Un artista ha raccontato l’incredibile storia di un borgo della Calabria che non c’è più. L’intervista
Italian artist Martin Errichiello has created [campanamuta], a six-part audio work broadcast on RAI Radio 3's Zazà program in late 2025 and now available on RaiPlay Sound. The piece tells the story of Eranova, a farming community founded in 1896 near Reggio Calabria that was destroyed by 1980 after the Christian Democratic party planned—but never built—a steel center on its land, now the site of the Port of Gioia Tauro. Errichiello weaves together interviews with former residents and his own original texts, using non-linear narration to explore the village's utopian origins and forced disappearance.
This matters because Errichiello's work exemplifies how contemporary artists are using audio and microhistory to recover erased communities and challenge official narratives about Italy's postwar development. By focusing on Eranova—a place that existed for less than a century and was sacrificed to an unrealized industrial project—the piece raises broader questions about territorial planning, memory, and the tension between individual lives and national politics. It also highlights the role of public radio (RAI) in commissioning experimental art that engages with local history and social justice.