[Testo disponibile solo in inglese] The installation uses the technique of the Audio Essay to build a report on the current state of gathering spaces in Rome. Spaces that are disappearing, like fireflies But «to know the fireflies, one must see them alive and dancing in the heart of the night: even when that night is swept away by some fierce searchlight» [Georges Didi-Huberman, Survival of the Fireflies, trans. Lia Swope Mitchell, Univocal Publishing, Minneapolis, 2018] The installation layers testimonies, field recordings, sonic carpets that evoke the city's closed, darkened, evicted or silenced spaces, and fragments of voice that reconstruct a map of the closures that have eroded Rome's cultural fabric in recent years. Clubs, social centres, independent spaces: every closure leaves a missing frequency in the urban soundscape, a void the installation tries to gather and render audible and passable The result is an immersive environment in which to see the fireflies again. With no claim to offer solutions, but with the need to pose an open question: what remains of a city when its gathering places are systematically removed?
