RIDERS! is an itinerant performance on wheels, conceived by the trans-Mediterranean collective Corps Citoyen in collaboration with the community of Milanese riders. The event is an act of participatory art and advocacy that turns the critical mass into a device for the hyper-visualization of the exploitation and precarity experienced by food delivery couriers.
It’s an urban, political, and sonic journey through the streets of Milan, reclaiming space, voice, and dignity for those who resist between deliveries every day. The audience, equipped with headphones and smartphones, will follow the riders’ real routes, listening to their stories and questioning the rhythms and constraints of contemporary labor.
The route winds through the streets of Milan, converging at a shared and symbolic arrival point: Piazza Duomo. Although the experience concludes with a collective moment, it is also designed to be enjoyed individually.
Bio
Corps Citoyen is a living organism, a device in motion founded in Tunis in 2013 and now based in Milan. It practices art as a tool for political activation and collective desire, operating across public art, performance, and radical pedagogies. An Associate Artist at BASE Milano from 2022 to 2024, Corps Citoyen is also an Associate Artist of the European platform IN SITU.
Credits
Direction: Rabii Brahim, Anna Serlenga
Dramaturgy: Anna Serlenga
With: Souleymane Ba, Rabii Brahim, Abdoul Karimou Diallo, Zine Eddine Lachelak, Habib Ul Rehman, Muhammad Saquib Zia.
RIDERS! is a project funded by ActionAid International Italia E.T.S. and Fondazione Realizza il Cambiamento, as part of The CARE – Civil Actors for Rights and Empowerment program, co-funded by the European Union.
In collaboration with Milano Mediterranea and Meraki Desideri Culturali, and with the support of So.De – Social Delivery (an ethical and solidarity-based delivery service) and Sai Che Puoi?.
