Life Festival 2026 – Music Programme and Full Line-Up Announcement

Within the new edition of LIFE – Theatre Arts Media Festival, the project by ZONA K, co-produced with Fabbrica del Vapore, the music programme emerges as one of the festival’s key pillars, traversing diverse artistic languages and positioning sound as a tool for critical inquiry into the contemporary.

Running from April 30 to May 21, 2026, across Fabbrica del Vapore, ZONA K, and other venues throughout the city, the second edition of LIFE Festival unfolds a curated programme that brings into dialogue theatre, performing arts, installations, critical thought, and media.

Ideally opening this trajectory is Signal in Milano by Strijbos & Van Rijswijk, scheduled for April 30 and May 1 across urban spaces. This itinerant open-air musical performance by these two Dutch artists transforms the city into a perceptual score, inviting audiences into an expanded mode of listening that engages with the landscape and its evolving sonic imagination.

At the core of the music programme is Grey Line by SPIME.IM, staged on Wednesday, May 6 and Thursday, May 7 at 9:00 PM at the Cattedrale of Fabbrica del Vapore. The Italian collective—Davide Tomat, Gabriele Ottino and Marco Casolati—presents a live audio-visual performance of striking intensity, where digital aesthetics, media flows and critical reflections on the climate crisis, information overload and the symbolic collapse of the present converge.

Internationally recognised for their transmedia practice and appearances at festivals such as Mutek, Ars Electronica, Club to Club, Lunchmeat, Stereolux and L.E.V., SPIME.IM bring to LIFE one of the most radical and multilayered expressions of contemporary audiovisual research.

The festival’s musical dimension extends into club culture with a DJ set by Nesa Azadikhah, scheduled for Friday, May 8 at 10:00 PM at Le Cisterne. A DJ, producer, and musician born in Tehran and now based in Paris, Azadikhah stands as a pivotal figure within the Middle Eastern and diasporic electronic music landscape.

Founder of Deep House Tehran and the labels Apranik and Makhunik Records, her practice intertwines sonic research, cultural activism, and a distinctly transnational perspective. Her sets navigate seamlessly through trance, techno, and house, articulating the club as a space of freedom, resistance, and collective formation.