Nuit des Cabanes - Living Tomorrow

Theatrical performance by Planetaria

Reservations required

17:00 (30 min)
Complessita Future/Future complexities
Carré fleuri

Presented by CLIMA.

The year is 2085. Three speeches by a mother, a father and a daughter intertwine to tell the story of how humanity controversially confronted and resolved the climate crisis over the next fifty years. In 2025, the mother founded the ARC, Rome’s Climate Authority, the key player in the environmental policies that saved the planet after the shock of a sudden and deadly warming of the Mediterranean. Today, his son is its president, and is celebrating the institution’s fiftieth anniversary in triumphal tones. But the ARC’s policies, despite their undeniable successes, have dissatisfied a section of society to which the daughter, soul of the CLC, the Climate Liberties Committee, gives voice. Climate is a complex challenge, the important thing is to discuss it.

CLIMA is a forum dedicated to renewing the narratives around climate change. Its first edition will be hosted on July 2, 2025 at the Villa Médicis, with the support of Open Society Foundations and the Laudes Foundation.

Choirs conducted by Riccardo Martinini

No reservation required, subject to availability

17:00 and 18:00 (30 min)
Wander through the Chiostro and Pan-orama cabannes

Conversation with Emanuele Coccia and MBL architectes

No reservation required, subject to availability

17:30 (30 min)
Emanuele Coccia (philosopher), Sébastien Martinez-Barat (MBL architects)
MBL-7L cabannes

Conversation between MBL Architects and philosopher Emanuele Coccia: Emanuele Coccia continues his reflection on mobile and responsible architecture – but designed to last. After exchanges with the Orizzontale collective (2023) and Manuel Bouzas (2024), this year he is in dialogue with MBL architects, as part of the 7L and Villa Médicis project.
Programmed in partnership with Librairie 7L.

Performance reading by Emma Bigé & Clovis Maillet

No reservation required, subject to availability

18:00 (30 min)
Cutting out extinctions
Carré fleuri

Faced with massive species collapse and multiple losses, how do we live with collective mourning? Inspired by queer and trans* practices such as TDoRs, this conversation-snooze-ritual with the fellow Clovis Maillet and Emma Bigé invites us to “mourn”-that is, to honor the lost and find ways to survive together in the midst of loss.
Programmed in partnership with Les liens qui libèrent.

Performance by Maroussia Rebecq

No reservation required, subject to availability

18:00 (30 min)
Upcycled fashion show
Carré des agrumes

Habiter son corps: 8 comme l’infini blends fashion and performance. Sculptural poses, hanging scarves, a photographer captures this ritual in a loop, creating a living, poetic archive.

In collaboration with students from RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts from the 3 courses Fotografia e audiovisivo, Fashion design sostenibile, and Fine arts – performance art.

Dance Katerina Andreou

SOLD OUT

18:30, 19:45 (25 min)
BSTRD
MBL-7L cabanne

Katerina Andreou presents BSTRD, a solo performance born in 2018, where dance and house music mingle. On a stage, she brings to life a choreography punctuated by unexpected gestures, questioning the very origin of movement. A unique experience combining spontaneity and structure.
Programmed in partnership with Librairie 7L.

Choirs conducted by Riccardo Martinini

No reservation required, subject to availability

6:30, 7:30 and 8:15 pm
Loggia Balthus

Musical performance by Pierre-Yves Macé and Silvia Tarozzi

SOLD OUT

18:30 (30 min)
Frayages
Cistern

Frayages is a musical piece for violin and electronics, created by the fellow Pierre-Yves Macé and Silvia Tarozzi. Inspired by the neurological concept of “frayage” – the repetition of a passage between neurons – the violinist physically moves around the loudspeakers, mixing instrumental gestures with electronic sounds.

Sound performance by Vittoria Assembri

No reservation required, subject to availability

19:00 (30 min)
Three stones, two tape recorders, a lemon tree
Cabane ARUNDO by atelier MARE

A sound hut designed from recycled personal archives, combining memory, ecology and poetry to create a space for active listening and transformation.

 

Performance reading by Alain Damasio

Reservations required

19:00 (45 min)
Stealth living
Carré de la sirène

A performance combining texts by Alain Damasio and philosophical reflection, exploring how animals stealthily inhabit our spaces, between visibility and invisibility, questioning our notions of habitat and cohabitation with nature.

Dance Anna Chirescu

No reservation required, subject to availability

20:15 (30 min)
Monte Verdura / in fieri
Carré fleuri

Anna Chirescu‘s monte verdura / in fieri project, in partnership with the Musée du Locle, gives body and voice to the utopias of the pioneering women of Monte Verità, exploring their heritage and our connection to nature. An engaging, choral creation.

monte verdura / in fieri marks the start of a month-long residency at Villa Medici, in partnership with the Ménagerie de verre. This stage will mark the start of a wider search for a choral piece, at the crossroads of performance, history and utopia.

Costume design: Anna Carraud
With support from Flux-Laboratory and MBAL
Studio home: la Ménagerie de verre de Paris, CN D Pantin.
Production Lava

Concert by Clarissa Connelly

SOLD OUT

8:45 pm (30 min)
Carré de la sirène

Ethereal compositions by Clarissa Connelly, in concert as a trio, weaving mythical landscapes and Nordic culture into spellbinding harmonies.
Presented by Threes Productions (Milan).
Programmed in partnership with SHAPE+, Creative Europe and Pro Helvetia.

Choirs conducted by Riccardo Martinini, grand finale

Without reservation

21:15 (15 min)
Piazzale

Concert by Clara Ysé

Without reservation

9:30 pm (30 min)
Piazzale

Clara Ysé will perform a few songs from her repertoire, accompanied by her pianist Camille El Bacha and the violinist Sylvain Rabourdin.

Performance by Smaïl Kanouté

Without reservation

22:15 (40 min)
Black Indians
Piazzale

Smaïl Kanouté offers a musical and dance performance. Accompanied by Senny Camara (kora), Dramande Dembélé (Peul flute) and Sylvain Rabourdin (violin), he invites us on a journey that celebrates memory, resilience and the richness of roots shared between New Orleans, West Africa and Paris.

Production: Compagnie Vivons
Coproduction: la Maison des Mondes Africains (ManSa), les Ateliers Médicis, le festival Viva Villa, la Villa Albertine, le Hangar Y de Meudon, Bozar de Bruxelles.
Performance created in collaboration with Julien Colardelle from Souffle Collectif.

DJ set by Crystallmess

Reservations required

23:15 (1h)
Piazzale

A hard-hitting DJ set, blending Afro-futurism, fragmented club rhythms and raw emotion for a hypnotic dance floor experience under the Roman sky.
Presented by Threes Productions (Milan).
Programmed in partnership with SHAPE+, Creative Europe and Pro Helvetia.

Botanical tours

Reservations required

Meet in the entrance hall of Villa Medici

For garden lovers, the“Lungo le stagioni” themed tours allow you to discover the exceptional flora of Villa Medici. Visitors will have access to areas usually closed to the public, such as the Bosco, the wildest area of the garden. The itinerary focuses on the historical context of these gardens, which have largely preserved their 16th-century layout, as well as their current role within the Villa Medici. They represent an invaluable living heritage, a place for experimentation and sharing. For over 10 years, the gardens have been the focus of an innovative eco-responsible management policy.

• 14:00-15:00: ITA
• 15:00-16:00 : FR
• 15:30-16:30: ITA
• 16:00-17:00: ENG
• 16:30-17:30: FR
• 17:00-18:00: ITA
• 6:00-7:00 PM: FR

 

 

Performative guided tours

Meet in the entrance hall of Villa Medici

• 14:00-15:00: Vittoria Assembri, artist and performer (IT)
  Reservation required

Listening in the gardens of Villa Medici

• 14:00-15:00: Clovis Maillet, 2024-2025 fellow at Villa Medici (FR)
  Reservation required

History of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct

• 15:30-16:30: Alia Bengana, Building with local materials, following the example of Villa Medici (IT)
  Reservation required
• 16:00-17:00: Sam Stourdzé, Director of Villa Medici (FR)
  Reservation required

Villa Medici citrus

• 16:30-17:30: Alessandro Gallicchio, Director of Villa Medici Art History Department (FR/IT)
  SOLD OUT

Visit of the underground passages of Villa Medici

• 17:00-18:00: Gerardo Fernandez Medina, agronomist and plant consultant at Villa Medici, and Françoise Laurent, architect and head of gardens at Villa Medici (FR/IT)
  SOLD OUT

Visit to Villa Medici scent gardens

The Wind Laboratory

Reservation required
2:00 PM, 4:00 PM (2 hours)
Alex Cecchetti
Cabane La Coque by Huttopia

The Wind Laboratory is a nomadic natural dyeing workshop. At each stop, plants, gestures, and stories intertwine to create living fabrics—traces of a place and a shared moment. The project weaves a collective, ecological, and poetic practice, where each color tells the story of an encounter.
The space will be accessible from 10:00 AM for workshop setup.

Construis ta cabane, KAPLA construction workshop for the whole family

No reservation required, subject to availability

17:00-21:00
Children’s square

 

Ex voto per un giardino

SOLD OUT

17:30-20:00
Valeria Carrieri and Alice Labor
Bosco

A collective embroidery, engraving and reading workshop to express invisible pain, share healing gestures and weave links between our bodies, our stories and the living.
The event is part of Alice Labor’s “Ecologie rituali / Ritual Ecologies” research project supported by the Italian Council (2024).

Picking and tasting

SOLD OUT

17:30-18:15 / 18:15-19:00 / 19:00-19:45 (45 minutes)
Zafferano Monticiano and Ruma
Well square

Tasting of buffalo mozarella produced by Ruma Bottega & Cucina Agricola x Zafferano Monticiano infused ice creams and other Zafferano Monticiano products.

Installation

Without reservation

18:00-00:30
Alex Cecchetti, La Casa del Vento

Cabane La Coque

 

Without reservation

18:30-00:30
Maroussia Rebecq x Andrea Crews, Installation of upcycled scarves

Carré des agrumes

 

Illuminations

Without reservation

21:00-00:30
Martin Flugelman
Gardens, Piazzale, Cabanes

 

Screenings curated by Alice Labor

No reservation required

21:00-00:30
Reinhabit the earth, the wind, the sea
Pan-orama Cabane by Associates Architecture

A selection of films delves into the garden as a space for re-learning forms of cohabitation. The garden becomes a ground for experimenting with languages, bodies, and identities, as well as for reflecting on cultural and political systems of resources’ extraction. The garden is transformed into a symbolic stage where human understanding of the world is redefined through communal practices. Its domesticated nature is questioned and challenged through diverse, silent visions of landscapes.

• Barbara Hammer, Cleansed II, 1969, 7’43
• Alice Visentin, What is the most beautiful thing in the world for you, right now?, 6′, 2025
• Cecilia Vicuna, Sol y dar y dad, una palabra bailanda, 1980, 7’25’’
• Noor Abed, Penelope, 2014, 6’28’
• Joan Jonas, Wind, 1968, 5’37’’

Born in Athens in 1983, Katerina Andreou is based in France. She graduated from the Athens School of Law and the Athens National School of Dance. She completed the ESSAIS program at the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers and holds a Master’s degree in choreographic research (Paris 8). As a performer, she has notably collaborated with DD Dorvillier, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Ana Rita Teodoro. In her work, she develops a physical practice unique to each project and explores states of presence that emerge from a constant negotiation between tasks, fictions, or contrasting and even contradictory universes, often challenging notions of authority and censorship. She creates the sound environment for her pieces herself, which becomes her main dramaturgical tool. She is an associate artist at the National Choreographic Center of Caen, Normandy, for 2022–2025, and with the EXERCE Master’s program at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier.

Vittoria Assembri is an Italian experimental sound artist and independent researcher in the field of sound arts and public architecture. Her research develops from site-specific deep listening, field recording practices and radio art, focusing on socio-cultural processes, the public sphere and environmental issues, with which she rewrites an affective and political landscape of resistance. She studied architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome and Theory and technique of electronic and electroacoustic music production and performance at the Ipostasi phonology studio in Milan. She is curator of the radio program ‘Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears’ on Fango Radio-IT and Wunderscorpion on Station station Radio-FR. She has performed and presented sound installations around Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan and Argentina at institutions, festivals, and venues such as Aomori Contemporary Art Center(JP), Taiwan C-LAB(Taiwan), Permian(JP), OTOOTO(JP), Bofill Foundation(ES), cheLA-Experimental Center of Latino America(AR), APNÉE(FR), JNB fest(ID), C3 (IT), among others. She lives and works between Italy and Japan.

Emma Bigé studies, writes, and translates across the fields of arts, queer studies, and environmental inhumanities. She holds the agrégation, a doctorate, and teaches philosophy in art schools. She is notably the author of Mouvementements. Écopolitics of Dance (La Découverte, 2023) and Ecotransfeminisms (with Clovis Maillet, LLL, 2025).

Clovis Maillet is a medieval historian and artist. He holds a doctorate from EHESS and is a fellow at the Villa Médicis. He has notably published Fluid Genders. From Joan of Arc to Trans Saints (Arkhè, 2020) and Ecotransfeminisms (with Emma Bigé, LLL, 2025).

Valeria Carrieri is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a degree in painting from HEAR Strasbourg and earned a doctorate in philology and criticism from the universities of Siena and Lausanne. Her research explores the emancipatory potential contained in narratives, stories, and archetypes considered as reservoirs of collective imaginaries and knowledge. She is particularly interested in the empty spaces left in ancient myths of Mediterranean folklore and literature, notably those that recount plant metamorphoses or the personification of natural elements. She regularly collaborates with artists and collectives and has participated in numerous exhibitions and residencies, including the Painting Symposium led by L. Presicce and VIR-Viafarini in Milan. In 2024, she was invited for IUNO COMMISSION #9. In 2025, she inaugurated two solo exhibitions featuring large-scale in situ installations at Galleria Studiolo (Milan) and Casa Vuota (Rome).

 

Alice Labor is a curator and researcher. In recent years, she has collaborated on and conceived projects for GAMeC (Bergamo), the Gherdëina Biennale (Ortisei), MACTE (Termoli), MUSE (Trento), Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan), Centro Pecci (Prato), and Castello di Rivoli (Turin). Between 2022 and 2023, she curated the Archivio Chiara Fumai. After studying in Rome, Oxford, and Aix-en-Provence, she earned a research doctorate from the Scuola IMT Alti Studi in Lucca and co-founded the curatorial collective CampoBase. She deepened her research at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), BAK (Utrecht), MAXXI (Rome), Museo Madre (Naples), and the research center of Castello di Rivoli (Turin). She is the author of texts published in exhibition catalogs, artist books, and academic or specialized journals such as ATP Diary, e-flux, Kabul Magazine, and Made in Mind. Her project Ecologie rituali / Ritual Ecologies received the Italian Council 13 research grant in 2024.

Alex Cecchetti is a Franco-Italian artist, poet, gardener, freediver, and choreographer. His multidisciplinary practice blends spirituality, ecology, poetry, and aesthetic research within participatory environments where the audience is often invited to experience transformative and multispecies encounters.
His works go beyond museum boundaries to activate real ecosystems as spaces of imagination and relationship.

Philosopher Emanuele Coccia described his work as an “aesthetic and ecological revolution,” in which every species is recognized as an artist and every environment as a living Kunsthalle.
Cecchetti creates poetic installations where visitors are invited to dance like dervishes, sleep to the sound of human choirs imitating whales, or walk on paths that are also poems.

His work is enriched by multispecies collaborations: natural dyes made with plants, immersive walks in gardens, mountains, or countryside, and the Love Bar, where plant-based cocktails and love stories intertwine in an aesthetic and relational experience.

In 2025, he will present new exhibition projects at Frac Franche-Comté, Lille 3000 – Gare Saint Sauveur, the group exhibition Demain l’Océan? at Salle du Quai Antoine Ier in Monaco, as well as an artist residency at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in Stromboli.

In 2024, he held the solo exhibition Le Concile des Abysses at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of the Extra! festival and participated in projects at Ocean Space (Venice), Villa Médicis (Rome), Frac Franche-Comté, Gare Saint Sauveur (Lille), and an artist residency at Société des Apis in Grasse.

In 2023, he presented the solo exhibition Je suis un monstre marin at the Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart, a poetic immersion between metamorphosis and hybridization.

In 2022, he received the Italian Council prize from the Italian Ministry of Culture for the work SENTIERO, shown at the Gherdëina Biennale 8, Taxispalais (Innsbruck), IASPIS (Stockholm), Somalgors74 (Switzerland), and MAXXI L’Aquila.

Previous exhibitions include: MAXXI (Rome), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Serpentine Galleries (London), Castello di Rivoli, Spike Island (Bristol), SEMA – Seoul Museum of Art, Netwerk Aalst, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, South London Gallery, CCA Warsaw, Serralves (Porto), and CAC Vilnius.

His works are part of public collections such as Museo MAXXI (Rome), CNAP – National Center for Visual Arts (France), Frac Franche-Comté, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Rochechouart), Frac Méca (Bordeaux), and GAMeC (Bergamo).

Anna Chirescu is a dancer and choreographer, graduated in 2005 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She has collaborated with numerous choreographers and notably performed the repertoire of Merce Cunningham. In 2017, she co-founded the company Lava with visual artist Grégoire Schaller, developing projects at the intersection of dance and visual arts. In 2022, she created VACA, followed by her first solo, KATA, in 2025.

Her work explores the connections between body, memory, and politics through a multidisciplinary approach integrating dance, voice, narration, and visual devices. Viewing the body as a living archive, shaped by history and individual or collective narratives, she interrogates the objectification of bodies, tensions between the intimate and the collective, as well as personal mythologies.

Choir Festival curated by Riccardo Martinini

CorAle Femminile Aureliano, conducted by Piera Lanciani
Coro Giovanile Artipelago, conducted by Anna Tigli

No reservation required, subject to availability
5:00 PM and 6:00 PM
Strolling performance around the huts Campo and Pan-orama

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Choir Festival curated by Riccardo Martinini

Jubilus Ensemble, conducted by Roberto Manuel Zangari
Roma Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Federico Incitti
Fuori da Coro – Vocal group, conducted by Maria Teresa Viglione

No reservation required, subject to availability
6:30 PM, 7:30 PM, and 8:15 PM
Balthus Loggia

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Choir Festival conducted by Riccardo Martinini, grand finale dedicated to the Amwaj Youth Choir in Palestine
Coro Giovanile Artipelago
CorAle Femminile Aureliano
Jubilus Ensemble
Roma Vocal Ensemble
Fuori da Coro – Vocal group

No reservation required
9:15 PM (15 minutes)
Piazzale

CLIMA is a new institution dedicated to challenging and renovating narratives around climate and sustainability – across policy, business, culture and media.

 

Screenwriter of cinema (Roberto Faenza’s The Viceroys, Carlo Lizzani’s Hotel Meina) and fiction (among others Capri, Police District, Suor Bakhita), Filippo Gentili directed the film Sono viva. He has edited television programs (Words that remain with Stefano Accorsi) and theater shows (Winston Churchill with Giuseppe Battiston). Between 2021 and 2024 he was playwright of “La Pergola” in Florence. He currently works as an editor and screenwriter for Stand by me, where he edited the series Our general and Marconi for Rai 1. In 2024 he created Planetaria together with Stefano Accorsi, a cross-media project produced by Superhumans, to talk about climate change and sustainability by combining art and science.

Emanuele Coccia is a philosopher and senior lecturer at EHESS. He has been invited as a visiting professor and researcher by universities including Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia, and Harvard. He is the author of La Vie sensible, La Vie des plantes, Métamorphoses, Philosophie de la maison, and La Vie des formes. Philosophie du réenchantement.

He has contributed to the creation of animated videos such as Quercus (2020, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano), and The Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019, he participated in the exhibition Nous les Arbres, presented at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.

He also edited the catalogue for the XXIII Triennale of Architecture and Design in Milan, Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries.

Born in Fife, Scotland, as a child Clarissa relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark, whose cultural landscape has continued to fuel her creativity. Over many years she’s explored the sacred sites, mythology, and music of Nordic culture, finding enduring inspiration in the Celtic tradition. While she’s maintained an active role in the thriving local music scene, a global audience has awakened to her sound. She first gained international attention with Tech Duinn (2018), an hypnotic EP named after a spiritual gateway in Celtic myth. For her most recent album, The Voyager (2021), Clarissa physically walked the Scandinavian landscape, channelling melodies from ancient pre-Christian sites. She also developed an app (Vandringen) which allowed others to virtually join-in and musically respond to these sites. The album received global acclaim and was awarded the prestigious Nordic Music Prize. Both more intimate and cosmic in scope than its predecessors, World of Work (her debut album for Warp) draws inspiration from visionary literature, dreams, and meditative walks. While The Voyager explored the sacred history of the Nordic landscape, World of Work explores the metaphysical landscape of the soul. The listener is invited on an inner journey that is by turns hushed and ecstatic.

Working across fashion, contemporary art, and music, Crystallmess – aka Christelle Oyiri – is a multidisciplinary and multi-talented force to be reckoned with. The French-born Ivoirian and Guadeloupean producer and DJ brings a thoughtful, introspective edge to the club sound. She made her debut with the EP Mere Noises in 2018, which was full of choice sampling, touching melody, and regaling beats – its opening track title speaks to the buoyant relationship between liveliness and introspection that bursts in her music: “Just because it’s a funeral doesn’t mean we can’t rave.” Since this lauded debut, she has gone on to release a split EP on label PAN with Toxe and has become an NTS resident with her show Unleashed. Always in a process of evolving and honing her distinct sound, Crystallmess’s uncompromising DJ sets promise an unpredictable array of genres and sounds, ranging from trap and techno to footwork, R&B, and Jersey club.

Alain Damasio, three-time Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner, is a leading French science fiction writer with significant critical and popular success. He was first acclaimed for his novel La Horde du Contrevent (2004), translated into Italian, and for Les Furtifs, a politically charged fantasy novel in which he invents an animal species capable of evading human tracking.

A world-builder for video games, cinema, TV series, and theater, he often performs his own texts live in concert. In 2021, he created an experimental social, terrestrial, and enchanted zone (Zeste) in the Alps, where, through workshops and seminars, participants collectively explore our sensitive and artistic connections to the forces of life.

Smaïl Kanouté was born in 1986 in Paris, where he lives and works. He holds a master’s degree in graphic design from ENSAD (2012) and defines himself as a “choré-graphist” and self-taught dancer through his travels across Africa, North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Combining dance and visual arts, his choreography becomes a painting of moving patterns in space. A storyteller and gatherer of world histories, his work is nourished by diverse artistic and multicultural influences. Identity as a creation lies at the core of his practice. Through his art, Smaïl invites the audience to embark on a new journey of self-discovery, sharing his vision of beauty and humanity. In March 2022, he completed a one-month residency with critic and poet Chris Cyrille. In 2023, he undertook a residency at Villa Albertine to work with the Black Indians community of New Orleans.

Senny Camara, born in Dakar, grew up in Tattaguine, southern Senegal, raised by her grandmother in the pure animist traditions of the Sérère people. This family environment deeply immersed her early on in the profound musical roots of her country, especially with the Ndeup chants, a mystical rite practiced by the Lébou community in Senegal. She is one of the few female kora players worldwide, an instrument traditionally reserved for men, which she mastered at the Dakar Conservatory, where she also explored traditional instruments like the balafon, ngoni, and guitar. She settled in France in the 2000s, learned the harp, and discovered Celtic music at the Saint-Denis Conservatory. Her path crossed with virtuoso Mandingue musicians in exile and nomadic artists such as Fixi, the Argentinian Ignacio, Maria Gomez Lopez, and the French guitarist Thierry Fournel. After releasing her EP Boolo, Senny is currently preparing her first solo album.

Dramane Dembélé, known as Popimane, was born in 1982 in Côte d’Ivoire to parents from Burkina Faso and sent to school in Burkina Faso with his uncle. Coming from a family of Griots, the hereditary oral tradition bearers, he played in cabarets on the small tam-tam (doum-doum) and trained in music from a young age. In 2005, he met Sotigui Kouyaté, a key actor and griot of Peter Brook’s work, who became his mentor. Since then, he has composed music for dance and theater for international directors and choreographers. Inspired notably by Scottish flutist Ian Anderson, leader of the progressive rock band Jethro Tull, as well as artists like Magic Malik and Mamady Mansaré, he seeks to create new sounds on the traditional and pastoral three-hole diatonic Peul flute, bringing it into a contemporary universe while maintaining a strong identity. He developed a distinctive, highly rhythmic and percussive playing style, combining it with the traditional technique of singing into the instrument.

Sylvain Rabourdin cultivates an art of surprise and adventure, making his violin resonate freely between jazz, classical music, and traditional sounds. Born in 1988 in Narbonne, he began playing the violin at age five. With both academic and popular training, he alternated early on between conservatory studies and traditional dance halls in his native Occitanie. This dual culture of written and oral music deeply informs his creative approach. As an improviser, he is very active on the Parisian scene, collaborating with major artists such as Clara Ysé, Senny Camara, Lynn Adib, and Abdullah Miniawi. His passion for discovery and travel has taken him to Eastern Europe, Ireland, Cameroon, and Brazil, all of which have influenced his music. He composes for the trio Marsa, with Lina Belaid on cello and Wadie Naim on percussion, which will release its first EP in 2025. He also co-arranged the album Rio Abajo with Venezuelan singer Rebecca Roger Cruz, released in February 2025 on the Airfono label.

Pierre-Yves Macé is a composer. His work combines electroacoustic and instrumental music following a method inspired by musique concrète, using recorded sounds, documents, and archives as primary sources. He has released albums on labels such as Tzadik, Sub Rosa, and Brocoli. His music was the subject of a Portrait at the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Automne in Paris. He is a fellow at the Villa Médicis for the years 2024-2025.

Silvia Tarozzi is a violinist, composer, and improviser. The oral transmission of music and the form created through deep immersion in sound are central to her musical research, expressed through collaborations with composers such as Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Pascale Criton, Cassandra Miller, Martin Arnold, and Philip Corner. Her projects have been released by I Dischi di Angelica, Unseen Worlds, New World Records, and Potlatch. Her concerts have been recorded and broadcast by the BBC and France Musique.

Maroussia Rebecq is a fashion artist and pioneer of upcycling who has been creating living works for over twenty years, where clothing becomes a material for storytelling, transformation, and empowerment. As the founder of the brand Andrea Crews, she blends art, fashion, and ecology through participatory performances, alternative fashion shows, and site-specific installations.
Her work draws on the codes of ritual, social sculpture, and popular culture to propose sensitive forms of resistance and collective celebration.

Maroussia Rebecq presents her performance in collaboration with students from RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts, coming from the three programs: Photography and Audiovisual, Sustainable Fashion Design, and Fine Arts – Performance Art.

• PHOTOGRAPHY AND AUDIOVISUAL
  The Photography and Audiovisual course at RUFA trains professionals capable of combining creativity, technique, and a multidisciplinary vision, aiming to tackle visual overproduction by developing an open and contemporary perspective. Through a masterclass with Contrasto and a curriculum mixing reportage and artistic research, students develop a personal style. At the end of the three years, they are able to transform their ideas into effective and recognizable visual projects, ready to stand out on the international stage.
  Careers: photojournalist, fashion photographer, advertising photographer, director of photography, photo critic.
  Bachelor’s degree – 3 years, 180 ECTS.
• SUSTAINABLE FASHION DESIGN
  RUFA’s three-year Sustainable Fashion Design program is the first in Italy to combine integral ecology and creation through a transdisciplinary approach. The course trains sustainable fashion designers able to combine creativity, digital skills, and environmental and social awareness. Graduates can work as designers, material researchers, fashion graphic designers, or sustainability coordinators, either independently or within corporate teams.
  Bachelor’s degree – 3 years, 180 ECTS.
  Careers: circular design assistant, sustainable fashion designer, sustainability manager in fashion, product sustainability specialist, sustainable fashion marketing specialist, fashion graphic designer.
• VISUAL ARTS – PERFORMANCE ART
  RUFA’s Master’s in Visual Arts offers four tracks in English: Painting, Painting with a specialization in Performance Art, Sculpture, and Art Printmaking. The Performance Art specialization deepens the theory and practice of live art, focusing on the body, space, and time. Students develop a personal language by exploring themes such as identity and human experience. International masterclasses, interdisciplinary approaches, and experimentation train conscious artists able to thrive in the contemporary art system and the most dynamic creative contexts.
  Master’s degree – 2 years, 120 ECTS.
  Careers: cultural mediator, gallery owner, performer, cultural manager, curator, art printer.

After a first lap in 2018 – six titles in French and Spanish, including the magnetic “Le Monde s’est dédoublé “( the world has split) – Clara YSÉ steps forward into the spotlight, at full power, with Oceano Nox, a very audacious first album, written and composed by her, co-produced with Ambroise Willaume (Sage), mixed by Renaud Letang (Feist) and carried by numerous musicians, electronic textures and a choir in tune.

Since childhood, she has played and sung, a violin in her hands then educated in singing at eight years old, before tracing a parallel path towards writing and singing.
For a long time, Clara YSÉ let music run free, without capturing it in a studio, organizing parties that ended in musical improvisations, at dawn. The choirs of “Pyromanes” or “Souveraines” come from there, voices that have always accompanied her, and some of the musicians – duduk, brass or cello players – have also experienced these midnight sharings.

This first album is foremost one of a desirer, she says. She likes innovators, from Rosalia to Björk via Kendrick Lamar, singers who combine fragility and strength like Lole Montoya, Janis Joplin, Mercedes Sosa, Nina Hagen.

She confronts her voice with an innovative modernity, playing as much with her producers to mix synths with iridescent textures, electronic rhythms borrowed from reggaeton, as to appropriate certain codes of Greek rebetiko.

Clara YSÉ is, from the outset, a voice. A voice that stirs up sand, crosses fire, pierces the night, crosses continents of feelings as a sovereign.
Vulnerable but powerful, solid and yet elusive, Clara YSÉ enters French song with the brilliance of the great conquerors.

Clara YSÉ has published her first album Oceano Nox – (tôt Ou tard september 2023)

Clara YSÉ has published her first collection of poems Vivante (Editions Seghers May 2024)

Clara YSÉ has also published a first novel Mise à feu (Grasset 2021)

Valentina Camponeschi’s farm is located in Monte Compatri, a small village in the Castelli Romani area. It is a “diffuse” farm, spread out over about three hectares of land. Valentina first entered the world of agriculture through saffron — a gateway that has since expanded to many other crops: aromatic plants, edible flowers, cut flowers for decoration, wild herbs, honey, olive oil, and small fruits, especially blackberries and raspberries.

Over time, she developed a desire to process the fresh products into jams and fruit juices with no added sugar, as well as beverages made from wild herbs.