From November 27th to 29th 2026, Research Camping returns for its fifth edition, transforming the spaces of Lavanderia a Vapore aisle, from the foyer to the theater, into hybrid spaces between fiction and reality, serving as devices for the exchange and dissemination of artistic research processes.
WHAT IS RESEARCH CAMPING
During Research Camping, research moves from an intimate, closed-door space to an imaginative public square for new politics – a middle ground hosting alternative postures, thoughts, and imaginaries that generate shifts in perspective. The Camping not only hosts research but constitutes a form of research in itself, oriented towards imagining social and political alternatives, new ways of being together, and modes of existence, thanks to the activating potential that artistic practices unfold and awaken.
What happens to research when it goes public, and what exchanges and benefits does it draw from this? What is the public role of research? In a world increasingly seeking other possible horizons, can research act upon those who encounter it, enabling new visions alongside plastic and imaginative capacities?
In a time obsessed with the shimmer of the new – and not always innovative – product, coupled with rapid planned obsolescence, research offers space for unexpected responses that often layer and revitalize materials and memories through circular, associative, and unpredictable logics. How does research observe and welcome transformation? How can it allow us to experience and imagine transitions of state, in both a physical and political sense? Through the public sharing of individual practices, research spills over and becomes choral, giving life to landscapes that are both visionary and experiential, opening up an uncommon shared space.
SHIFTING BODIES
How does our way of being together change when we lose certain reference points?
How do we stand on the threshold of a space-time?
What ignites in the interstices?
What happens to bodies when they let go of the need to define everything?
What do we see when the light changes? And how?
What torsions and tensions manifest in an ever-changing body?
Research Camping 2026 explores the transition of state as a bodily and spatio-temporal condition. By challenging sharp focus and the linear principle of cause and effect, we disrupt worlds and celebrate smoky, liminal, and blurred atmospheres.
Shifting bodies welcomes transformation and transition as a perpetual state, rather than an intermediate passage towards a reassuring destination.
We explore the threshold and the liminal state to open portals into a new morphology of matter: fluid, broken, vulnerable. Liminal temporalities, sunsets, and frosts that blur past and present in an atmospheric vibration. Thresholds of transformation where bodies sublimate into new forms or seep beyond their own margins. From molecular excitations that crack given bonds to boilings that configure unexpected relationships.
Research Camping is a changing world in which bodies are allowed to experiment with discomposed postures, tensions and torsions that converge in a field of possibility. In a shifting, smoky condition, gaze turns upward or towards other directions. Orientation breaks open toward vast horizons, towards places that allow potential to explode in unexpected directions and new articulations.
If we consider the condition of transition as a perpetual state, what sensory, critical and physical reconfigurations become possible? What new forms can be welcomed?
The environments of this edition embodying these dynamics are the parking lot and the observatory: thresholds that inform bodies and postures, inviting us to rethink how to situate ourselves in space and share practices and materials within the Camping’s choral dimension. Through the sharing of research practices and materials, these environments will be activated by the temporary community of artist-researchers, participants, and visitors inhabiting them.
