March 11 2026
NEW WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
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August 2 — 5 2023
Unpae Summer Residency (Ed. 5) for Performers
We look forward to seeing you in Roccacaramanico on Aug. 5 2023 at 05:00 PM for the 5th edition of the summer residency with a performance by Marco-Augusto Basso (@millepiani) and Guilhem Prat (@yemgi).
Guilhem Prat (@yemgi) is an artist and graphic designer who works alone or with others, with the central idea of reading and giving to read, of listening or making others listen, to no longer necessarily think in terms of productions (visual, textual, sound) but rather to look towards how these circulate, communicate and exist in our contemporary environment. Member of the publishing and radio project At the Same Time, his work attempts to imagine other poetic and relational narratives, revolving around the gesture of publishing, installations, printed objects and performances.
Marco-Augusto Basso (@millepiani) is an artist and researcher. Sculptor, he now focuses on music composition as a performative act. He was involved in the seventh edition of the 'Resistere e Creare' festival of the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa, in which he concluded the cycle of performances 'Moyocoyatzin' inspired by the current of Post-exoticism.
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February 2023 — ongoing
Unpae, Marea Art Project, Habitat
Dialogo informale
Since February 2023 Unpae has launched the project "Dialogo informale" (Informal Dialogue) to create a space for discussion among various realities and researchers working on cultural work in marginal territories. We are just at the beginning of this collaborative work that involves Habitat (@habitattt.it) , Marea (@mareartproject) and Claudio Costantino (@clautio.c) PhD student in Architecture and Design. The goal is to bring out thoughts, feelings, issues that we encounter during the realization of creative projects. The informal dialogue will take shape of a small publication.
April 2023 — ongoing
Alice Peach and Francesco De Bernardi
Working on an artist book about Roccacaramanico
In spring 2023 Alice Peach (@alice__peach) and Francesco De Bernardi (@francesco_de_bernardi) were in residence in Roccacaramanico, inhabiting the village for a long weekend.
In the coming months we will work together on an editorial project, an object-book that becomes a display in which to arrange ideas, drawings and stories.
The choice of artists is related to the presence in the residence house of many objects collected over the years and the affective energy that emerges from them.
The idea is to recreate the familiar and alienating atmosphere present in homes from the most intimate moments to the collective ones of birthday parties. A narrative bordering on the fairy tale in which there are ironic, real, childish objects, things that lose their function and transform to give birth to other stories.
The idea is to recreate the familiar and alienating atmosphere present in homes from the most intimate moments to the collective ones of birthday parties. A narrative bordering on the fairy tale in which there are ironic, real, childish objects, things that lose their function and transform to give birth to other stories.
A funny character ready to become the protagonist of the tale.
Creative direction and production: @andrea.c.stile
Curator: @alessia.dellirocioli
Photographer: @francesco_puppo
October 14 — 16 2023
Angelo Licciardello x Unpae
ArtVerona 17
The project was developed by Unpae in collaboration with Angelo Licciardello for the LAB section of ArtVerona, curated by Giulia Floris. For the first time, the artist was not hosted in the spaces of the residency. In the environment of the exhibition, we worked on the construction of a narrative bordering on the fantastic, a familiar and alienating atmosphere that we tried to recreate can be experienced in the mountain village or in the domestic environment.
For several months we shared thoughts and ideas about the childish and affective imagination in relation to the figure of the animal. The wild animal is apparently no longer present in our lives. In its various representations, it is reduced to a "polished symbol" (John Berger - Why look at animals?) and thus infantilized. From this point of view the bear can be associated with Pinocchio: it is part of our childhood, we find it on bedroom dressers and in family photos with us children. In the space coexist childish symbols, animals and objects that often lose their function.
The display is given by the image of the mountain souvenir shop, a place in which live worn-out and images that look all the same, which preserve a rudimentary and spontaneous aesthetic. Angelo decided to hide among the installation elements, phrases from a poem particularly dear to him written by the poet Nikki Giovanni. Particular to the poem is the surreal imagery (the author identifies herself as a motionless, soggy mushroom), an atypical element in her social struggle-oriented career. The calendar becomes a display for a portrait of a dog sleeping in his bed, in the first days of January. Sleep can be read in the elements of the bed and fleece blanket, objects that stand between relaxation and death.
September 2023
Gabriele Zagaglia
With the contributions of Unpae's residents
Le stelle cadenti diventano cardi e i desideri si svegliano tardi
The editorial project was created in collaboration with Gabriele Zagaglia. The idea is to recount the five years of residency through the memory of the artists and researchers who participated over the years. We believe that affective remembrance is a central element of Unpae, a feeling that transforms, the contours of the image blur and create different sensations with the passage of time. We asked residents for a spontaneous contribution that took on new forms and went on to make up the poster. The name takes up a nursery rhyme invented during the 2021 edition of the residency.
Contributions by Sara Ravelli, Jacopo Belloni, Alice Pilusi, Marco de Leonibus, Alberto Rota, Alessandro Gabini, Stefania Carlotti, Andrea de Liberato, Giorgia Garzilli, Lorenzo Kamerlengo, Chiara Druda, Lorena Florio, Francesco Alberico, Matei Vladimir Colțeanu