Transart 16

With various settings in Trentino and South Tyrol, the Transart Festival turns into an experimental playground where to explore different aspects of the contemporary art scene.

With the Transart Festival, South Tyrol turns into an experimental playground where to explore different languages of the contemporary art scene. This year’s edition focuses on nature as a resource to be preserved, the need for spirituality, the encounter without prejudices between cultures and the development of new formats where art, music, performance interact with each other.

Top: Transart meets Interzona with Hot Shotz, Powell & Lorenzo Senni, Samuel Kerridge, Not Waving, Davide Piras, Diggaz, Interzona Sound System al Transart 16. Above: Sleep Concert, twelve hours of music Kunsthalle di Lana. A project by Transart and creative collective Lottozero, curated by Gea Brown, Transart 2016, Trentino Alto Adige

The destinations include picturesque alpine landscapes, small castles by the lake, artist’s ateliers, museums, forests and gathering places. Among this year’s Transart participants we find John Luther Adams, Roman Signer, Chris Watson, Mashrou’ Leila e Omar Souleyman, Tomoko Mukaiyama e Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Rose Breuss, Jagoda Szmytka, PHACE ensemble, Claudio Rocchetti, Alberto Boccardi, Sadi, Gea Brown and Tomoko Sauvage.

Transart 2016, Haut, Rose Breuss, Jagoda Szmytka and the ensemble PHACE tranform sounds and images, exploring the physical aspect of sound

Some of the new proposals for this edition will host Luciano Chessa’s Dinner Cena Oltranzista at the Monticolo Castle, a Sleep Concert to accompany the rhythms of sleep and wakefulness, the rediscovery of the traditional Korean Gagok singing, artistic walks and a lot of sound experimentation.

John Luther Adams, artist and environmental activist at Transart with two epic suites <i>Inuksuit</i> and <i>Become Ocean</i>, Transart 16
Libanese band Mashrou’Leila for a concert at the industrial setting of Officine FS di Bolzano, together with the Sirian wedding singer Omar Souleyman
<i>Sleep Concert</i>, twelve hours of music Kunsthalle di Lana. A project by Transart and creative collective Lottozero, curated by Gea Brown, Transart 2016, Trentino Alto Adige
Alpe di Resciesa, background for the music composition <i>Inuksuit</i> by John Luther Adams, Transart Festival 2016, Trentino Alto Adige
Transart Festival 2016, Trentino Alto Adige
Laurie Anderson portrait, Transart 16, Trentino Alto Adige


until 25 September 2016
Transart 16
via Dante 28, Bolzano