SHARED BRILLIANCE
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The 2025 edition of Electropark, themed “Shared Brilliance”, celebrated collective creativity and the power of connection between artistic practices, communities, and disciplines. Inspired by the thought of writer and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the festival embraced a vision of brilliance as something generated together — through exchange, diversity, and collaboration.
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Across two prologues and the July festival, Electropark presented a transdisciplinary program bringing together DJ sets, live concerts, performances, talks, masterclasses, and workshops. The underground and raw spirit of the festival met hybrid and experimental languages, expanding into new artistic territories while remaining rooted in electronic music culture.
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With 40 artists from 11 countries, Electropark 2025 turned Genoa and Liguria into a shared space of sound and experimentation, highlighting inclusion and multiplicity in both artistic formats and social perspectives.
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The line-up included Diana Salles, Pensive Vivifier, Liryc Dela Cruz, Ginevra Nervi, Luxe, Yas Meen Selectress, Tygapaw, Interstellar Funk, Olof Dreijer, Bendik Giske, and Double Drop.
EVERGREEN PODCAST ​​
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A season to keep floating together in troubled times.
“... Those who survived in the underbellies of boats, under each other under unbreathable
circumstances are the undrowned, and their breathing is not separate from the drowning of their kin and fellow captives, their breathing is not separate from the breathing of the ocean, their breathing is not separate from the sharp exhale of hunted whales, their kindred also. Their breathing did not make them individual survivors. It made a context. The context of undrowning.
Breathing in unbreathable circumstances is what we do every day in the chokehold of racial gendered ableist capitalism. We are still undrowning.”
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned
Unwanted, and discouraged. Censored, silenced, exiliated. And yet, thanks to every concert, performance, or exhibition, they keep us from drowning. Artists are the breath of resistance. How do we undrown? How do we keep breathing, and glowing in the face of sufference and loss?
Those are the questions we will ask to Electropark’s artists of this year. Follow our podcast to keep floating together in these troubled times.
Evergreen is created and conducted by Claudia Calabresi, podcaster and writer. Cla Calabresi is a transfeminist activist, writer and podcaster.
Cla Calabresi is a transfeminist activist, writer and podcaster. She lives between Genova and Baltimore, where she follows a PhD at Johns Hopkins University on Cinema, Gender and Queer studies.
As in the last years, the podcast will be airing on Cashmere Radio, a not-for-profit community experimental radio station based in Wedding. Quoting Radio Cashmere’s own words, “The
ambition of the station is to preserve and further radio and broadcasting practices by playing with the plasticity and malleability of the medium. We do this by both honouring and challenging its inherent qualities: it is both a physical station open to the public and an online radio; it has regular shows, yet opens itself up to extended and one-off events; it features extended generative music performances and installations at the same time as working within radio’s typical durations. In short, it is an attempt to enhance and celebrate the performative, social and informative power of radio that we believe lies within the form itself.”