CARLITA, ILARIO ALICANTE, NINA KRAVIZ, SETH TROXLER, STEVE MARTINEZ TO HEADLINE
EASTER WEEKEND
30 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2024
COCORICÒ
RICCIONE, ITALY
Legendary Italian club Cocoricò has announced its brand-new festival Mutonia. Set to take place over the Easter Weekend, the 3-day extravaganza will be a multi-sensory feast combining music and art and offering partygoers a festival with a difference.
Carlita, Ilario Alicante, Nina Kraviz, Seth Troxler and Steve Martinez have all been confirmed to headline the festivities, ensuring the musical offering will be as top tier as fans have come to expect from the venue.
The fusion of music and art, Mutonia will see also the club invite The Mutoid Waste Company to provide a striking visual experience, accompanying the sounds of some of the world’s finest techno talent. First formed back in the 1980s, the collective of salvage artists and performers gained notoriety for their gigantic, self-propelled sculptures, welded exclusively from reclaimed material, hosting illegal raves within disused buildings that had all received avant-garde readjustments by the hands of the company. With strong roots in the music world, the MWC became long-term collaborators for Glastonbury, and even artistically directed for the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in London 2012.
Reaching the province of Rimini – which is also home to Cocoricò – many of the MWC decided to take up permanent residence in an abandoned quarry they transformed into the artistic village of Mutonia. Now, Cocoricò will play host to the Mutoids and their ground-breaking works – further emphasising the club’s position as an important cultural space.
Already well established within the electronic dance music space, Cocoricò’s iconic pyramid structure has become one of the industry’s most revered venues, housing the biggest names in techno and electronic for over three decades under its transparent walls. A hotspot for electronic music culture, Cocoricò is no ordinary club, as it continues to push the boundaries with its creative endeavours, and its 2024 programming is yet further testament to this.
About The Mutoids
The Mutoid Waste Company is a group of artists and performers founded by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler in the mid-1980s at the Car Breaker Gallery on Freston Road in London. Their activity then continued in the 90s in Italy with the transfer to Santarcangelo di Romagna.
The name of the collective was inspired by the British TV series Blake's 7 in which the Mutoids were reconditioned human beings whose personality had been removed. Deeply influenced by Mad Max's films and Judge Dredd's comics they specialized in organizing illegal parties in 1980s London where the musical proposal, from the initial blend of psychedelic rock and dub reggae, embraced the nascent acid house movement in the late 1980s.
The Mutoids have become famous for the gigantic even self-propelled sculptures, called mutoids, welded using exclusively reclaimed material and for the bizarre and avant-garde readjustments of the disused buildings in which they held their parties. One of their performances was included in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
About Mutonia
Mutonia is a village located in Santarcangelo di Romagna, in the province of Rimini, which seems to come from another world. Its environment is unique, characterized by a magical and surreal atmosphere, populated by gigantic sculptures and art installations made with recycled materials, such as rusty iron scraps, pipes, bolts, disused car pieces and wheels. Everything has a second chance in Mutonia, and the villagers see the artistic potential in every object that is reused.
For over twenty years, the community has lived perfectly integrated with the surrounding nature and also with the neighboring communities, which frequent it, support it and have defended it when the Municipality of Santarcangelo issued an order for the demolition and restoration of the area, following the complaints of a single person opposed to reality.
The company that lives in Mutonia is highly appreciated for its artistic and performative activity, as well as their philosophy of recycling. Often the 'mutoids' carry their works around to exhibit them during events and festivals, and in 2012 a performance of them attracted the attention of the Venice Biennale.
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