READY THOUGHT
Virtual and site-specific residency

With Nicolò Minisi
October 2025 – March 2026

An artist residency produced by Binaural Nodar and integrated in the creative activities of the Tramontana Network, a project co-financed by the Creative Europe program.

The project stems from an investigation into sound as a vehicle of memory and as a tool for connecting humans and landscape. The starting point is the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (Portugal), which preserves sound and audiovisual documents related to the mountainous territories of the Viseu Dão Lafões region.

Nicolò Minisi aims to create a site-specific sound artwork that reflects the theme of mountain landscapes through the concept of a digital afterlife: a space where the voice escapes time, continuing to live as an echo. The installation will be conceived as an acoustic memorial, placed on the heights, reintroducing collected sounds into the landscape: voices bouncing between peaks, fading away, returning. Memory becomes sound waves, in dialogue with space and its resonances.

The project reflects on the archive’s role as a living organism -not only a place of preservation but a narrative machine capable of restoring what is absent. Digitizing memory means nourishing it both technologically and physically: what was once a body becomes a trace, and what is a trace can return to presence.

The proposal is based on rethinking the archive: no longer a static container, but a voice in constant transformation. The prefix “Re” – Re-play, Re-post, Re-ady made – always evokes a return that is also a rebirth, a gesture looking back in order to move forward. The archive becomes Ready thought- thought ready to cross time.

The project celebrates oral memory, soundscapes, and the dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. Sound, as a tool for intergenerational transmission, here offers itself as a bridge between what was and what can happen in the future.

Biography:

Nicolò Minisi, born in Genoa in 2000 and now based in Milan, is an emerging Italian artist whose practice spans painting and visual arts. He earned both his BA and MA from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan, where he graduated with top honors. Minisi’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Italy, including the 2025 solo show “Tales from the Underground” in Lecce and notable group exhibitions such as “Recombinant Ecologies” at Torino’s Parco d’Arte Vivente and “Voicing the Archive” at Triennale Milano. His art explores themes resonant with contemporary ecological and urban concerns, often engaging with site-specific contexts and experimental curatorial projects.

Alongside his exhibitions, Minisi has participated in prestigious residency programs like Florìda in Genoa, deepening his engagement with collaborative and interdisciplinary art practices. His work is held in collections including Studio Florìda, Società Umanitaria, and PAV. Minisi has contributed to publications and critical dialogues within the art community, collaborating on projects with established curators and artists. His involvement in workshops and performances, such as those at the Venice Biennale and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, further highlights his dynamic role in Italy’s contemporary art scene.

Binaural Nodar is a cultural entity supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport | General-Directorate for the Arts.