The Aracne Project features the artistic project of Priss Niinikoski, an artist-in-residence at Villa Filanda Antonini, which is home to an Artist Residency Program supported by Arper Feltrin Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is encouraging the dialogue between contemporary art, design, and architecture.
During the year, the Villa, located in Villorba close to the city of Treviso (Italy), hosts resident exhibitions, workshops, and cultural events open to the community. VFA, built in 1870, was the site of the local silk processing factory. 
The spaces were studied and designed in collaboration with Korpijarvi Design, with the aim of giving the areas a new purpose. This resulted in a unique and refreshed interior design, suitable for a new artist residency.
On Saturday, November 9, Villa Filanda Antonini doubles up with an art exhibition and live performance for the event that brings to a conclusion the fall season full of projects and collaborations.
PROGRAM
3 p.m. – Gates open
FINAL SHOW: DAVIDE RONCO, PRISS NIINIKOSKI, ZHIYU XIAO
Discover the artwork created by the resident artists, presented in an interdisciplinary journey combining different artistic languages. Each artpiece is an element of a multifaceted narrative that elaborates the notions of landscape and belong-ing to place, showing its material, intangible, cultural as well as social specificities.
5 p.m.- 6 p.m.
PERFORMANCE BY FREDDIE MURPHY
Composer and musician Freddie Murphy will explore weeping and breathing as sounds that allow mourning to become a collective act, through his performance The Night shows no Dawn.
6 p.m.-7 p.m.
REFRESHMENT
A time of togetherness to end an afternoon of artistic explorations.
Priss Niinikoski (b.1997) is a Finnish-French artist working with textiles beyond soft surfaces. She studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and sculpture at the University of Arts Helsinki and has been recognised in both fields. She was a finalist in the 37th edition of the International Hyères Festival for Fashion, Photography, and Accessories (France, 2022). In 2024, her thesis project, Sonic mediations, was awarded the first-ever Johanna Ehrnrooth Prize by the University of Arts Foundation.
Exploring the intersections of computational thinking both in textiles and electronics, Niinikoski addresses the element of ‘risk’ when operating with tools and systems. Translating her research into spatial textile works and apparatuses, she explores how frictions and traces act as forms of communication. Actively combining textiles with sonic and digital materialities, she builds on coding interactive environments and electronic textile interfaces. Her ongoing research focuses on communication, acoustics, and the interplay between digital and analogue systems, investigating how uncertainties and risks disorientate systems to new patterns and expressions.
www.prissniinikoski.com
Automata is a sound installation that senses and responds to changes in its acoustic environment. Through its organic and mechanical beings, it raises questions about consciousness and autonomy. Positioned between the natural and the artificial, functioning autonomously yet pre-conditioned, the installation invites to reconsider what we define as “natural” in a world shaped by human intervention. At what point does a thing become artificial? Both listening and reacting, these life-like vessels operate within the mechanistic networks of both flora and fauna.