EN_ In September 2025, the Correnti residency took place, centring in particular on the area around the River Isonzo between Kanal and Gradisca, on the border between Slovenia and Italy. The participants – visual artists, multimedia artists and musicians – were invited to explore the area and, at the same time, to get to know the other members of the group through a playful approach, in order to experiment with dynamics of collective exploration and creation.

During the week-long residency, the participants engaged with local residents, particularly during three evenings of performances, musical improvisations and installations created by the group, in dialogue with three different venues: Kreativna cona in Nova Gorica, the Circolo Arci Gong in Gorizia and the Trattoria al Poeta in San Martino del Carso. For several months, before, during and after the residency, the group drew inspiration

from the local area, collecting and creating stories, videos, photos, illustrations, sounds and sculptures, from which curiosities, themes addressed and lived experiences emerge. A selection of these materials takes shape in the game Correnti / Tokovi, open to transformation through audience participation. The Altrememorie Cultural Association conceived and coordinated the project, with logistical and organisational support from Matteo Carli, Giovanni Chiarot and Marta Savorgnan; Eleonora Sovrani curated the project and took part in the residency alongside Francesca Cogni, Giulio Polloniato, Lenart de Bock, Maria João Petrucci, Rafhael Comodino, Tilen Kravos, Yoann Van Parys and Žiga Ipavec. Francesco Bevilacqua assisted with the installation of the exhibition.

The Correnti collective grew out of meetings and collaborations over time and came together for the first time in Salcano on 16 September 2025.

Some had travelled from Venice, Padua or Udine, others from Genoa, Brussels, Berlin, Ljubljana, San Pietro di Gorizia and São Paulo. Each participant introduced themselves to the group through their favourite game, including Memory, hopscotch, hide-and-seek and Chinese whispers, recounting their own story inspired by the Isonzo river valley, such as ‘Gor and Izia’, ‘Ondina Returns to the River’, ‘Mia’s Diary’ and ‘Paprika’, or through sound and culinary creations. Playing, improvising and exploring the area together, as well as sharing meals and sleeping arrangements, deepened our mutual understanding, but crucial to this was everyone’s openness to the degree of risk involved in experimenting with unusual and communal practices and perspectives.

During the exploration, we moved about alone or in groups, before meeting up again to exchange the clues gathered along the way – clues insufficient to describe the places fully, yet invaluable for bringing shared questions and trajectories to the fore. The Isonzo exerted a magnetic pull on the group members, so much so that its banks, on the border between Italy and Slovenia, often became the site of unplanned encounters.