CONTINUUM
ARTISTIC INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE NONLINEAR FABRIC OF TIME

CONTINUUM is a project conceived by NERO, international organization and publishing house founded in 2024 and focused on contemporary arts and culture, for the spaces of ARMANI / Silos: a public-facing, off-format cultural program that interweaves different media — sound, word, image — in an inquiry into the threshold between continuity and experimentation, where savoir-faire emerges as a creative force crossing time, genres, styles, and canons.
A series of musical performances, readings, talks, and screenings unfold over five episodes — a dialogue between practices that echo the persistence and transformation of the creative expression in resonance with the sartorial trace, both through and beyond time and language.

CONTINUUM will unfold monthly, in parallel with the exhibition “Armani Privé 2005–2025: Twenty Years of Haute Couture”, starting in September 2025.

Opening the first edition of Continuum is the duo of producers and composers Space Afrika, with the premiere of “Yobs“, an immersive audiovisual installation exploring urban solitude, silent power, and the meditative undulations of the unseen.
Echoing beyond their live performance, Space Afrika propose an interlacing A/V counterpart intended as a “non-performance” that offers parallel space for contemplation and disappearance.

The second chapter focuses on the spoken word, through a live reading by Heavy Traffic, the literary review founded by Patrick McGraw and Richard Turley for the publication of short stories described as “an IRL version of the infinite scroll.”
The performance brings from New York “a pulsing prose, unbound by form, yet incredibly deliberate and stylized,” where “every sentence lives a life of its own — a microcosm of meaning and sensation.”

The third episode returns to sound, this time through the savoir-faire of Carmen Villain, the Norwegian-Mexican multi-instrumentalist, performing a live set “made up of tapestries of field-recordings, woodwinds, samples and synths, culminating in her own distinctive, cosmic sound combining elements of fourth world, dub and ambient.”

This will be followed by an unprecedented collaboration between Nero and UBU, the largest online archive dedicated to sound, visual and concrete poetry, founded by Kenneth Goldsmith in 1996 and still freely accessible today.
Goldsmith himself will inaugurate a curated series of archival playlists, lined up by Katherine Korbjuhn, Bill Kouligas, and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi — a month-long screening program hosted in the Silos’ purpose-built projection capsule.

Lucinda Chua’s cello closes the season with a soundscape tailored through “voice, instrument, and a series of effects units.”The London-based artist explores her “multi-faceted identity, shaped by a Sino-Malaysian heritage and a musical education rooted in the Suzuki method,” in a solo show developed from the mood board of I Left The Earth — the track with which the composer signs the soundtrack of Black Mirror – Eulogy.