A party in honor of Claudio Coccoluto, the DJ who passed away in 2021 who fought the stereotyped image of club culture. The discovery of a plaque dedicated to him where the Goa Club once stood. A motion to start the process of naming a square or in any case a place of public interest.
A party for Coccoluto took place on Friday in via Libetta, where Goa once was and now there is the RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts in the presence, among others, of his son Gianmaria, of Giancarlo Battafarano who was with Coccoluto among the founders of Goa and of Amedeo Ciaccheri, president of the VIII Municipality.
“A special place dedicated to Claudio Coccoluto and the history of the Goa Club”, reads the plaque on which a quote from Nietzsche appears: “And those who were seen dancing were judged crazy by those who could not hear the music”.
It is a theme taken up by Ciaccheri: «It is exciting to create something that we are not used to seeing from the institutions, but the attitude is changing. We are here to share reflections on profound experiences that risk disappearing: a season and a generation that have made themselves known throughout the world. The city had a debt towards Coccoluto who brought the name of Rome to the world.”
«All the cities of the world are wondering how to implement night-time policies beyond the stigma. They resisted beyond the criminalization of the category, which is why I think the city must recognize Coccoluto as a real square and we will do so.”
“Now via Libetta” we read in a post from the Municipality of Rome “has a different appearance from that of the past, in which it was a nightlife district, but the intent is to maintain its memory, as an incentive and recognition to the people of the night and make it a space of free culture, shared memory and contemporary experimentation”.
“He was the conscience of Italian club culture”: at this link a profile of Coccoluto by Damir Ivic for Rolling Stone Italia.
