DEATH-DESIGN-DATA by Cecilia Casabona and Ginevra Petrozzi

Parco Gallery will host the DEATH-DESIGN-DATA book presentation with its authors Cecilia Casabona and Ginevra Petrozzi, published by Onomatopee Projects (NL). The book is a research project that explores the digital dimensions of design in the context of grief and death. Guests MaAlex Duo will join for a conversation about the book and their new project, AI-Generated Memories: Artificial Intelligence, Contemporary Rituals of Collectivity and Mourning. The event will be followed by a live performance featuring Goga and music by Alessandro Fiorin Damiani.

Thursday 29th May - Doors open at 6:30pm. Talk at 7:00pm
Date:
29 May 2025
Time:
2025-05-29 18:30:00 – 2025-05-29 20:30:00
Type:
Book Presentation
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DEATH-DESIGN-DATA by Cecilia Casabona and Ginevra Petrozzi

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DEATH-DESIGN-DATA investigates the experience of death and grief in the digital era - one that is saturated with information yet finds itself devoid of rituality - and how art and design could play a role in reconciling humans with death. In particular, the book contains several contributions from artists and designers based in Italy or in The Netherlands. The co-editors will introduce the book and its genesis, whilst the duo MaAlex and Alessandro Mason & Goga Mason will guide us inside the content of the book through words and performative interventions. With contributions by Camille Wiesel, Cecilia Casabona, Ginevra Petrozzi, Lorenzo Montinaro, MAalex, Mourning School, Perrine de Donato, Studio GISTO & Goga Mason, Susanne Duijvestein, and Thomas Walskaar.

Cecilia Casabona (she/her) is an Italian curator specializing in design. Her work focuses on collective approaches to thinking and making, with a particular interest in participatory methodologies and performative practices. Centered on the designer’s role within their built environment, she explores contemporary tools and research strategies shaping today’s design landscape.Cecilia’s curatorial practice bridges cultures between Italy and The Netherlands, exemplified through her active participation in Dutch and Milan Design Weeks. She is currently associate curator at Onomatopee Projects in Eindhoven (NL). She has also curated exhibitions in collaboration with BASE, DOPO?, Baltan Laboratories, ArtVerona Fair, and other international platforms.

Ginevra Petrozzi (she/her) is an artist and social designer currently living and working in the Netherlands. Her practice explores the expansion of magical thinking within the context of surveillance technologies. Drawing from Italian folklore and ancestral knowledge passed down clandestinely through generations of women, her work seeks to reclaim and reactivate these hidden legacies. Influenced by Silvia Federici and the notion of supernatural practices as ‘tools of grassroots resistance’, Petrozzi investigates the subversive potential of magic to reclaim agency in the face of techno-capitalism.She was an artist-in-residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academie during the 2023–2024 cycle. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Roma Europa Festival (IT), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (HR), Het Hem (NL), INDEX Braga Biennial (PT), AlbumArte (IT), ADI Design Museum (IT), and MU Hybrid Art House (NL).

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