Events

The past year has been significant for Rebibbia. In 2024, Pope Francis opened a Holy Door in the prison for the Jubilee, symbolically likening it to a basilica. A few months later, the Municipality of Rome proposed the creation of a new symbolic district encompassing the city’s prisons. At the heart of these gestures are the lives of the detainees—their stories, their perspectives on the neighborhood, the city, and the world, as seen from within the constraints of imprisonment. Since September, Hyperlocal has been working inside the prison, collecting stories and reflections directly from the inmates.

The final talk will take place in the Spazio Cuore at Triennale Milano, as a continuation of the public program hosted by the Milan institution since June. This time, the conversation will focus on the idea of restorative justice, on the centrality of direct storytelling and listening in shaping the social construct of the figure of the inmate, starting from the work carried out by Hyperlocal. Moderated by Isabella De Silvestro, with photographer Tano D’Amico (an icon of photography during the Years of Lead and a tireless documentarian of Rebibbia) and Emanuela Saita (professor and researcher at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore).

Throughout the duration of the Hyperlocal Magazine Rebibbia exhibition, displayed  in front of the Rebibbia subway station in Rome and inside the Penitentiary Complex, a public program of three conversations will take place between Rome and Milan, involving journalists, authors, artists, and scholars to discuss the lived experience of detention and the symbolic dimension of prisons.

This second conversation will consist of brief speed talks in which photographers, movie directors, and theater directors will reflect on the elusive power of images in depicting the lives and spaces of the prison, given that Rebibbia is a facility that has echoed widely and held significant weight within Italian culture. Moderated by the Hyperlocal Magazine editorial team, with Fabio Cavalli, Tano D’Amico (an icon of photography during the Years of Lead and a tireless documentarian of Rebibbia), Alain Parroni (movie director invited by Hyperlocal for a short film on Rebibbia), and Francesca Tricarico (founder of the Theatre Company of Rebibbia Female Complex).

Throughout the duration of the Hyperlocal Magazine Rebibbia exhibition, displayed  in front of the Rebibbia subway station in Rome and inside the Penitentiary Complex, a public program of three conversations will take place between Rome and Milan, involving journalists, authors, artists, and scholars to discuss the lived experience of detention and the symbolic dimension of prisons.

This first conversation will bring together authors accustomed to working with prisons, familiar with telling the stories of the lives spent within. Moderated by Eleonora Tundo (journalist and author of RAI, Italy’s national public broadcasting service) together with the Hyperlocal Magazine editorial team, writer and teacher Edoardo Albinati, and author Francesca D’Aloja.

Tracing Bandung’s punk and metal scenes as subcultural spaces where identity, politics, and community intersect, filmmaker Riar Rizaldi and music researcher Luigi Monteanni present Otonomi Feral and Geotrauma Timbres, two audio works esplorino ferality, geotrauma, and sonic ecologies of Bandung’s underground.

Rizaldi and Monteanni reflect on subcultures, politics, violence, and sound, tracing how music and art metabolize social upheaval, agrarian struggles, and extractivist transformations, opening a dialogue on the futures of community and refusal.

From autonomy and ferality to agrarian ties, these movements have embodied both violence and resistance. Their evolution—from keras music as revolutionary drive to today’s hybrid codes—offers a lens to rethink subcultures, geotrauma, and Indonesia’s cultural present.

The release of a brand-new program focused on Buahbatu: the cradle of metalheads and DIY underground communities in Bandung, Indonesia.

The Hyperlocal Magazine will be launched with an exhibition at ISBI – Indonesia Arts and Culture Institute. The event will feature a conversation moderated by Luigi Monteanni, joined by Kimung—the most eminent local historian and archivist of the underground scene—and Teguh Permana of Tarawangsawelas, an experimental sound project that explores Tarawangsa, a unique genre featuring a horizontal harp and a vertical violin, rooted in the agrarian rituals of the Sundanese highlands.

In the eventing, at Fragment, Hyperlocal Club will host performances by Ensemble Tikoro, the growl choir founded by the composer and music theorist Robi Rusdiana, DJ, and producer Xin Lie with his blending of punk roots, Sundanese influences, and club culture, and the noise community Para Studio.

Emerging from a diasporic movement in the early 1990s, La Comunidad is the largest Dominican community in Europe, a scene rooted in Umberto I, a neighbourhood in La Spezia. The Domincan scene has developed a distinctly Italian take on dembow, featuring the iconic Dominican car sound system culture known as kitipó—a street-born ritual where cars face off in booming sonic battles, driven by the unmistakable rhythm of dembow: boom-ch-boom-chick.

The Alté movement is a network of creatives united by a shared desire for radical self-expression, manifested through music, fashion, and visual culture. Rejecting the traditional codes of Nigerian identity, Alté is inherently queer and challenges mainstream homophobia and ageism, while highlighting class divisions between the global elite and the young working population of Lagos. Blending Nollywood aesthetics with manga influences, R&B, Afrobeat, rap, and experimental sounds, Nigeria’s alternative scene has found its first home in the neighborhood of Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Italian classical music industry undoubtedly began in the center of Milan, where a unique network of artists, institutions, and publishers relies on centuries of musical history. From the timeless operas of Giuseppe Verdi to the birth of electronic music with the Futurist manifesto The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo, and the legendary Studio di Fonologia Musicale, to world-renowned institutions like Teatro alla Scala, the center of Milan holds the cultural foundations that are as rare—if not unique—as in only a few other cities on our continent.

Hyperlocal Club Centro (Milan) is co-curated with Francesco Fusaro.

Under what conditions is music a weapon of opposition?
The first event of the fourth season of Hyperlocal Club – part of Triennale Summer events program – features the deafening volumes of the underground scene of Buahbatu, a neighborhood in Bandung: a the city that challenged the Western gaze in the post-colonial era and gave birth to the first metal scene and DIY community in the Indonesian archipelago.

Hyperlocal Club Buahbatu is co-curated with Luigi Monteanni (Artetetra) and supported by Chase and LYL Radio.