The OMNE/WORK project was launched in 2016 on the occasion of the first artist residency organised by Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est. WORK is the theme on which research during the first year of Osservatorio focused. It addressed the participants’ activity: nine authors and one collective, selected through a international public call, who stayed in Castelfranco Veneto while taking part in a 12-days artist residency.
During the residency the guest artists were able to visit some local companies and take part in a very consistent program of meetings, conferences and workshops organised within the scope of the project. The artists were guided and coordinated by the workgroup consisting of Leonardo Delogu, Hans Gremmen, Stefano Raimondi, Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi, Petra Stavast.
Between commonplaces and strong reality, the Northeast territory consecrated its image to work. Thanks to work a territory was built, landscape was transformed, and the future of a very wide geographical area was decided. WORK as basis of a social contract that keeps a community united, re-organises the space of private and public life. WORK as constant movement, that becomes urban plan, infrastructure but also ritual, and produces new forms of being together.
Ten different visions intertwined memory and the contemporary on a common ground by interpreting the landscape of Northeast. Deepening the reading of the territory of Castelfranco Veneto the authors have outlined paths between the historic centre and the immediate suburbs, crossed urban and rural landscapes exploring the industrial areas identified within the thematic path studied by Leonardo Delogu. From this path and from the network of infrastructures, the investigation continued within some important productive realities of the territory. Here, the artists had the opportunity to collect testimonies, images, sounds, information, to return them, then, through personal projects presented in the form of photographic sequences, video processing, texts, visual and sound installations.
Next to the projects of artists-in-residence Mattia Balsamini, Kirsti Taylor Bye, Christian Lange, Mårten Lange, Massimo Mastrorillo, Brent Meistre, Karin Apollonia Müller, Josef Schulz, Nigel Shafran, TFTF, OMNE/WORK includes the original work of three artists invited to contribute to the project: “Construction – Reconstruction – Restoration – Reparation – Revision” is the title of the work by Petra Stavast based on the archive documents found in F.E.R.V.E.T. factory, which now are in the Municipality’s library and a dedicated archive; “The smell of elderberry” refers to the same factory, and it is a poem divided into 22 rooms, composed by Stefano Raimondi following a visit to the abandoned spaces of the historic factory of the F.E.R.V.E.T., “LL.PP. 1996-1997”, by Massimo Sordi, presents a collection of images, taken from the photographer’s personal archive, depicting employees and workers of the Municipality of Castelfranco on the job.
The productions of all the artists involved in the OMNE/WORK project were exhibited during OMNEFEST at the Museo Casa Giorgione, Torre Civica and Casa Costanzo in Castelfranco Veneto from 12th October to 9th December 2018. A selection of the works of the artists in residence was later shown in the exhibition “OMNE/WORK. Territorio come laboratorio” prepared in D.O.O.R., Rome, 11th June – 22nd September 2019.
The projects of the artists-in-residence and the invited photographers, together with the contributions of lecturers and experts who took part in the cycles of meetings, public conferences, walks and workshops, organized in the biennium 2016-2018, were collected and published in the volume OMNE/WORK 2016-2018, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018.
The productions realized for the OMNE/WORK project represent a choral reading of gazes, listenings, essays and contributions. This is the first phase of a research designed to be expanded through new themes of investigation, to achieve a deeper awareness of the territory and the environment, through the analysis of the different aspects present in it.
Artisti in residenza
Mattia Balsamini, Kirsti Taylor Bye, Christian Lange, Mårten Lange, Massimo Mastrorillo, Brent Meistre, Karin Apollonia Müller, Josef Schulz, Nigel Shafran, TFTF
Artisti invitati
Stefano Raimondi, Massimo Sordi, Petra Stavast
Activities organized during the WORK artist residency (from 31st May to 11th June 2016)
31st May 2016
→ Leonardo Delogu “Work on body and gaze” / Workshop
→ Luca Pozzobon “Framework of the territory, criticality as potential” / Conference
→ Giacinto Cecchetto “Work and places of work in Castelfranco Veneto in the last century” / Conference
1st June 2016
→ Giacinto Cecchetto “Giorgione and the landscape” / Conference
2nd June 2016
→ Exploring the city of Castelfranco Veneto on foot”, walk created and conducted by Leonardo Delogu / Walk
3rd June 2016
→ Hans Gremmen “Ampersand” / Conference
4th June 2016
→ Petra Stavast “Converting the archive”/ Conference
6th June 2016
→ Francesco Bergamo “Landscape and sound: interactions with acoustic environment in the arts” / Workshop
→ Claudia Roselli “Art as narration of urban space” / Conference
7th June 2016
→ Stefano Raimondi “Silence in places of abandonment” / Conference
8th June 2016
→ Stefano Raimondi “Laboratorio F.E.R.V.E.T.” / Workshop
→ Stefano Raimondi “Poetics of spaces; the posture of word” / Conference
→ Stefano Raimondi, Giovanni Turra, Gian Mario Villalta “The poets’ places. The places’ poetry” / Reading
Title | Activity | Author | Category | Collaboration | Place | Year | |
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OMNE/WORK 2016-2018 | WORK | OMNE | AWARD | Milano | 03-06-2020 | ||
OMNE/WORK 2016-2018 | WORK | OMNE | AWARD | Berlino | 01-11-2019 | ||
OMNE/WORK. Territory as a laboratory | WORK | Various Artists | EXHIBITION | D.O.O.R. ROMA | Roma, DOOR | 22-06-2019 | |
OMNE/WORK 2016-2018 | WORK | OMNE | AWARD | Varsavia | 10-06-2019 | ||
Children in a carriage! Travelling with photography. Project FAMU Families at the Museum | WORK | MUSEO CASA GIORGIONE | LAB | Castelfranco Veneto, Museo Casa Giorgione | 28-10-2018 | ||
OMNE/WORK 2016-2018 | WORK | Various Artists | PUBLICATION | 30-09-2018 | |||
Costruzione-Ricostruzione-Ristrutturazione-Riparazione-Revisione | WORK | PETRA STAVAST | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
LL.PP. (Lavori Pubblici) 1996-1997 | WORK | MASSIMO SORDI | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
L’odore del sambuco | WORK | STEFANO RAIMONDI | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
F.E.R.V.E.T. Low-Fi | WORK | TFTF | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
Photocopies, tadpoles and tickets [After Giorgione] / Cellulare | WORK | NIGEL SHAFRAN | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
Roundabout / Capannone / Le torri di Castelfranco | WORK | JOSEF SCHULZ | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
Works of work | WORK | KARIN APOLLONIA MÜLLER | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
Cavallo di Lavoro / La puledro | WORK | BRENT MEISTRE | PROJECT | 01-08-2016 | |||
1:26-28 | WORK | MASSIMO MASTRORILLO | PROJECT | 31-07-2016 | |||
Empty Rooms | WORK | MÅRTEN LANGE | PROJECT | 31-07-2016 | |||
The Photographer And The Piano | WORK | CHRISTIAN LANGE | PROJECT | 31-07-2016 | |||
Break my body | WORK | KIRSTI TAYLOR BYE | PROJECT | 31-07-2016 | |||
Resources available. Time, space, work and proximity to home | WORK | MATTIA BALSAMINI | PROJECT | 31-07-2016 | |||
The places of poets. The poetry of places | WORK | STEFANO RAIMONDI, GIOVANNI TURRA, GIAN MARIO VILLALTA | Reading | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 08-06-2016 | ||
F.E.R.V.E.T. laboratory | WORK | STEFANO RAIMONDI | LAB | F.E.R.V.E.T., Castelfranco Veneto | 08-06-2016 | ||
The poetics of spaces, the posture of the word | WORK | STEFANO RAIMONDI | LAB | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 08-06-2016 | ||
The silence of abandoned places | WORK | STEFANO RAIMONDI | LAB | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 07-06-2016 | ||
Art as narration of urban space | WORK | CLAUDIA ROSELLI | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 06-06-2016 | ||
Landscape and sound: interactions with the acoustic environment in the arts | WORK | FRANCESCO BERGAMO | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 06-06-2016 | ||
Converting the archive | WORK | PETRA STAVAST | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 04-06-2016 | ||
Ampersand | WORK | HANS GREMMEN | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 03-06-2016 | ||
Exploring the city of Castelfranco Veneto on foot | WORK | LEONARDO DELOGU | WALK | Castelfranco Veneto | 02-06-2016 | ||
Giorgione and the landscape | WORK | GIACINTO CECCHETTO | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 01-06-2016 | ||
Work | WORK | Various Artists | ARTIST RESIDENCY | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 31-05-2016 | ||
Work and workplaces in Castelfranco Veneto in the last century | WORK | GIACINTO CECCHETTO | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 31-05-2016 | ||
Framework of the territory, criticality as potential | WORK | LUCA POZZOBON | CONFERENCE | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 31-05-2016 | ||
Work on the body and the gaze | WORK | LEONARDO DELOGU | LAB | Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto | 31-05-2016 |