May 16th 2015 – Open-studio at the Colonia

Over 400 the people who have come by Borca, between morning and night, on Saturday May the 16th, during the first open-studio of the season, curated by Dolomiti Contemporanee in Progettoborca.
And it was everything but a mass carnival, no country festivals on Gellner, naturally, and the quality, because numbers are relative, but quality, in things and people (and thus in the the so called public), is absolute.
And no rain, light seeping through until twilight: we’ve taken it all.
New spaces have been prepared, inside the endless Colonia (Eng.: Summer Camp Building), and presented to the public.
Made of many artists, cutrators, architects; of guests came from far away; of friends and the DC group, which has handled the complex event and the enthropic fluxes; of many young and not young people of Borca and the valley, came to see this slice of their territory and history again, now re-opened; of the administrators of this land, who work together with us; and of the climbers of Partyblock, ready for the parade, who have climbed, and traced the blocks.
The inner Spaces, and the outer ones, were full of things; artworks, and performances most of all, which are the best instrument to turn back on these Spaces, which were just waiting to be taken up and lived aain, and that still breathed, in the continuous transit from concrete to green, every open door, the two organisms permeating one another in a rhythm.
The perfomance of Madame Murmure, making the sound of its cut tree resonate dramatically; the one by Marta Allegri, who has thrown bricks and prepared a soup, to change the smell of the recovered lodging and of the Colonia, together with Adolf Loos (parole nel vuoto). The one by Sandro Cecchin and Francesco Fantozzi, who have played, electric and acoustic, in peripatetics and sets, through the halls, the corridors, and the ramps, the woods and the cabins; the boulderists who tried out their climbing shoes on the walls of the pavilions.
The great terrace of the Auditorium has received people, after the first, long tour through the Colonia, nourished by these and other things for three hours.
And then, in the evening, the visit to Our Lady of the Cadore, walking up the woods from the Overlook-Boite Hotel.
And then again in the Cottages, where Progettoborca‘s artist Residency lays, and where the pines and the firs get inside the houses by the balconies, and there, finally, the rain did come, and Mt. Pelmo got all worked up.
Coming soon the photos of everything, and the videos, and the excerpt from TGRegione Veneto, and then the national news. While we’re in Casso today, where the exhibit of the projects which have reached the finals in the TWOCALLS contest is still open.
And on we go.