The Turin festival returns across three venues in June and September with a live music programme, talks, and a sleeping concert.
ALMARE has shared the details for this year’s Spellbound Festival, which takes place in Turin across 27–28 June and 26–27 September. Events will be held at PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Orto Botanico, Imbarchino del Valentino and Magazzino sul Po.
At the heart of the evening on 27 June, Nkisi will present Desert Songs, a new overnight sleeping concert developed with Nyege Nyege. The work continues ideas introduced in her Venice Biennale Musica 2025 project Anomaly Index, drawing on reports of auditory hallucinations linked to sleep in desert environments. Audiences will be invited to stay overnight inside the park during the performance.
The evening will open with The Vestibule, a new multichannel improvisation by Rosso Polare, Giada Pignotti, HMOT and Dania, produced with Swiss residency space La Becque.
The June programme also includes readings from Haytham el-Wardany’s Book of Sleep, a nocturnal walk through the grounds of PAV, and a workshop by Altalena focused on lucid dreaming and polyphasic sleep.
On 28 June, the festival moves to the Arboretum of the Botanical Garden of Turin for talks and listening sessions with Nkisi, Luigi Monteanni and Stas Shärifullá. The weekend closes with a DJ set from Artetetra at Imbarchino del Valentino.
September’s event will bring additional live performances from artists including KMRU, Sealionwoman, Takkak Takkak and Pho Bho, alongside a multichannel installation developed with students from the Turin Conservatory.
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