Babau brings VANDALI to life with a live performance that blends electronic composition, improvisation, and sonic narration in constant evolution—a dialogue between installation, space, and audience. Throughout the week, the installation will remain active in the iconic Barrio’s square, thanks to an audio device embedded in one of the sound sculptures, programmed by Studiolatte and Babau. Visitors are free to activate and play with the installation at any time during the exhibition.
Not just a single performer, but a polyphonic chorus narrating space, time, and urban life. VANDALI challenges the notion of artistic performance as an absolute, authorial act, opening up to a more fluid and collective experience. The project draws inspiration from the idea of a metaphorical “vandalization” of public space—a symbolic gesture that disrupts the apparent silence of a place, translating it into a new sonic dimension. Here, sound becomes a tool of creative rebellion, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.
This event is part of Performing Architecture ↗, a city-wide festival running from April 3–13 across five neighborhoods in Milan’s south side, tracing a path between architecture and performing arts. Five districts, five visions—a laboratory of experimentation where architecture becomes body, sound, ritual, and refuge. A collective exercise in rethinking urban living, turning spaces into places of encounter, gesture, and listening.
Performing Architecture is a project born from the collaboration between BASE Milano and DOPO? and is one of the winning projects of the Festival Architettura, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to support and enhance contemporary architecture in Italy.