. Il posizionamento intenzionale e accidentale di roccia e pietra crea il supporto per la crescita della vegetazione. Dal masso coperto di muschio al muro a secco di sostegno, l'esperienza umana nel paesaggio cambia con la presenza di erosione e vegetazione. Lo studio e la ricerca dei comportamenti dinamici della vegetazione sulla roccia, permettono di evidenziare come i sistemi viventi appaiono non solo come elemento strutturale ma anche come sperimentale/esperienziale strumento di progettazione estetica, operazione che aiuta a sviluppare il progetto architettonico e paesaggistico.

Greta Ruedisueli esplora il modo in cui le persone sperimentano lo spazio e percepiscono gli ambienti attraverso la mano e gli occhi. Affascinata da tutte le scale di progettazione, considera i paesaggi, le infrastrutture, gli edifici, e infine le interazioni umane come un tessuto continuo. Laureata in Architettura, sta svolgendo un Master in Architettura del Paesaggio presso la Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Ho Ting Wei
Taipei, Taiwan

Who's-Tone
“Who’s-Tone” is a short animation. The story is about an unusual conversation between the character and different rocks. The character believes stones are empathetic and can feel and heal her. This project aims to explore the spiritual relationship between stone and human, and from which the artist's wounded heart is healed through the experience. The work hopes to present the power of healing of Mother Nature.

Ho-Ting Wei is an animation filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Taiwan. Her work attempts to attract people to embrace tough environmental or social issues by using interesting artistic ways. She holds a MFA in Animation and Film Art from Tainan National University of the Arts.

Chi e’ Pie(t)ra Chi è Pie(t)ra è un cortometraggio animato. È la storia di una conversazione insolita tra un personaggio femminile e diverse pietre. Il personaggio crede che le pietre siano empatiche e possano sentirla e guarirla. Questo progetto mira ad esplorare il rapporto spirituale tra l’elemento pietra e l’umano, dove il cuore ferito dell'artista guarisce attraverso l'esperienza. Il lavoro mira a presentare la potenza guaritrice di Madre Natura.

Ho-Ting Wei è filmmaker d’animazione e artista multidisciplinare; vive a Taiwan. Il suo approccio minuto con espedienti artisitici particolari intende coinvolgere le persone ad abbracciare temi ambientali o sociali. Ha ottenuto un Master of Fine Arts in Animazione e Film Art all'Università Nazionale delle Arti di Tainan.

2017 Alt. Residents

Katy Bradford / USA
Simon Eales, Eco-Poet & Researcher / Melbourne, Australia & Buffalo, NY, USA
Anne Elvey, Eco-Poet, Melbourne, Australia
Jennifer Jenkins, Sculptor / Hamburg, Germany
Sofia Malone, Painter / Stockholm, Sweden
Kwangwoo Kim, Installation & Performing Artist / Gyeonggi do, South Korea
Helena Wadsley, Artist / Vancouver, Canada
Sara Palmieri, Photographer / Roma, Italy

2017 Visitors

Paolo Belloni, Architect / Bergamo, Italy
Enrico Borghi, Politician, UNCEM / Vogogna, Italy
Mauro Bugada, Architect / Sant’Omobono Terme, Bg, Italy
Stefania Cabassi, Geologist / Piazza Brembana, Bg, Italy
Antonio Carminati, Centro Studi Val Imagna / Val Imagna Italy
Gloria Cornolti, Prov. Bg / Bergamo, Italy
Davide Crippa, Architect / Milano, Italy
Gianmarco Orlandi, Geologist / Ranica, Bg, Italy
Francesco Garofalo, Landscape Architect / Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jacopo Gennari Feslikenian, Photographer / Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Anna Giorgi, Botanist, UNIMONT / Milano, Italy
Alice Guarisco, Architect / Brescia, Italy
Pietro Invernizzi, Scalpellino / Val Imagna, Italy
Maurizio Ori, Landscape Architect / Cremona, CR, Italy
Luigino Pirola, Landscape Architect / Bonate Sopra, BG, Italy
Tiziana Scaciga, Recycled Stones / Domodossola, Italy
Enrico Scaramellini, Architect / Madesimo, SO, Italy
Jennifer Scappettone, Eco-Poet / Chicago, IL, USA
Asli Suner, Architect / Istanbul, Turkey
Paolo Valoti CAI / Grassobbio, BG, Italy
Matteo Zanga, Photographer / Val Seriana, Bg, Italy

2016

Mauriah Kraker
Milwaukee, WI USA

Track / Shul
Building movement sequences in both rural and urban environments of the Taleggio Valley, Kraker's solo work focused on imprinting the land with her presence and absence.

Mariah Kraker created projects on printing presses in Germany in rivers of the Midwest, under bridges in Taiwan and in Bangkok's zombie buildings. Currently, she is an MFA Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Elena Brebenel
Ploiesti, Romania

Whispers of the Forest
Whispers of the Forest, draws inspiration from the symbiotic relationships existent in the woods of Val Taleggio. The focus is on mutually beneficial relationships that lay at the core of the food functioning of the Woods, making it an example of a healthy habitat. In addition, the project also builds using the beneficial properties of local plants.

Elena Brebenel is a textile designer and researcher currently undertaking a PhD at Central Saint Martins in London. Currently, she is investigating how biomimicry can help us develop artifacts for the domestic environment that addresses indoor air pollution.

Elke Eichmann
Zürich, Switzerland

Beauty in Imperfection
Spending time in nature opens our eyes to the profound beauty of imperfection. The natural cycle of growth, decay and death shows the simple, slow and uncluttered essence of life. It is like in the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi where simplicity, asymmetry or irregularity lead to a meditation of impermanence and transience of things.

This project is a concentrated visual research on the woods in the Val Taleggio. These trees lead a difficult existence and fight against the topography, water, erosions and weather. Through this project, Elke combined the view of the photographer and the architect in nature, while catching the specific significance of the Taleggio Valley.

Elke Eichmann is an architect and photographer, she lives and works in Zurich.

Isabelle Duvivier
Venice, CA USA

The Woods at Home from Biophobia to Biofilia
Inspired by the butterfly's relationship to nature, and by human-managed forests, the project is exploring ways of stirring humans away from Biosphobia, - fear of the outdoors particularly of spiders and snakes - towards Biofilia - attractions and connection to nature. By creating a butterfly-human friendly architecture, we will expand the woods/meadows into the cities, increase bio-diversity within and outside the city and create a well-needed appreciation of our natural resources.

Isabelle Duvivier is an American-Belgian architect, Principal of Duvivier Architects, located in Venice Beach, California. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She received her Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she also studied math and welding. She is interested in the integration of nature in the built environment.

Jay Yowell
Edmond, OK USA

Tree Bark as Model for Architecture
Tree bark as Model explores how the trees, specifically their bark, found in the woods of the Taleggio Valleyt can serve as inspiration from improving architectural building envelopes. Outcomes are a series of analytical drawings on the research of tree bark as well as regional architecture of the Taleggio Valley and also proposing concepts for new building envelopes. Additionally, local bark form the region will be collected and displayed.

Jay Yowell is an architect in Edmond, Oklahoma and a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He enjoys outdoor activities and this connection to nature has lead to a passion for bio-inspired design. Recent research has been on applying bio-inspiration to building skins.

Jenny Rodenhouse
Los Angeles, CA USA

The Enchanted Forests: Satellite Canopies and Digital Understories
By 2019, remote laser scanning technology (LiDAR) will be installed on the International Space Station. As it orbits the earth, it will collect forest carbon data for each site it passes. Using woodlands located in Sottochiesa Italy, LiDAR mapping, and iPhone ISS locator applications, the project simulates a digital forest that appears and disappears with the passing of the International Space Station.

With each fly over, the forest becomes a more and more dense collection of past, current, and future trees. Evolving into a digital data bank, the video imagines the forest as an interface for international climate policies and carbon trading economies. The project investigates how our natural landscapes, seasons, and rituals may be transformed by new observational technologies and artificial celestial forces.

Jenny Rodenhouse is a multimedia designer and artist, whose work examines the merging of the interfaces and the landscape. Appropriating the test site, places of experimentation, she explores the implications of emerging technology, creating hybrid virtual/physical, artificial/natural, local/global environments.

Sabina Magliocco
Northridge, CA USA

Nature and the Spiritual Imagination: The woods in the culture of Val Taleggio
The project examines the relationship between spiritual and ontological concepts of nature and sustainable practices by comparing traditional ways of relating to the woods of the Val Taleggio to the "new animism", a form of environmentalism that uses imaginative praxes to create relationships with nature.

Sabina Magliolo is a Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge. She has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and the United States, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement. He current research is on nature and spiritual imagination.

2016 Alt. Residents

Paul Alexander, Musician / Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dan Disney, Poet / Seoul, South Korea
Caroline Clerc Artist / Los Angeles, CA, USA
Viviana Gonzalez, Visual Artist / Bogota, Colombia
Jennifer Scappettone, Eco-Poet / Chicago, IL, USA
Naya Magaliou Soulein, Artist / Athens, Greece

2016 Visitors

Lola Dompe’, Microbiologist / Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talulah Brown, Creative writing student / New York, NY, USA
Nancy Frelick, French Literature / Vancouver, BC, Canada
Alice Guarisco, Architect / Brescia, Italy
Sun-Ha Lee, Yogi / Seoul, South Korea
Isabel Martin, Cellist / Hagen, Germany
Asli Suner, Architect / Istanbul, Turkey
Adrian Wong, SCI-Arc Student / Hong Kong, China
Sermin Kardestuncer, Artist / New York, NY, USA

2016 Lecturers

Giancarlo Aresi, Wood Engineer / Treviglio, BG, Italy
Pierino Bigoni, Micologo / Villa d’Ogna, BG, Italy
Giuseppe Locatelli, Mountain Guide / Val Taleggio, BG, Italy
Flavio Galizzi, Hunter / San Pellegrino Terme, BG, Italy
Patrizio Musitelli, Agronomist / Val Brembilla, BG, Italy
Nella Poggi, Paper Restoration / Bergamo, Italy
Stefano Torriani, Naturalist / San Pellegrino Terme, Bg, Italy

2015

Eugenia Bertulis
Canada

Posthuman-Centered Design
The design research project carried out at the NAHR residency is a response to the philosophical provocation that non-humans might have forms of agency. Human-centered design methods dominate industrial design practice today. How would a shift in epistemology from human-centered to more-than-human-centered design influence these research methods? What might it mean to ask a honeybee to give informed consent? What does a co-creative activity with a goat or a snail look like? How would one engage cheese culture in an ethnographic probe?

Eugenia Bertulis is an award-winning industrial designer teaching medical equipment design and digital part design at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is also doing PhD research at Simon Fraser University on plastic and plasticity as a philosophical model for ethical product design.

Mauro Sacchi
[in collaboration with Yule Lin]
Italy

Were Here
Were Here is a multidisciplinary project, an exploration of the habitat of Sottochiesa, Taleggio, through live performance, video art, photography, and street art. WE make visible the presence/absence of the body - be it human, animal, alive or inanimate - in the natural and built environment, and its effects therein transforming the outer space it is in (or not), however ephemerally, it stimulates an inner impression, a thought, a feeling upon there viewer. Here lies the possibility for communication, stimulating an inner impression, a thought, a feeling upon the viewer. Here lies the possibility for communication.

Mauro Sacchi is an Italian performer and artist based in Taiwan. Together with Yule Lin, a Taiwanese performer, choreographer and video artist, they are WE Theater (a Company that Makes Stuff).

Yule Lin
[in collaboration with Mauro Sacchi]
Taiwan

Were Here
Were Here is a multidisciplinary project, an exploration of the habitat of Sottochiesa, Taleggio, through live performance, video art, photography, and street art. WE make visible the presence/absence of the body - be it human, animal, alive or inanimate - in the natural and built environment, and its effects therein transforming the outer space it is in (or not), however ephemerally, it stimulates an inner impression, a thought, a feeling upon there viewer. Here lies the possibility for communication, stimulating an inner impression, a thought, a feeling upon the viewer. Here lies the possibility for communication.

YuHe (Bonnie) Lin is a Taiwanese performer, choreographer and video artist. Together with Mauro Sacchi, an Italian performer and artist, they are WE Theater (a Company that Makes Stuff).

Monica Cohen
Argentina

INSPERIENCE, The labyrinth of the senses through emotions
INSPERIENCE is an experience of self-transformation. This biophilic experiential project intends to change the harmful impact on our shared environment through an experience of senses. It takes place in virtual spaces that invite locals and tourists to increase their awareness on the pre-existent system of communication between human beings and nature. INSPERIENCE proposes an emulation of the system of communication between plants, fungi and insects that belong to the natural ecosystem of the Orobie Alps.

Monica Cohen is an Architect and Certified Biomimicry Specialist. Born in Argentina and founder of "Biomimicry Argentina Network," she works with organizations on special projects to create a new approach with innovations inspired by nature.

Christopher Norman
United States

1760, a porous wall in Val Taleggio
The Spanish Dukedom of Milan and the Republic of Venice divided the Taleggio Valley and marked the agreement with a series of steal known as Termenu. Today, the Termini are beautiful sculptural pieces worth visiting and understanding. The project present the experiences of getting to know the Termini through maps and photographs.

Christopher Norman graduated at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, and is practicing residential architecture in Los Angeles.

Idil Kemaloglu
Turkey & France

Kronos - "Mountain Moruk"
Mountain Moruk, Project Kronos born from the idea of creating a cabinet of curiosities is a form of an open air museum at Taleggio Valley, to piedmont of alpines where Sottochiesa is located. Design of the installation inspired by geomorphological formation of the alpines. Mountain moruk brings together natural elements of Taleggio Valley by creating a path and by layering the elements towards their attitudes.

Idil Kemalogio graduated in architecture from the Politecnico of Milano, she is currently a Master of Architecture student at Ecole National Superieure d'Architecture de Lyon (E.N.S.A.L), France.

Myck Dalrymple
United States

Visions of a Circular Economy through the Lens of Taleggio Valley
In order to avoid running out of resources on a finite planet, our economy must transition to one in wherein resources are recycled infinitely. The world can learn more about how to accomplish this by studying local, sustainable agricultural communities such as in the Taleggio Valley, where residents have been producing unique local cheeses for tens of generations with the same land, rain and sunshine.

Mack Dalrymple serves as the Director of University Sustainability Practices and a Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University, United States.

Robin Nanney
United States

Mirror Box
The Mirror Box project is a means of exploring an abstract relationship between the ground and imaginary space. The landscape in Val Taleggio is not a passive character and it engulfs a series of project models comprised largely of mirrors. The result is a mixed-up large space hiding within the earth.

Robin Nanney is a designer currently living and working in Los Angeles. Although she carries a BFA in sculpture from RISD and work experience on large-scale projects form Gehry Partners, Robin's primary work is as a residential designer grounded in craft, with a passion for material authenticity.

2015 Alt Res

Lisa-Rike Birkholz, Visual Artist / Berlin, Germany
Chandrakala Jain, Artist / New Delhi, India
Rosie Montford, Painter / London, UK
Angela Valeria, Artist / New York, NY, USA

2015 Visitors

KyungMi Shin, Artist / Los Angeles, CA, USA
Todd Grey, Artist / Los Angeles, CA, USA

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