Karpopotnik

a movie by Matjaž Ivanišin

It was about 1970, at the peak of the Yugoslavian ‘Black Wave’ when the young filmmaker Karpo Godina decided to travel with his camera through the flat hinterland of Vojvodina. As village was linked to village, an unusual road movie emerged. The multi-ethnic character of the region was translated into a wide variety of faces, languages and customs. The title: Imam jednu kucu (I Have a House).
Unfortunately, as time passed, only a few fragments of this original film were preserved. Forty years later, another filmmaker embarks on the same journey with his camera through this flat landscape in the footsteps of the young Karpo Godina. With fragments of the original material, using Super-8 and suitable folk music, a film in dreams emerges. This makes Karpotrotter into a more than successful homage to an idiosyncratic director. A film about Karpo Godina, without Karpo Godina.

Archives of Space

curated by the youngsters of Postaja

The video has been made by the boys and girls who attended the Archivio dell Spazio workshop in 2013 held by Massimo Croce, Alessandro Ruzzier and Carlo Andreasi.
It is a proper archive of photographic images and sound recorded in the houses of Topolò, both outdoor and indoor.
A website collects the archive: www.archiviodellospazio.it

10 years of Vrnitev

In 2004, to celebrate Stazione's 10th anniversary we decide to ask to the artists that had contributed to Stazione until then to create a symbolic comeback using a one-minute-video. We got 112 answers.
The premiere took place at the same time, 9pm, in more than 60 places around the world, on may 15th. Each screening was curated by the authors themselves, in very diverse situations: museums, private houses, galleries, pubs etc.
On that occasion, Stazione released a double dvd which we now present again.

Inauguration of the Little Free Library

Little Free Library is a "take a book, return a book" gathering place where neighbors share their favorite literature and stories. In its most basic form, a Little Free Library is a box full of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share.
http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/

Cre[a(c)tion]

It is the work of three artists, both a project and a performative act. It is a video work on creation, on man and the universe by artist Paride Di Stefano and film-maker Davorin Marc. The video becomes a musical score, performed live by musician Elvis Šahbaz  and Paride Di Stefano.

A tale that expands time and carves a space between compulsive rhythms and sidereal harmonies . A story that is perpetual motion between beauty and mystery, reality and ideas. A work that builds landscapes  of the soul, to get lost and find yourself again. 

Šuolni iz Trsta | The shoes from Trieste

a short film by Gregor Božič
starring Dora Ciccone and Luisa Battistig
(Slovenja/Germany; 12')

An old woman looking back upon her youth recalls a moment of fleeting elegance in a time of post-war misery. A simple story recounts the fate of a community on the Italo-Slovene border.
The film has been shot in the winter season in Topolò and its surroundings.

Earth drum

a workshop held by Enrico Malatesta

With Earth Drum I’d like to share with the boys and girls of Stazione my last two years of research on rudiments and on phantom sounds generated with simple gestures.
Rudiments...
I can’t get over this word...I want the simplest thing to be useful in translating what surrounds me, through the sound of my drum and I want it to be meaningless, without pity.

Enrico Malatesta (1985) is a percussionist active in the field of contemporary music and his personal research is aimed to extend the sonic and multi­material possibilities of percussion instruments through simple gestural techniques, able to realize complex polyrhythmic thicknesses and multiple information that exist between performer, space and instrument.

Narrative medicine

Nicoletta Suter and Anna Vallerugo

We use our narrative abilities every day, to tell ourselves to the others, to say something about us, about our past and also our expectations for the future. Likewise, a patient tells the doctor his "sickness history", which is the truest and comprehensive account of his disease. Today, in an age in which medicine has achieved extraordinary technological goals and the concept of an evidence-based medicine is widespread, a need to recover a relationship between doctor and patient has arisen. A relation in which the telling of one’s pathology to his doctor is considered as valuable as the clinical symptoms of his disease.
This Narrative Based Medicine not only refers to the patient’s past, but also to the past of the doctor and the relation between them.

Nicoletta Suter is Head of the Centre of Educational Activities at the Oncological Center (CRO)of Aviano, where she specializes in planning and organizing formative events. At the CRO Aviano she also promotes an introduction to Narrative Medicine in training programs, to improve the listening of others and ourselves.

Sadje Sonca | Sun Fruit

Text by Gregor Božič, illustrations by Barbara Ogrič Markež.

The monograph casts a light on the priceless cultural and natural heritage of the Goriška Brda area. The book features 63 illustrations of diverse fruits, describes their characteristics and reports several memories linked to them, gathered among the elderly inhabitants of the area.
The very first results of the research had already shown a risk of extinction for many species of fruit trees. Božič himself started planting in his orchard ancient fruit species, which were then taken into consideration also by local farmers.

Music in the lager

Concentration camp music workshop
held by Davide Casali
in collaboration with "Viktor Ullmann" Festival

The "Viktor Ullmann" Festival wants to rediscover composers and authors of the music that has been once defined as "degenerate" and is dedicated to the great Czech composer Viktor Ullman, highest example of "Concentration camp music". Ullmann composed and reviewed concerts in the camp of Terezin, where he lived the cultural life with great commitment and dedication.
The festival has a compulsory stop in Topolò (which hosted a very active Jewish community in the past) and instead of a simple concert decides for a workshop. The youngsters of Topolò and its surroundings will have a chance to discover, learn and perform for the public a repertoire of music written by the many composers that were confined and often killed in concentration camps, or by those who had to escape and migrate due to their religious belief. This workshop aims at passing on to the new generations both the horror of one of the worst diseases of the past century and the value of music and art in general, beauty and all the values that can overcome even situations of unspeakable bestiality.

Davide Casali directs this Festival and holds the workshop. Casali is a musician, ethnomusicologist and composer from Triest, involved since many years in the rediscovery of rare music scores and in the study of Hebrew Culture.

ONIRIC CABARET, or Topolò and the dream

Tiziana Bertoncini - violin
Matilde Malnati - cello
Francesca Zanchi - violin

Topolò as an imaginary, fantastic, dreamlike place. A place that is real and unreal, magic and concrete. During the past years I tried many times, in my dreams, to reach the village. And this "dreamlike village" is always transfigured when compared to the real one: it is beautiful or terrible, overlooking the sea, traffic congested, labyrinthine, a fortress.
And it is from dreaming, as a state of mind, that this nocturne musical theatre for three Figures -two violins and a cello- takes its form. A shadow-play on the edge of silence and darkness. Nothing is as it seems, everything slips away... elusively...
When? With pitch dark.

Tiziana Bertoncini graduated in classical violin at Siena Conservatory and painting at the Fine Arts’ Academy in Carrara.
After being playing in orchestras and chamber music ensembles, she focused on contemporary music, written and improvised. Her work is oscillating between a personal research on the instrument and its sound possibilities, towards composition and collaboration with artists of other medias. At the same time her interest is focused on the crossing and synthesis between visual elements and music/sound.

Udine Jazz Collective

Remembering Topolò
Notes from a poem

What happens when a group of young musicians and their favorite poets remember a place the’ve never been to?
Verses become the fulcrum on which rhythm, melody and improvisation fold up, to revive through the windows of the village, resonating between its houses, in the words of villagers and visitors, unconscious scenery of a unique composition.

The ensemble Udine Jazz Collective was born from the "Jazz music ensemble" courses held by Glauco Venier at "J.Tomadini" Conservatory of Udine. The goal is to give a chance to the jazz course students to experiment and deepen their contemporary ensemble experience. Over the years, many students have taken turns on the instruments, to then leave room for the newcomers; UJC is an elastic, constantly evolving ensemble, occasionally enriched by collaborations with special guests.

Martin Martin Janíček, Praha

S.L.S.S. (Specific Local Sound Sources)

"I would like to bring my recent instrument and develop a piece in Topolo.  This  means I would work in the village, recording sounds, finding other - specific local sound sources- materials, and also acoustic places between houses, etc...
the result should be installation with use of my instrument, but played in new conditions  with new materials and also new context".

Martin Janicek, sound-artist, sculptor, musician and sound designer works in the field of exploration of acoustic qualities of various materials-new music instrument-builder. Born in 1961, lives in Prague.