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SECRETS TO SELL YOUR
DESIGN SERVICES
SECRETS TO SELL YOUR
DESIGN SERVICES
SECRETS TO SELL YOUR
DESIGN SERVICES
DROP CITy
7 giugno - 16:00
10 giugno - 16:00
DROP CITy
7 giugno - 16:00
10 giugno - 16:00
DROP CITy
7 giugno - 16:00
10 giugno - 16:00
DROP CITy
7 giugno - 16:00
10 giugno - 16:00
Secrets to selling your design services is an interactive performance demonstrating the seducing aspects of buying and selling design services. Design duo Xsenofemme will invite the audience to join them in a live negotiation process, which will ideally result in the signing of a contract, and the formalization of a sale.
Design exists because of a very elemental human need to satisfy a certain desire for beauty, a lust for forms, a pleasure derived from owning. Design fairs like Salone del Mobile, become places where designers sell themselves more than their objects, since objects alone are not enough anymore for the voracious audience. They are used to selling parts of their corporeal identity such as specialized crafts, unique techniques, and the overall invisible physical choreography of labor behind their projects. The deepest desire of the designer becomes the one to be owned, to be bought just like its objects. The designers' financial dream is represented by the buyer, who expresses the complementary desire to own, to buy. The designer and the buyer, then enter in a waltz of negotiating ownership.
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Secrets to selling your design services is an interactive performance demonstrating the seducing aspects of buying and selling design services. Design duo Xsenofemme will invite the audience to join them in a live negotiation process, which will ideally result in the signing of a contract, and the formalization of a sale.
Design exists because of a very elemental human need to satisfy a certain desire for beauty, a lust for forms, a pleasure derived from owning. Design fairs like Salone del Mobile, become places where designers sell themselves more than their objects, since objects alone are not enough anymore for the voracious audience. They are used to selling parts of their corporeal identity such as specialized crafts, unique techniques, and the overall invisible physical choreography of labor behind their projects. The deepest desire of the designer becomes the one to be owned, to be bought just like its objects. The designers' financial dream is represented by the buyer, who expresses the complementary desire to own, to buy. The designer and the buyer, then enter in a waltz of negotiating ownership.
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Secrets to selling your design services is an interactive performance demonstrating the seducing aspects of buying and selling design services. Design duo Xsenofemme will invite the audience to join them in a live negotiation process, which will ideally result in the signing of a contract, and the formalization of a sale.
Design exists because of a very elemental human need to satisfy a certain desire for beauty, a lust for forms, a pleasure derived from owning. Design fairs like Salone del Mobile, become places where designers sell themselves more than their objects, since objects alone are not enough anymore for the voracious audience. They are used to selling parts of their corporeal identity such as specialized crafts, unique techniques, and the overall invisible physical choreography of labor behind their projects. The deepest desire of the designer becomes the one to be owned, to be bought just like its objects. The designers' financial dream is represented by the buyer, who expresses the complementary desire to own, to buy. The designer and the buyer, then enter in a waltz of negotiating ownership.
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Secrets to selling your design services is an interactive performance demonstrating the seducing aspects of buying and selling design services. Design duo Xsenofemme will invite the audience to join them in a live negotiation process, which will ideally result in the signing of a contract, and the formalization of a sale.
Design exists because of a very elemental human need to satisfy a certain desire for beauty, a lust for forms, a pleasure derived from owning. Design fairs like Salone del Mobile, become places where designers sell themselves more than their objects, since objects alone are not enough anymore for the voracious audience. They are used to selling parts of their corporeal identity such as specialized crafts, unique techniques, and the overall invisible physical choreography of labor behind their projects. The deepest desire of the designer becomes the one to be owned, to be bought just like its objects. The designers' financial dream is represented by the buyer, who expresses the complementary desire to own, to buy. The designer and the buyer, then enter in a waltz of negotiating ownership.
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Funeral for Digital Data, 2022
Funeral for Digital Data, ArtVerona 2022, Performance, 2022
Living within a society soaked in digital data, we all leave behind a large amount of personal information stored on our computers, smartphones, and other digital devices. As a result, we are now facing the new, scary thought that we may lose everything altogether. This possibility comes with new feelings, and new systems of relationships formed between us and our digital selves which are not fully acknowledged, nor ritualized.
To think of “A Funeral for Digital Data”, Petrozzi critically attempts to restore and re-enchant our relationship with the internet and technology, while addressing urgent topics, such as loss and grief in the digital age.
Drawing on traditions in death rituals and mourning rites, Petrozzi activates a material installation to become a place for ceremony and retreat, in which Data can be grieved, digital devices can be mourned and where machines need blessings just as much as humans.
A three-days long funeral ritual for digital data is activated as the artist performs as a mediator between her personal losses and that of the audience. Inspired by ancient Greek laments, visitors are invited to share their digital loss on a computer (a loved one’s profile being erased from social media, an important picture or text erased, a lifetime of work lost). At the same time, a collection of testimonies taken from the internet is presented as an ongoing archive, creating a collective space for digital care.
Altogether, these laments provide an environment in which other people’s grief could also be heard and experienced. The space showcases elements that reference both funeral ceremonies as well as the digital realm. Discarded devices and revisited altars for offerings create a space for mourning and witnessing. Reminiscent of the artist’s family tradition of making flower crowns for those who have passed, Petrozzi is enacting the production of flower crowns, that will adorn the discarded digital devices within the space.
“A Funeral for Digital Data” for Onomatopee with the collaboration of Evropa.
This project was funded by Creative Industries Fund NL
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Official Website A Funeral for Digital Data
Shroud for a laptop; embroidered textile, metal charms, laptop, fresh flowers, 2022.
Shroud for a laptop; embroidered textile, metal charms, laptop, fresh flowers, 2022.