Conference
In reciproca attesa
November 29 2025
As part of the festival In reciproca attesa, organized in collaboration with UBI Unione Buddhista Italiana, we present a conference dedicated to the theme of listening, exploring artistic research, contemplative traditions, theoretical reflection, and political action. Spiritual traditions have formalized, over millennia, a series of techniques - meditation, spiritual exercises, retreats, ritual dances, and music - aimed at connecting deeply with oneself and the world. The event invites us to consider the sonic arts - and, by extension, art itself - as spaces to “inhabit listening,” as an autonomous aesthetic dimension that fosters attentive experiences in a universe of perceptual dispersion. The conference sessions will be opened by a live performance from Franco-American composer and clarinetist Carol Robinson, and French composer and saxophonist Bertrand Gauguet.
Program
11.00 pm – 1.30 pm
With
Brandon LaBelle, artist, educator, and sound theorist; Filippo Lunardo, dharma teacher and researcher at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO), Sapienza University of Rome; Lino Capra Vaccina, musician and composer, Gino Dal Soler, music critic; Enrico Malatesta, musician, educator, and researcher
3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
With
Massimo Bartolini and Luca Cerizza, artist and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, for which the documentary Massimo Bartolini. Due qui / To Hear will be screened in Milan for the first time; Jan St. Werner, artist, composer, and professor of electronic music; Chiara Mascarello, researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and co-director of the UBI Unione Buddhista Italiana Study Center; Francesco Tormen, co-director of the UBI Study Center and scientific coordinator of the Master in Contemplative Studies (University of Padua); Diana Lola Posani, sound artist and deep listening facilitator; Elena Biserna, art historian and curator; Alessandro Bosetti, composer and sound artist
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Calendar
Saturday, November 29 2025, 11.00am
Saturday, November 29 2025, 7.30pm
Credits
In collaborazione con with: UBI Unione Buddhista Italiana
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Screening
Massimo Bartolini
Due qui / To Hear
We present, in a Milan premiere, the screening of the documentary Massimo Bartolini. Due qui / To Hear (2025) by Matteo Frittelli. Produced on the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the film offers an intimate look at Massimo Bartolini’s project for the Italian Pavilion 2024.
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