MOST Movement Observation Sound Territory

MOST is an imaginary bridge that crosses space, time, dimensions and boundaries.

A passage, an experiment. Stories and memories, traces and wonders.

Houses open up, woods pass through, culture and nature intertwine.

MOST is a bridge between historical and new inhabitants, and between generations.

It is a bridge between the life of the country and the arts, between what is imaginable and real.

MOST is a “three-day event,” a microfestival that involves historic and new residents of Topolò in its programming and implementation, who are also part of the new community that revolves around the Topolò/Topoluove Association.

The houses, the village spaces and the forest will be inhabited by installations, walks, practices, performances, and musical experiments.

MOST opens on Friday, August 22nd at 5:00 PM with installations by Antônio Frederico Lasalvia, Attila Faravelli, Elena Rucli, Francesco Schievano, Seiiji Morimoto, Thomas Lehn, Titta C. Raccagni, Tiziana Bertoncini, and Valerio Bergnach. It will then continue with two musical interventions: in the first, Thomas Lehn's piano and analog synthesizer will merge into a single instrument; Ute Wassermann, on the other hand, will present a highly amplified set, in which she will improvise structures that will be expanded, modified, or destroyed on stage in a constant process of creation.

On Saturday, August 23, the installations will be activated at 3 pm, and then the next meeting will take place at the Stamorčak pools for the performance of Strange songs for voice and bird whistles, in which Ute Wassermann will create a hybrid vocal figure with a sculptural, oscillating and swirling tonality.

From Stamorčak, Alessandra Breda will gather the audience and, with Sottili trame, ovvero camminata dell'attenzione, will lead them to the woods where Tiziana Bertoncini and Barbara Stimoli will perform the duo Infrasottile (a study) between violin and dance.

The evening continues with the presentation of the ERBA projects by Philipp Kolmann and Suzanne Bernhardt and of Uncomm Fruits by the Robida collective from Topolò and Zavod Cepika from Goriška Brd.

The tasting of the cherry soda created especially for the project will be followed by a dinner designed and created by ERBA.

After dinner, as darkness falls, the nighttime installations will also be activated, including the projection of the video Subterranean Transaction by Antônio Frederico Lasalvia, a young Brazilian architect living in Topolò, onto the wall of the Jeukina Hiša house.

The video is a recording of an action he carried out himself in 2023 in which, in the space of a day, land belonging to two neighboring countries (between Italy and Slovenia) was clandestinely exchanged.

In place of what was once national soil, there is now land from the other side of the border.

Sunday, August 24th is a day conceived in part by children and dedicated to them, but not only.

We begin at 10 am with the blueprint workshop Between Blue and Green facilitated by photographer Lara Carrer, and then descend to the Stamorčak pools for a multispecies healing, a participatory practice proposed by interdisciplinary artist Titta C. Raccagni.

After the community lunch curated by researcher and artist Elena Braida, MOST concludes with a treasure hunt conceived and led by the girls from Topolò, Amalia, Dora Greta, Sofia, and Sol.

In this treasure hunt, we will search along the path they love so much for the hidden traces and clues that will lead us to their treasure, reliving the wonder and joy, the amazement and fear, of when we were little and got serious.