ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE “RADURA”

Radura is an active observatory on rural and mountainous territories in the Basilicata region of Italy. It explores the relationships between art, technology and ecology through site-specific, participatory and experimental practices. Radura emerges from a shared need to create a space of possibility within the dense and often inhospitable landscape of local cultural production. The collective understands itself as a “clearing”: a place that opens within complexity, where new forms of thought, collaboration and imagination can take root. At the core of Radura’s work is a strong connection to place and belonging. Its members engage with territories they inhabit, have returned to, or have left due to choice or necessity, recognizing in these movements a generative force. Through territorial research, artistic practice and the use of contemporary technologies, Radura aims to contribute to the construction of a new identity for the Lucanian territory, fostering networks between associations, institutions and grassroots initiatives, with particular attention to projects born from youth return and local investment. Radura operates as a contemporary clearing that remains deeply rooted in its local context while being shaped by distant encounters, mobility and exchange. Like a living ecosystem, it brings together native and introduced elements, allowing new hybrid forms to emerge. Working within a post-natural and interlocal perspective, Radura investigates how digital, artisanal and relational infrastructures can function as tools for listening to, representing and caring for landscapes. With its physical base in Contrada Torre, Latronico (PZ), on the banks of the Sinni river, in a former sock factory, Radura acts as a connective node between researchers, artists, citizens and institutions. Through this role, it contributes to redefining art as an ecological and social agent within processes of local development.