Ultra-red (US/UK) è il collettivo invitato per la nuova edizione di A Week From Monday, progetto di residenza artistica ormai consolidato di Holydays e Viaindustriae.

Dal 1994 opera all’intersezione tra arte e attivismo, con un approccio interdisciplinare, che utilizza il suono come strumento per esplorare questioni sociali e politiche. I lavori comprendono performance, installazioni e progetti partecipativi, spesso legati a temi come migrazione, razzismo e trasformazioni urbane.

In questa nuova edizione di A Week From Monday, la residenza si trasforma da esperienza di produzione artistica, a percorso laboratoriale. Nei giorni precedenti al festival e durante, infatti, i membri del collettivo Chris Jones ed Elliot Perkins guideranno un gruppo di partecipanti, invitato dalle due associazioni, in una sperimentazione laboratoriale sul suono e sull'ascolto, articolata in tre incontri che precedono il talk pubblico.

Durante il talk di domenica 2 agosto, Ultra-red esplorerà come l'ascolto collettivo, il dialogo e la riflessione possano costituire un'azione politica capace di rafforzare e interrogare criticamente l'organizzazione comunitaria e le relazioni che la sostengono. Insieme ai partecipanti e alle partecipanti del laboratorio, condividerà inoltre impressioni e riflessioni emerse dal lavoro svolto collettivamente.

Il talk si svolgerà in lingua inglese, con momenti di confronto e interventi in inglese e in italiano.

Illustrazione da “Il Menotre”, Anno I, Num. 7, agosto 1927

A Week From Monday is a residency project for visual artists and musicians working together for a week in Scopoli (Foligno, PG). The residency aims to produce a publication published by Viaindustriae in collaboration with Holydays, with a record edited by Holydays and Rous Records; a live musical performance by the musicians who took part in the residency that occurs during the Holydays Festival in Scopoli. Scopoli hosts the residency week; its rich and fragile natural and social context becomes the protagonist of the participants' own research. During their stay, the selected artists and staff stay overnight in the earthquake-proof wooden "cottages" - formerly destined for evacuees - marking a change in the destination of places that preserve the memory of the earthquake experience. The first residency in 2020 resulted in a publication with a CD that collects visual and sound materials produced during the seven days of work with the visiting artists Giacomo Infantino and Francesca Ruberto and the musicians Laura Agnusdei, Matteo Pennesi, Luca Sguera (see publication: https://publishing.viaindustriae.it/a-week-from-monday/); the second residency in 2021 resulted in a publication with the same format as the previous one, which collects the materials produced by the visual artist Davide Barbini and the musicians ksara, Vincenzo Marando, Steve Pepe; the third residency in 2023 resulted in an artist's book, an artist's record and a cd.

A Week From Monday is a residency project for visual artists and musicians working together for a week in Scopoli (Foligno, PG). The residency aims to produce a publication published by Viaindustriae in collaboration with Holydays, with a record edited by Holydays and Rous Records; a live musical performance by the musicians who took part in the residency that occurs during the Holydays Festival in Scopoli. Scopoli hosts the residency week; its rich and fragile natural and social context becomes the protagonist of the participants' own research. During their stay, the selected artists and staff stay overnight in the earthquake-proof wooden "cottages" - formerly destined for evacuees - marking a change in the destination of places that preserve the memory of the earthquake experience. The first residency in 2020 resulted in a publication with a CD that collects visual and sound materials produced during the seven days of work with the visiting artists Giacomo Infantino and Francesca Ruberto and the musicians Laura Agnusdei, Matteo Pennesi, Luca Sguera (see publication: https://publishing.viaindustriae.it/a-week-from-monday/); the second residency in 2021 resulted in a publication with the same format as the previous one, which collects the materials produced by the visual artist Davide Barbini and the musicians ksara, Vincenzo Marando, Steve Pepe; the third residency in 2023 resulted in an artist's book, an artist's record and a cd.