Fabrica

31/12/2024

Today introduces #175 William Bottin.

Guglielmo Bottin (1977) is music maker, sound artist and scholar based in Venice, Italy. After graduating in Psychology of Music at the University of Padua, he joined the sound and music department of Fabrica.

Before moving to the forefront of the contemporary electronic dance music scene with seminal releases on record labels such as Italians Do It Better, Eskimo and Bear Funk, he has worked as producer, arranger and remixer for Italian and international artists (Lucio Dalla, Rettore, Chambao).

In 2019, Bottin contributed to establish Biennale’s center for electronic music and multimedia. He has completed a PhD research project in musicology and technologies of groove at the University of Milan and he is a founding memeber of GRID, an academic research group on Italodisco.

Bottin has toured in more than 30 countries, from Americas to Australia, from Europe to Asia, from contemporary art galleries and underground parties to major clubs like Space and Pacha in Ibiza. He curated and performed in various music events for Biennale di Venezia and also carried out sound design for Mundadas’ Spanish Pavilion. In 2018 he was invited to play for the closing event at Biennale’s 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music.

Bottin’s sets are eclectic, unpredictable journeys into cosmic disco-not-disco, digging out obscure sounds from the past and reworking them for the post-modern dance floor. A reckless blend of retro-futuristic sounds and current electronica. Side-projects include Italian neo-wave band Cristalli Liquidi and synth-percussion project Deardrums. Bottin’s Horror Disco music was recently discovered by director Ana Lily Amirpour and licensed in the feature film Mona Lisa and The Blood Moon.

Connect with William
https://www.bottin.it/

28/12/2024

Today introduces #211 Joana Astolfi.

Joana Astolfi is an architect, artist and designer who draws visual inspiration from a broad universe of found objects and artefacts with a particular focus on memory and narrative. She treats space like a living thing — an active player in human drama. Astolfi completed a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in England. She lived and worked for 12 years outside her native Portugal, including extended forays in London, Italy, Munich, and Los Angeles.
During two years in Venice, she was part of Fabrica's Creative team.

Joana founded Studio Astolfi in 2009, which now comprises more than 20
collaborators (architects, designers, artisans, sculptors and artists), dedicating themselves to interior design, exhibition design, window displays, scenography, art direction and art installations.

Over the years, Studio Astolfi has received a series of awards, including ‘Best Visual Merchandising’ by Monocle Design Awards 2021 and ‘Best Luxury Interior Design Studio in Portugal’ by Luxury Lifestyle Awards2020.
Studio Astolfi’s client list includes Hermès, Ritz Hotel, Graham’s, L’Oréal, Torel Hotels Group, José Avillez Group, Claus Porto, André Ópticas, De La Espada, São Lourenço do Barrocal, CUF, Village Underground, NOS, Sonae, Costa Terra, Lisbon Oceanarium and Viúva Lamego, in addition to private clients for whom Studio Astolfi also creates bespoke spaces and art installations.

For Joana "Fabrica is creative audacity. It’s about being bold, coloring outside the lines, taking risks, celebrating mistakes, thinking sideways, dreaming high, questioning everything and assuming nothing. It’s about details, playfulness, curiosity and passion".

Connect with Joana
Website: www.studioastolfi.pt
Instagram:

24/12/2024

Today introduces #376 Andy P. Smith.⁠
⁠
Andy (Fabrica, 2006) is a book author, journalist and copywriter. In addition to his writing on music, culture, climate and technology, he has also produced creative work for Wieden+Kennedy, Budweiser, Airbnb, and Betaworks. He helps organizations tell their stories, recently in FinTech and HealthTech. Andy lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in a converted warehouse loft with his family. Visit him online at www.apsmith.net⁠
⁠
For Andy "Fabrica is a special place where creatives can collaborate and grow, but above all it is an international community of kind, talented people who have come to be lifelong friends".
⁠
Connect with Andy⁠
https://www.apsmith.net/

21/12/2024

Today introduces #601 Martina Zena.

Martina's Emilian roots have reached Milan, the city where she actually lives and works. The experimentation and contamination between different expressive fields is her constant attitude.
Drawing is the centre of her work but always in dialogue with a lot of languages and instruments like music, live performance, optical instruments, serigraphy, installation, ceramic, textile and design.

For Martina "For me there is a time “before” and a time “after” Fabrica.
There I made important connections that still affect and increase my life. The residency showed me how work can be a source of energy and creativity".

17/12/2024

Today introduces #131 Kirk Starkey.⁠
⁠
Kirk Starkey enjoys a multi-faceted career as a leading cross-over cellist, composer, producer and music editor (Director's Guild of Canada). Since 2017, he performs throughout Canada and the United States as a member of the award-winning ensemble Quartetto Gelato. Solo recordings Little Gidding and Songs of Sudbury showcase Kirk's original style integrating extended cello techniques and digital processing into a compelling and accessible medium.⁠
⁠
For Kirk "Fabrica changed everything! Coming from classical music, it was extraordinary to be surrounded by international talent and guest artists in many disciplines. Thankful for an unforgettable chapter."
⁠
Connect with Kirk⁠
www.kirkstarkey.com⁠

17/12/2024

Nel corso del 2024, Fabrica ha celebrato il suo 30° anniversario e per segnare questo straordinario traguardo abbiamo realizzato un documentario che racconta la storia, la creatività e l’energia della nostra comunità unica.

Il trailer de “The Concrete Castle” è ora online!

Stay tuned per conoscere le proiezioni in tutto il mondo, portando Fabrica più vicina a tutti.

“Fabrica è difficile da spiegare perché non è mai stata statica. Negli anni si è continuamente reinventata, con ogni nuovo direttore che ha portato la propria visione. Il documentario mette in luce l’evoluzione costante di questo laboratorio culturale, un luogo che si è adattato ai nuovi movimenti creativi, promuovendo al contempo la collaborazione tra discipline diverse.
Fabrica ha offerto una residenza artistica a oltre 800 persone che hanno avuto l’opportunità di sperimentare liberamente la propria creatività e vivere un’esperienza che ha cambiato la loro vita. Oltre alla bellezza di questo luogo, volevo esplorarne anche le sue contraddizioni. Fabrica non è sempre stata uno spazio di assoluta armonia, ma anche di tensioni, sfide e successi. Fabrica ha cambiato il mondo della creatività in molti modi e la vita della maggior parte dei suoi residenti, quasi come in una fiaba”.

Laura Sans, regista

In ordine di apparizione: Giovanni Tosato, Cosimo Bizzarri Anna Kulachek Lorenzo Vitturi

2024, Fabrica celebrated its 30th anniversary, and to mark this extraordinary milestone, we created a documentary that tells the story, ...

14/12/2024

Today introduces #596 Coralie Gourguechon.⁠
⁠
Coralie is a designer whose work revolves around the intelligibility of technical systems. She is interested in the lifecycle of electronic and digital devices, from the inner workings of a component to the larger infrastructures and supply chains involved in their manufacturing. She also likes to build makeshift electronic circuits and write stories to question the imaginaries of technical progress and our relationships with technology. ⁠
⁠
For Coralie Fabrica is "biking to Fabrica with a yellow bike, meeting ducks on the way, creativity spreading, knowing interesting people, countless spritz and gelati, lots of pizzas too, market on Saturdays and Venezia around the corner".

10/12/2024

Today introduces #296 Alejandro Mingarro⁠.

Alejandro was born in 1981 in Huesca, Spain, and spent his childhood drawing comics and customising toys with his brother Juan. Before arriving in Fabrica in 2004, Alejandro studied product design at Elisava. In 2007 he and Juan founded the multidisciplinary studio Brosmind in Barcelona where they work with illustration, art, design, video games, and installation. Their work has been published, exhibited and awarded worldwide.⁠
⁠
For Alejandro "Fabrica was a defining experience in my life. It shaped the way I work on projects, pushed me creatively, I met amazing people from all over the world, and made lasting friendships."⁠
⁠
Connect with Alejandro⁠
www.brosmind.com⁠
https://www.instagram.com/brosmind/⁠
http://facebook.com/brosmind ⁠
https://twitter.com/brosmind ⁠
https://www.tiktok.com/

07/12/2024

This week introduces #599 Giorgio Gasco⁠.
⁠
Giorgio Gasco completed the residency at Fabrica in 2016, specialising in product design, scenography, and conceptual installations. He earned a master's diploma in contextual design from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 2018. He is the co-founder of GROOVIDO, a furniture design studio focused on material research, influenced by digital culture's impact on interior spaces. Currently, he also covers the role of hybrid teachers at TUE Eindhoven.⁠
⁠
For Giorgio "Fabrica it's a lot, probably too much, a life-changing experience".
⁠
Connect with Giorgio⁠
http://www.groovido.com/⁠
https://www.instagram.com/studio_groovido/⁠
https://www.linkedin.com/in/giorgiogasco/

05/12/2024

Fabrica presents “UNTIL THE VERY END”, the final open studio of the A/W23-24 semester.

Attendance is only possible upon registration via the link in bio.

You will receive confirmation via email, as spots are limited.

On December 12th, we invite you to explore the projects of our resident artists around the theme of Ruralism. Fabrica’s doors will be open from 11AM to 6:30PM, when Mohammed El Hajoui will host the lecture “From Ash To Life.” It will be a unique opportunity to discover the residents’ works and experience the Fabrica spaces in a special way.
The event will conclude at 8PM.

Exhibition Statement:
Change hums along in the background of everything—a steady march, an unsettling melody, a choreography of beginnings masquerading as endings. things change to the point that they cease to exist. Here, change isn’t a clean slate but a sticky residue, where what dies clings stubbornly to what emerges, refusing to release its grip.

This collection of works deals with processes of change - changes towards the post-human, to the post-industrial, and with the recession and reinvention of institutions once considered immovable and immortal.

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born - not in defiance of the old, but tangled within it, inheriting its ruins, its contradictions, its ghosts. we continue along our march of change, until the very end.

Resident Artists:
Brecht De C**k 
David Robert 
Diego Perez De La Cruz 
Emerson Freire 
Georgia Satchwell 
Laura Tura .t.ura 
Mana Mohammadi .mana 
Martina Sanchetti 
Rebeca Alvaro .alvaro 
Roni Binder 
Sveva Conte

05/12/2024

Fabrica presents “UNTIL THE VERY END”, the final open studio of the A/W23-24 semester.

Attendance is only possible upon registration via the link in bio.

On December 12th, we invite you to explore the projects of our resident artists around the theme of Ruralism. Fabrica’s doors will be open from 11AM to 6:30PM, when Mohammed El Hajoui will host the lecture “From Ash To Life.” It will be a unique opportunity to discover the residents’ works and experience the Fabrica spaces in a special way.
The event will conclude at 8PM.
Exhibition Statement:
Change hums along in the background of everything—a steady march, an unsettling melody, a choreography of beginnings masquerading as endings. things change to the point that they cease to exist. Here, change isn’t a clean slate but a sticky residue, where what dies clings stubbornly to what emerges, refusing to release its grip.

This collection of works deals with processes of change - changes towards the post-human, to the post-industrial, and with the recession and reinvention of institutions once considered immovable and immortal.

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born - not in defiance of the old, but tangled within it, inheriting its ruins, its contradictions, its ghosts. we continue along our march of change, until the very end.

Resident Artists:
Brecht De C**k 
David Robert 
Diego Perez De La Cruz 
Emerson Freire 
Georgia Satchwell
Laura Tura .t.ura 
Mana Mohammadi .mana 
Martina Sanchetti 
Rebeca Alvaro .alvaro 
Roni Binder 
Sveva Conte

05/12/2024

SAVE THE DATE!

From Ash to Life
Evento aperto al pubblico su prenotazione
Fabrica, giovedì 12 dicembre, ore 18:30

Una conversazione tra Mohammed El Hajoui, artista italo-marocchino, e Jasmine Barri, fotografa di origini italo-palestinesi.

Il punto di partenza del dialogo è 'Ardna', un’installazione creata da El Hajoui in solidarietà con il popolo palestinese. L’opera, composta da un ulivo circondato da un tappeto di cenere, rappresenta un potente simbolo di speranza. La cenere, fertilizzante naturale, evoca infatti il ciclo della rinascita e suggerisce la possibilità di un futuro per un popolo che oggi vive tragiche vicende.

Durante l’incontro, i due artisti alterneranno riflessioni e letture di alcune poesie di Mahmoud Darwish, poeta palestinese di fama mondiale, che saranno poi condivise con il pubblico per creare un momento di connessione e ascolto collettivo.

Prenota il tuo posto qui:
https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-from-ash-to-life-1095030338219