9 OCT –– 22 NOV 2025
FAROUT Live Arts Festival
Making Kin
WELCOME TO FAROUT 2025
From October 9 to November 22, a month and a half of performances, exhibitions, and talks: FAROUT transforms the stage into an affective ecosystem of sounds, bodies, and thoughts inhabiting BASE and the city.
The theme of this edition is Making Kin: a call to weave new relationships, to care for one another, to break the logic of isolation, to rewrite “us.”
A poetic gesture, utopian in the most concrete sense: inventing livable practices for unlivable times.
FEATURING
Alos –– Annamaria Ajmone & Laura Agnusdei –– Diana Anselmo –– Basel Zaraa –– Brigitta Muntendorf –– Cardellini ◇ Gonzalez, in collaboration with Colectivo utópico –– Collettivo Amigdala –– DOM– ( Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna ) –– Industria Indipendente (Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri) –– Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin –– gruppo nanou –– Katatonic Silentio –– Laila Tafur –– Sterud / Kongsness –– Mette Ingvarsten –– Olimpia Fortuni –– OvO (Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella) –– Rafael Candela –– Romare & Enea Pascal (Ivreatronic) / Le Cannibale –– Sara Leghissa & TaquitoJocoque –– Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo
Upcoming events
Click on the event that interests you to learn more.
RIDERS! – Corps Citoyen
An urban, political, and sonic journey through the streets of Milan that reclaims space, voice, and dignity for those who resist daily, balancing precariously between deliveries.
MAJA Y BASTARDA – Laila Tafur
From tablao to theatre, cave to cabaret, guild to catwalk—MAJA Y BASTARDA is a dance that resists purity.
Coser y Contar – Laila Tafur
To sew and to tell: hand-stitching a popular grammar ready to travel from village to city, museum to tablao, commerce to passion, market to runway, studio to party.
Ritual III: WHISPER – ALOS
A collective ritual of sound, body, and transformation, where the voice becomes breath, play, and wild power.
DAMMI I BRIVIDI MA NON PER LA PAURA – Industria Indipendente
Industria Indipendente continues its experimentation with expanded writing, translating these questions and possibilities into a dramaturgy composed of linguistic, sonic, and visual body.
Serenata Lesbica – Sara Leghissa & Taquitojocoque
Fragments of Mexican scores—both popular and contemporary—are recomposed to give voice to a hidden desire. The transformation is radical: the text becomes an echo that encourages lesbianism and political visibility, recalling the strength of bodies' presence in a romantic and collective dimension.
KIN – Collettivo Amigdala
KIN is a performance in the form of an open assembly. A temporary community where each woman’s voice intertwines with the others, weaving a sonic and political fabric that never repeats itself.
FAROUT LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 2025 /
IN COLLISION WITH
17 –– 22 NOV
This year, FAROUT collides with Linecheck Music Meeting & Festival.
Cross-pollinations between sound and performance bring two complementary worlds into resonance: some of the shows in this edition of Linecheck, A Beautiful Presence, are co-produced by FAROUT, building a bridge between sound and the performing arts. Among the artists: Olimpia Fortuni + Katatonic Silentio, gruppo nanou and OvO, Annamaria Ajmone and Laura Agnusdei.
The Meeting and Conference programme of Linecheck will also be co-curated with BASE and FAROUT, featuring special events exploring the relationship between sound and performance—enriching the audience’s experience and fostering dialogue across diverse creative communities, beyond disciplines.
Linecheck is an international festival and music meeting exploring contemporary languages of music and performing arts, through a multi-centred ecosystem connecting Milano and Bologna.
In collision with Linecheck:
Canto Primo – gruppo nanou & OvO
Beyond the limits of perception, between reality and science fiction, in a visual and physical landscape exploding with infernal and dreamlike visions.
a beautiful presence w/ Niño de Elche + Ernesto Artillo: INVESTITO
This special event brings together the Spanish icon of “ex-flamenco,” Niño de Elche, and interdisciplinary artist Ernesto Artillo: INVESTITO. Their performance is a fusion of voice, image, and ritual that pushes the boundaries of tradition in an act of total transformation.
a beautiful presence w/ Falegnameria Marri
Falegnameria Marri, the independent nine-member collective from Perugia, whose sound and DIY spirit transform music into a powerful vehicle for community and reinvention.
BLEAH!!! – Annamaria Ajmone, Laura Agnusdei
What does dance sound like? How does music dance? A show where boundaries dissolve and roles are reversed.
X /per/ – Olimpia Fortuni & Katatonic Silentio
Inspired by shamanic practices and the symbols of Artemis, the Moon, and the cardinal points, Olimpia Fortuni and Katatonic Silentio turn the stage into a space of connection—with oneself, with nature, with the other.
RESILENCE /
FAROUT OPENING
9 OCT STARTING H6:30PM
FAROUT opening: COSMIC PRELUDE
Cosmic Prelude is the opening night of FAROUT 2025: a cosmic alignment that launches a festival of more than 50 performances, exhibitions, and installations, setting the stage for its most visionary trajectories. Celebrate the arrival of FAROUT with the opening of the exhibition ReSilence. And then, dance to the DJ set by Tribadelica and experience the national première of FORCE IS PRESENT by German composer Brigitta Muntendorf.
RESILENCE /
FAROUT OPENING PERFORMANCE
FORCE IS PRESENT –– National première
by Brigitta Muntendorf
German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf inaugurates ReSilence with the national première of FORCE IS PRESENT at FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2025—an audiovisual experiment where sound is generated solely through the force of movement. Using sensors and light barriers, Muntendorf creates a completely new visual and sonic experience.
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
ReSilence is a project co-produced with
Programme curated by:
FAROUT LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 2025 /
EXHIBITION
9 –– 21 OCT
ReSilence:
Future Soundscapes & Affect Mining in Urban Ecosystems
Through artistic explorations driven by science and technology, ReSilence challenges established notions of urban space, using sound to map the affective fabric and anthropic ecologies of future cities.
FEATURING ARTISTS
Ari Benjamin Meyers with Halsey Solutions–– Caroline Claus –– Marcin Dudek –– Alevtina Kakhidze –– Paul Louis with Impulse Audio Lab –– Abel and Carlo Korinsky –– Brigitta Muntendorf –– Lugh O’Neill with Temporary Pleasure –– Guillem Serrahima –– Gustavo Maggio, Wendy Chua, and Joyce Beetuan Koh with Playersjourney –– Lea Luka Sikau –– Loukia Tsafoulia & Severino Alfonso with up2metric –– Andrea Cera –– Wen Liu and Alexander Hackl –– Tim Otto Roth
ReSilence is a project co-produced with
Programme curated by:
FAROUT LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 2025 /
PROGRAMME
50 days of performances and collective actions
An intense programme takes over BASE with performances, exhibitions, installations, participatory moments, and shared reflections. A constellation of diverse artistic voices engages with the festival’s themes through radically different languages and perspectives. A porous, ever-changing space—open to presence, and to the creation of new sensitive horizons.
FAROUT LIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 2025 /
IN THE CITY
CAVALCAVIA
Milan transforms into an open, ever-evolving field where art becomes a meeting ground and proximity is the first step towards imagining new alliances.
Between BASE and the city: once again, FAROUT spreads into the urban fabric with site-specific projects across Milan and its neighbourhoods—from Giambellino to Barona, Porta Genova to transitional areas—rewriting the relationship between art and public space.
FAROUT’s city programme is part of the CAVALCAVIA project, realised with the support of the Municipality of Milan under Milano è Viva nei quartieri.
know more
Press office BASE Milano
Lara Facco
Communication
BASE Milano
FAROUT Festival
