Founded by Riccardo Petitti and Andrea Lai, AGATHA has been a landmark of Rome’s nightlife, leaving a lasting mark on the city’s club scene and contributing, from Rome, to the renewal of Italian club culture by introducing some of the most advanced languages and practices of contemporary electronic music.
Developed together with Andrea Lai himself, the event takes shape as an update of a cultural legacy that remains deeply alive: a multidisciplinary format in which clubbing, sonic research, and visual arts converge to create a collective experience. Alongside music, talks, exhibitions, and audiovisual performances weave a narrative that connects body, sound, culture, discovery, and community.
Contributors to this journey include Four To the Dirt, a photographic exhibition by Mirko Ostuni dedicated to Southern Italian festive cultures and contemporary free parties; the talk Sound, Community, Territory featuring Toby Heys (MIT Press), Mirko Ostuni, Andrea Lai, and Emiliano Colasanti (42 Records); the audiovisual live performance Fragmenta by Alessandro Roberti (Studio Cliché) and Carmine Iuvone; and a musical line-up featuring Bluemarina, the Sicilian DJ whose sets blend contemporary electronic music, bass music, and vocal samples; VSC from Reveries, a Rome-based collective exploring a research-driven approach to club culture centred on low frequencies; Future Nomadz, a project born from the collaboration between Frenetik & Orang3 and Loose Horses / Gemitaiz; and DNN from LOBO, the Milan-based collective night dedicated to bass music and soundsystem culture.
AGATHA thus reactivates its historic identity in the present, restoring to the night its cultural force and to celebration its role as a space for connection, listening, and the production of meaning.
