This year we propose a cultural and curatorial project for an iconic and historic venue in Milan in November 2026.

It builds on the experience of NOIS//E 2025 – Nature Art Sound, an international festival held in Calabria that brought together more than 50 artists from 19 countries through experimental music, video art, immersive installations, talks, and site-specific interventions in dialogue with historic architecture, natural landscapes, and marginal or forgotten places.

The 2026 edition focuses on artistic practices that restore value to presence, physicality, listening, materiality, and situated experience in a cultural context increasingly shaped by automation, synthetic production, and immaterial circulation of content. Rather than rejecting technology, the project aims to reposition it critically within embodied, spatial, and relational artistic experiences.

The programme is conceived as a flexible interdisciplinary platform, to be developed over one or more days. It may include live performances, audiovisual screenings, listening rooms, installations, immersive or VR experiences, artist talks, and public discussions. The format is modular and adaptable to the hosting venue, with low-impact, reversible technical solutions designed to respect the architectural and historical character of the space.

The main venue venue as the iconic Fondazione Sozzani and an historical one Villa Litta are central to the project because it is not treated as a neutral container, but as an active part of the artistic experience. Its memory, atmosphere, symbolic layers, and spatial qualities contribute directly to the audience’s perception and engagement. In this sense, the project continues the curatorial approach developed in NOIS//E 2025, where contemporary artistic practices entered into dialogue with convents, palaces, rural landscapes, and places of strong territorial identity.

NOIS//E 2026 addresses a broad audience, including people interested in contemporary music and art, students, young artists, cultural professionals, local communities, and regular visitors to the hosting venue. The aim is not to create a closed specialist event, but an accessible cultural experience for a wider public.

NOIS//E 2026 represents a coherent evolution of the path initiated in 2025: an interdisciplinary project bringing together sound, image, installation, performance, and critical reflection, with a strong focus on listening, place identity, public presence, and the relationship between contemporary art and historically significant spaces.