One Day You’ll Understand. 25 years from Dissonanze

Curated by Cristiana Perrella, the new artistic director of the MACRO museum, the exhibition on the second floor of the museum is dedicated to Dissonanze, a visionary and influential Italian festival active from 2000 to 2010, which transformed Rome into an international crossroads for electronic music, digital culture and art.

Twenty-five years after its first edition, the exhibition traces the history of the festival, conceived by Giorgio Mortari with the aim of bringing the most cutting-edge and experimental electronic music to Italy. Through an extensive visual archive (photographic, video and graphic material) and sound archive (one room is dedicated to listening), the project highlights the pioneering spirit of an experience that over the years wove together sound, image and architecture, giving rise to immersive and ever-evolving experiences and inhabiting symbolic locations in the city, from Pietralata to the Palazzo dei Congressi, from the Ara Pacis to the Cappa Mazzoniana at Termini Station.

The exhibition is accompanied by a public program of meetings, concerts, performances and guided tours, which connect the history of the festival with the trajectories of the contemporary scene.