Uncoded Entities is the title of the 65th Edition of the Premio Campigna, a project promoted by the Municipality of Santa Sofia and curated by Lara Gaeta, with the participation of artists Cuoghi Corsello, Aja Ireland and Joey Holder, and ToffoloMuzik. The event is organized in collaboration with the Proloco of Santa Sofia, Cooperativa Atlantide, the Casentinesi Forests National Park, Monte Falterona and Campigna, and the association Rumors. Project coordination is led by Institution – an internationally oriented startup based in Santa Sofia, founded with the aim of researching, developing, and promoting innovative systems for the enjoyment of art and culture. The event is open to the public and free of charge, with no reservation required.

This edition of the Premio Campigna is part of the sustainability pathway initiated with the International Forum on the Sustainability of Cultural Institutions held at the end of September, during which dozens of international professionals from the cultural and artistic sectors met—both online and in person—to redefine the concept of sustainability in its broadest sense, from environmental sustainability to economic and social inclusivity. The forum explored new practices of sharing and collaboration, comparing ideas and envisioning resilient and radical actions. For the Premio Campigna, the national and international artists involved offer original perspectives on the theme of sustainability through installations, interventions, and performances in which visual impact and sound components intertwine with equal intensity and communicative power.

The artists are invited to engage in dialogue with the natural and landscape context of the village from a perspective that encourages them to move beyond any social category or convention, giving rise to hybrid bodies and forms—human, animal, vegetal, and even alien—also created through the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Uncoded Entities unfolds through these multiple viewpoints and without predefined codes, making space for a non-conventional and non-canonical universe: an idea of beauty, body, and gender that transcends the boundaries of human imagination. The installations and performances by the invited artists inhabit the space as true “entities,” presences that are not fully decipherable, imbued with a sense of the magical, the monstrous, and the surreal.
The aim is to activate some of Santa Sofia’s iconic sites dedicated to culture and art, creating an organic itinerary that reflects on the identity of these spaces, which carry profound meanings and stories deeply rooted in time and in the collective memory of the village’s inhabitants.

At the Sala Milleluci—a historic Romagnolo dance hall and concert venue recently renovated and ready to be returned to the community—the artistic duo Cuoghi Corsello presents Selettore n. 8, a work from 1999 reactivated for this space. The piece consists of six drop chandeliers whose light is activated in a circular motion, following internal and external sound impulses. The chandeliers’ light, meditative and spiritual, permeates the interior architecture with intermittent pulsations that create an almost magical atmosphere. The work is activated by the artists through a vocal performance interacting with electronic sounds generated by the Pure Data software. Selettore n. 8 is donated by collector Vezio Tomasinelli and becomes part of the permanent collection of the Santa Sofia Sculpture Park.

The Teatro Mentore is another focal point of the Uncoded Entities route. Here, British sound and performance artist Aja Ireland performs together with British visual artist Joey Holder, who curates the design and visual aspects of the work. Together they present Moult Mouth, an original performance reflecting on the power of the female body in the present through an immersive installation composed of light effects, video projections, psychedelic visuals, electronic sounds, and techno music.
Aja Ireland occupies the stage with vital and overwhelming energy, releasing impulses that embody an atypical femininity—at times monstrous and queer—that eludes any possible definition. The images created by Joey Holder and projected as a backdrop to Aja Ireland’s performance draw inspiration from speculative biology and from forms of life yet unknown: future, possible, and alien ecosystems.

The third key venue of the 2025 edition of the Premio Campigna is the Vero Stoppioni Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, a more contemplative space where ideas and projects take shape and take root. On the gallery walls are presented, on one side, works by the duo Cuoghi Corsello from the Sintografie series—digitally generated images created synthetically through the use of artificial intelligence—and, on the other, selected works by Aja Ireland and Joey Holder addressing themes of bodily transformation and hybridization, in full continuity with the works presented in the two previous contexts.
Here, properly “trained” artificial intelligence gives rise to new scenarios that stimulate the imagination. The exhibition space also encourages dialogue between artists and the public, allowing thoughts and reflections to settle and fostering the collective development of new perspectives and visions on the relationship between human beings and nature.

The 65th edition of the Premio Campigna concludes with a musical performance by Alessandro Zoffoli, aka ToffoloMuzik—a musician and producer from Cesena who travels the world recording and archiving sounds from different cultural and geographical contexts. His research weaves together electronic music and ethnic influences, creating original soundscapes. The musical performance is curated by Rumors.