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.
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.
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.
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.
Liscìva, 2019
Wood, copper, aluminium, fake leather, 2019
The washing machine was a revolution for women's labour in the house. Before that, laundry day consisted of an intense day of work, usually on one's knees, scrubbing clothes on a stone, sometimes singing together to follow a rhythm. At the same time, this established situation would allow women to step away from their own houses and communicate finally. What may have been oppressive on one side was creating the collateral possibility of exchange, and exploring topics of conversation not allowed inside the family context.
My main aim was to acknowledge rituals as both highly protocolled actions and possibilities for communing. The project Liscìva doesn't tackle the problems around women's domestic labour. However, it creates a stage for different interactions around the laundry "task", asking what could be re-inserted into the contemporary washing ritual to establish a new care system.
In my project Liscìva, I designed an outer structure that wouldn't require physically consuming movements, but would still allow the communal interaction of washing clothes outside. The result was a livable modular structure meant to be used in a composition of at least 8, using a central textile to harvest rainwater.
Still from video, 1:19, 2019
Liscìva, Video, 2019