News
16-11-2021
2021 Artists in residence: NOVEMBER
Momo, Stefano Conti, Sean Dahlman, Ellie MacBride
In November, the orange harvest begins in Milis and will continue until May. It is the most important item in the economy of this small village.
November is also the last month of this first 2021 edition of the Nocefresca artistic residency program: six beautiful months of work with Milis's community and artists from all over the world. An intense year, full of emotions, phantasmagoric at times, we are pleased to celebrate all together on Sunday, November 28th during the final Open Studios session.
There are 4 artists in November: Momo, a fashion designer based in the New York Metropolitan Area we already knew last October; Stefano Conti, an Italian visual artist based in Sweden; Sean Dahlman, a composer, video artist, and botanist from Idaho and Ellie MacBride, playwright and producer from San Francisco, USA.
Stefano Conti was born in Treviglio in 1994. After a BFA in Photography from LABA (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti), Brescia, he decides to move to Gothenburg, Sweden, to continue studying and working as an artist.
His research intertwines photographic and sculptural practice to explore and question limits of the photographic space. Many of his projects focus on the ancient past, on objects and architectures whose history is not totally known. Stefano tries to observe and listen to the objects, imagines what they have to tell us, plays to fill the information gaps of a discipline as recent as archeology.
His works have been exhibited in Italy at the Nocivelli Award (2020), at the SIFEST OFF in Savignano (2019), at the Milan Triennale (2016) and at the 5th Biennial of Young Italian Photographers in Bibbiena (2016).
He collaborates with the artist Emma Sandström. They created the artistic duo Emma and Conti, whose works are now exhibited in the Museum of World Cultures in Genova (IT) and shown in the Konstepidemin gallery in Gothenburg in September 2021.
During his residency with nocefresca, Stefano is carrying out a research on nuragic architecture. Exploring theories, questions and academic and non-academic interpretations existing on these megalithic structures, he wants to bring his personal narrative into an editorial project.
More on his website: https://www.stefanoconti.info
Sean Dahlman is a composer, video artist, and botanist from Boise, Idaho, USA. He started his artist career composing for silent movies and performing in local indie bands. Today he plays the piano and synthesizers in a band called St. Terrible.
He is recently inspired to expand his artistic practice with video: moving from musical performance and orchestration into the visual arts, he is exploring a dialogue between sound and image through experimental video. The results are abstract images and ultra slow motion visuals; the beginning of a creative journey, a path Sean purposefully avoids defining or directing in order to allow projects to manifest on their own and to let go of tangible meaning.
Originally from the desert area of Idaho, Sean has always been attracted to the aquatic element that constantly appears in his works through rain, the course of a river, the ocean...
During his stay in Nocefresca, Sean plans to combine his botanical and artistic interests, using slow motion videography to create portraits of plant life in Sardinia in relationship with the aquatic element.
Link to his band's website: https://www.stterrible.com/about
Ellie MacBride is a San Francisco-based playwright, on a mission to make the world a little bit cozier. She builds community, writes and produces plays and shorts, and designs experiences for people and organizations who share her belief that artists should get paid for the value they give to the world.
Moving to San Francisco at the age of 19 with the desire to literally immerse herself into the city life and find her own dimension, Ellie began her career as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine “Forum”, City College of San Francisco.
In 2012, with a small group of friends, Ellie put together a plan to start an international living community. Agape is a cohousing experiment that has provided a warm and welcoming space centered around the idea of unconditional love (Agápē) for friends, family, and strangers. Residents include artists, entrepreneurs, technologists, teachers, designers, community builders, musicians.
Her work, which often blends immersive theatre with taboo themes such as suicide, gender noncomformity, alternative relationships, and invisible illness, is meant to be a springboard for discussing difficult topics, while also providing a safe space for more vulnerable readers, viewers, and participants to find a sense of purpose and belonging.
After the recent death of her younger brother, Billy, she hopes to use her time at Nocefresca writing and performing ironic stories around the topics of grief and loss.
This is her website: http://www.elliemacbride.com
Momo is a fashion designer based in the New York Metropolitan Area, Usa. They are the founder of the brand Momo Fashions: a non-binary, independent slow fashion brand whose mission is to empower people, merge fine art & fashion and produce a distinguished streetwear & evening wear.
Based on techniques studied at Massart, Oscar de la Renta and Diane Von Furstenberg, Momo Fashion values fine craftsmanship and creating ethically, always honoring mother nature. Momo came to Sardinia to be immersed in the island's beauty, start a new chapter, new collection, build relationships, strengthen roots with nature, and find space to refine her craft.
She hopes to create an entire Sardinian-inspired collection while in Milis and she has already created some pieces, related to the sea, the waves and the concept of freedom and identity in motion.
Here is her brand official website: https://www.momofashions.art/
November is also the last month of this first 2021 edition of the Nocefresca artistic residency program: six beautiful months of work with Milis's community and artists from all over the world. An intense year, full of emotions, phantasmagoric at times, we are pleased to celebrate all together on Sunday, November 28th during the final Open Studios session.
There are 4 artists in November: Momo, a fashion designer based in the New York Metropolitan Area we already knew last October; Stefano Conti, an Italian visual artist based in Sweden; Sean Dahlman, a composer, video artist, and botanist from Idaho and Ellie MacBride, playwright and producer from San Francisco, USA.
Stefano Conti: archeology and contemporary languages
Stefano Conti was born in Treviglio in 1994. After a BFA in Photography from LABA (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti), Brescia, he decides to move to Gothenburg, Sweden, to continue studying and working as an artist.
His research intertwines photographic and sculptural practice to explore and question limits of the photographic space. Many of his projects focus on the ancient past, on objects and architectures whose history is not totally known. Stefano tries to observe and listen to the objects, imagines what they have to tell us, plays to fill the information gaps of a discipline as recent as archeology.
His works have been exhibited in Italy at the Nocivelli Award (2020), at the SIFEST OFF in Savignano (2019), at the Milan Triennale (2016) and at the 5th Biennial of Young Italian Photographers in Bibbiena (2016).
He collaborates with the artist Emma Sandström. They created the artistic duo Emma and Conti, whose works are now exhibited in the Museum of World Cultures in Genova (IT) and shown in the Konstepidemin gallery in Gothenburg in September 2021.
During his residency with nocefresca, Stefano is carrying out a research on nuragic architecture. Exploring theories, questions and academic and non-academic interpretations existing on these megalithic structures, he wants to bring his personal narrative into an editorial project.
More on his website: https://www.stefanoconti.info
Sean Dahlman: water from the desert
Credits Photo 1: Back Art
Sean Dahlman is a composer, video artist, and botanist from Boise, Idaho, USA. He started his artist career composing for silent movies and performing in local indie bands. Today he plays the piano and synthesizers in a band called St. Terrible.
He is recently inspired to expand his artistic practice with video: moving from musical performance and orchestration into the visual arts, he is exploring a dialogue between sound and image through experimental video. The results are abstract images and ultra slow motion visuals; the beginning of a creative journey, a path Sean purposefully avoids defining or directing in order to allow projects to manifest on their own and to let go of tangible meaning.
Originally from the desert area of Idaho, Sean has always been attracted to the aquatic element that constantly appears in his works through rain, the course of a river, the ocean...
During his stay in Nocefresca, Sean plans to combine his botanical and artistic interests, using slow motion videography to create portraits of plant life in Sardinia in relationship with the aquatic element.
Link to his band's website: https://www.stterrible.com/about
Ellie Mac Bride: immersive theatre and community
Ellie MacBride is a San Francisco-based playwright, on a mission to make the world a little bit cozier. She builds community, writes and produces plays and shorts, and designs experiences for people and organizations who share her belief that artists should get paid for the value they give to the world.
Moving to San Francisco at the age of 19 with the desire to literally immerse herself into the city life and find her own dimension, Ellie began her career as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine “Forum”, City College of San Francisco.
In 2012, with a small group of friends, Ellie put together a plan to start an international living community. Agape is a cohousing experiment that has provided a warm and welcoming space centered around the idea of unconditional love (Agápē) for friends, family, and strangers. Residents include artists, entrepreneurs, technologists, teachers, designers, community builders, musicians.
Her work, which often blends immersive theatre with taboo themes such as suicide, gender noncomformity, alternative relationships, and invisible illness, is meant to be a springboard for discussing difficult topics, while also providing a safe space for more vulnerable readers, viewers, and participants to find a sense of purpose and belonging.
After the recent death of her younger brother, Billy, she hopes to use her time at Nocefresca writing and performing ironic stories around the topics of grief and loss.
This is her website: http://www.elliemacbride.com
Momo: Ethical fashion
Momo is a fashion designer based in the New York Metropolitan Area, Usa. They are the founder of the brand Momo Fashions: a non-binary, independent slow fashion brand whose mission is to empower people, merge fine art & fashion and produce a distinguished streetwear & evening wear.
Based on techniques studied at Massart, Oscar de la Renta and Diane Von Furstenberg, Momo Fashion values fine craftsmanship and creating ethically, always honoring mother nature. Momo came to Sardinia to be immersed in the island's beauty, start a new chapter, new collection, build relationships, strengthen roots with nature, and find space to refine her craft.
She hopes to create an entire Sardinian-inspired collection while in Milis and she has already created some pieces, related to the sea, the waves and the concept of freedom and identity in motion.
Here is her brand official website: https://www.momofashions.art/
