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MyceliuMinds - project conceived by Matteo Domenichetti curated by Milovan Farronato


Presentation of project with performative discussion

Thursday 20 January 2022, 7 p.m. (19.00)

Casa degli Artisti, Milan

MyceliuMinds, an unpublished project conceived by #matteodomenichetti and curated by #milovanfarronato, will be presented at the Casa degli Artisti di Milano on Thursday 20 January 2022 at 7 p.m. (19.00) with a performative discussion between the designer and artist Domenichetti, and Farronato, an independent curator. In the words of Domenichetti and Farronato, the project is situated "in a fruitful and slippery borderland between the natural sciences and art, speculative technology and nautical dreaming".

MyceliuMinds employs a cross-media, cross-disciplinary, performative, interactive and militant approach dealing with the theme of so-called “surveillance capitalism", i.e. the type of capitalism that has made human experience, now quantified and exportable, into free raw material for concealed commercial practices.

The discussion is the starting point of an artist’s residency which foresees more public occasions in the coming months, where the theme and thesis of the project will be performed in a live version of the video trilogy which is the heart of it, and the proposal to the public to initiate a dissident practice, i.e. the Swinging Club”, which consists in friends and acquaintances swapping profiles: a simple, but not innocuous, game, which, if continued on a large scale would have destabilising consequences, where algorithms would go crazy, making the “profile swappers” unpredictable targets. To paraphrase one of the videos in the trilogy, Farronato will play the role of the psychoanalyst in the framework of a screenplay specifically re-created thanks to collaboration with artists sympathetic to the logic and objectives of the project.

The discussion will take place on a three-dimensional stage painted by Paolo Gonzato as part of his ongoing series Out of Stock”, which on this occasion will take advantage of the faces generated by the site ThisPersonDoesNotExist. The walls of the scenery will also display works by: Katharina Fritsch, Celia Hempton, Katharina Grosse,Goshka Macuga, Enrico David, Daniele Milvio, Riccardo Paratore, Prem Sahib and Thea Djordjadze.

THE PROJECT

Domenichetti and Farronato first met in January 2019 during an event by Gucci, where the former has been working as a designer since 2017. During lockdown they decided to leave the city and rent an isolated house in the midst of the countryside in the Oltrepò Pavese area where both of them come from. Their new home was immediately seen as a place for experimentation and meeting #people, a laboratory of fertile encounters that came to life through visits from artists and friends, thanks to whom the embryo of the project MyceliuMinds soon took on a choral and collective dimension made up of generous collaboration and intense exchanges of ideas.

Further information in the press release to download