For the spaces of Platea Palazzo Galeano, Extragarbo is engaging in an unprecedented manner with an exhibition format that is detached from the impermanent temporality of live arts from which it originates.

"Concerto" is the result of a process-oriented work and active involvement of the citizens of Lodi, carried out in May 2024. Through an investigation that intertwines the theories of sonic agency by American theorist Brandon Labelle with those of sociological imagination by Avery Gordon, the Venetian collective interviewed about a hundred people belonging to the various communities that make up the heterogeneous social system of Lodi, asking them two simple questions:

"If you could choose one piece of music to be broadcast in public space, so that everyone can hear it, what music would it be? In which place would you like to broadcast it?"

The responses yielded an affective archive, a sound-emotional cartography of the city, composed of musical tracks connected to significant places for the individuals and groups that inhabit it in different ways.

Like in a concert—a symphonic jargon umbrella term indicating a dialogue between different instruments or between a soloist and a choir—Extragarbo installs a jukebox within the exhibition space that, like a soloist in relation to the urban space outside, will accidentally and unexpectedly broadcast the tracks collected during the month of the exhibition. The eclectic repertoire collected activates the street-choir through a relational device that critically questions the display window as a privileged visibility space, attempting to make the boundaries between outside and inside, public and private, permeable, reflecting the richness and complexity with which the city is perceived and traversed.

'Concerto' is part of the third event of FARE COLLETTIVO, the new exhibition programme of Platea Palazzo Galeano. With FARE COLLETTIVO, Platea questions the reasons that drive artists to form collectives, the needs for creating spaces of cooperation and sharing, and the alternative scenarios that can arise from a collective artistic practice in a society that tends towards individualism and competitiveness. Through four exhibitions, a publication, and a series of events, Platea is configured as a place of investigation, involving the public and schools.