Biography

Collettivo Amigdala is an artistic collective based in Modena, Italy, working at the intersection of performing arts and the public sphere. Through site-sensitive and community-based research, participatory practices, and performative interventions, the collective fosters the generation of new forms of collectivity and reimagines spatial dynamics.

Central to their practice is the use of voice and chorality as a public and political device — the collective voice as a tool for resistance, resonance, and spatial intervention. Their work takes the form of performances, soundscapes, walkscapes, participatory actions, and territorial interventions, often rooted in long-term engagement with places, local histories, and the communities that inhabit them.

Amigdala operates as a fluid creative space, giving room to multiple authorships. Their approach is grounded in feminist practices of care, listening, and empowerment, amplifying voices and perspectives that are often marginalised.

Amigdala also runs OvestLab, a community hub and artistic laboratory for public space practices and participatory experimentation, and curates Periferico Festival, an international festival of site-specific performance.

Their practice spans collaborations with artists, researchers, urbanists, and local communities, always seeking to shift perspectives on how space is perceived, inhabited, and narrated.

Artistic project

LOUD! is a community-based vocal performance for public spaces, developed through workshops with local participants and unfolding as a site-sensitive choral action.

Drawing on transfeminist perspectives on the right to the city and acoustic justice, LOUD! investigates how collective vocal practices can temporarily reconfigure urban space, making audible bodies and subjectivities that are often marginalised, silenced or rendered invisible. Voice is understood as a right rather than a talent: an embodied, relational and political practice that everyone can exercise.

The project builds temporary community choirs composed primarily of women and gender-diverse people, and brings them into public space through performative vocal actions. It does not aim to occupy space, but to resonate within it — activating relationships between bodies, architecture and sound.

LOUD! unfolds in three interconnected phases: a site visit to explore the specificities of local public spaces; a workshop in which participants explore the city through walking, listening and vocal practices; and a final performance in which voices expand into streets, parks, buses and squares, creating ephemeral acoustic infrastructures that reshape the urban soundscape.

Each iteration is co-created with local communities and develops a situated dramaturgy in response to the geographical, acoustic and social context of the place.

Format: community-based, participative performance

Size of audience: 100 to 200

Specific location: anywhere in public urban spaces

Timing/duration: 1 hour