In Milan for three days, a museum turns into a disco

For 72 hours in Milan , a museum will turn into a disco. It will happen from March 3 to 5, 2023 at the PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea , which will host the Discorivoluzione project. By day, an exhibition will reinterpret the clubbing scenario by activating a series of site-specific installations; by night, the same spaces will come alive thanks to musical events. This is the challenge of this exhibition-event conceived by Politecnico, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea and Le Cannibale that will animate the Milanese pavilion from March 3 to 5. Promoted by the Municipality of Milan Culture, the exhibition is part of Milano MuseoCity (March 3-5) the event that every year transforms the city into a single, large, diffuse museum thanks to the coordinated opening of public and private museums that offer the public special exhibitions and initiatives.

Discorivoluzione is a research project curated by 50 students from the Milan Polytechnic’s Interior Design Laboratory a survey that collects evidence, traces and fragments of an ephemeral and revolutionary world still capable of intercepting the contemporary with stories that anticipated its social and cultural complexity. Electronic music, dance, dress code, assertion of one’s identity and struggle for civil rights represented a transcending of the pure material scale of these discomusical Interiors, transforming them into places of elaboration and experimentation of a new (transterritorial) ecosystem of change. This multiplicity of trends and behaviors developed an exploratory code of negotiation, of political activism, and often of rewriting the relationships and rights that internally governed it.

Discorivolution consists of three exploratory sections-Discodiorama, Discoarcheology, and DiscoArchive-that critically reread the clubbing scenario from 1960 to the present and narrate it through direct experience and a multiplicity of media and self-produced materials.

The five Disco-Installations, designed by the students of the Interior Design Laboratory led by Davide F. Colaci and Lola Ottolini, will activate the PAC spaces during the evening musical events, expressing that glimpse into the present and future of clubbing of which the project is the bearer.

Friday and Saturday nights Le Cannibale transforms the PAC into a disco with Daniele Baldelli, founder of the famous Cosmic and considered the first Italian DJ. He is joined by Fabio Monesi, internationally renowned DJ and producer. Saturday night guests are German artist Lena Willikens, resident DJ of the famous Salon Des Amateurs, and Japanese musician and singer Hiroko Hacci.

The project is supported by Leroy Merlin, Bencore, Pioneer, Fedrigoni. DISCORIVOLUTION is a project curated by: Davide Fabio Colaci, Lola Ottolini, Lorenzo Cellini, Alberto Dapporto, Riccardo Ferrari, Chiara Lionello, Gregorio Minelli Vacchi, Giulia Novati, Paola Ostellino with students from the Interior Architecture Design Laboratory of the Milan Polytechnic + Albert Hofer, Marco Greco of Le Cannibale.

The exhibition opens Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with free admission. Disco nights, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., are chargeable (15 euros). For info: www.pacmilano.it

Photo: Keith Haring’s mural at New York’s Palladium nightclub (1985) ©Timothy Hursley, Garvey Simon Gallery

In Milan for three days, a museum turns into a disco

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