Too Late Parrots, 2026
performative reading
The piece explores desire, delusion, and excess under late capitalism. A personal encounter with plastic parrot sculptures in a dead-stock shop is the prompt for a poem that gradually turns against the writer itself. The object of desire becomes an antagonist, undermining the fantasy of self-fulfilment and the autonomy of poetic language.
performed on Friday 6 February 2026 at Perdu (@stichtingperdu ) in Amsterdam as part of ‘Organised Seduction’, a programme of performative readings by the students of the MA Critical Studies (@criticalstudies.sandberg ) at Sandberg Instituut.
Hosted by Marija Cetinić and Lorenzo García-Andrade.
With Emma Ajdari & Taylor Ljubica, Brandon Chow, Nicole Kuiper, Miglė Lukoševičiūtė, Kessy Maria Paller & Jody Aikman, Maximilian Pellizzari, António Manso Preto, gervaise alexis savvias, Paul Schmidt, Mehmet Suzgun, Gréta Þorkelsdóttir & Milda Valiulytė, Sara Vallis, Cecilie Fang, and Macarena Magaña Villar.
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Grateful for the inspiring month spent as a guest artist at ZKM, where I met great professionals and was able to develop a new performance in collaboration with Zeno Lösch (Sound Design and Programming), Daniele Corbari Verzeletti (Composer), Daniel Morandini (Programming) and Christos Dimitrios Kollias (Pianist, Interpret).
Scrolling Years 1789-2024, (2024)
Performance with recorded piano, live electronics, LiDAR, video projection, 15’
World premiere tomorrow December 05, 2024 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm CET at ZKM Kubus in Karlsruhe, Germany as part of Sonic Experiments 2024: works by Lam Lai and Marieke van de Ven in the category Analog Synthesizer, Beatriz Vaca »Narcoleptica«, Ben Fawkes and M LORE in the category Experimental Spatial Pop and Maximilian Pellizzari in the category AI & Sensor Technology.
#sonicexperiments2024 #zkmkarlsruhe
Holiday Postcards, 2022
Series of 60 Postcards, Ed. 10, Realised in collaboration with BBDB Studio.
Holiday Postcards is an investigation of the rambling and vacationing experience of image consumption in image-based social media. It consists of a series of screenshots taken on Instagram in the Explore section, each of which is showing arrangements of multiple images paired with a title that recalls the content of the pictures. As the visual material we are confronted with in this section of the app is seemingly random and changes rapidly over time, the user’s experience becomes intangible. The study is an attempt to reconfigure the subject’s agency over the user-based proposals of the system.
Photos: Slowphoto Studio (@slowphoto.studio )
-Presented in my first solo exhibition Holiday Postcards, in collaboration with BBDB Studio (@bbdb_studio ). On view at BBDB Studio, Via Gamba 40, Bassano Del Grappa, Italy. On view until 24th June 2022.
-Published in Franzmagazine,
Holiday Postcards: le cartoline dal presente di Maximilian Pellizzari e BBDB Editions, an article and interview by Maria Quinz (@maria_quinz )
#bbdbstudio #bbdbeditions #slowphotostudio #contemporaryart #bassanodelgrappa
Holiday Postcards, 2022
Installation view at BBDB Studio
Series of 60 Postcards, Ed. 10, designed by BBDB Studio in 2022
Holiday Postcards is an investigation of the rambling and vacationing experience of image consumption in image-based social media. It consists of a series of screenshots taken on Instagram in the Explore section, each of which is showing arrangements of multiple images paired with a title that recalls the content of the pictures. As the visual material we are confronted with in this section of the app is seemingly random and changes rapidly over time, the user’s experience becomes intangible. The study is an attempt to reconfigure the subject’s agency over the user-based proposals of the system.
Photos: slowphoto.studio (@slowphoto.studio )
-Presented in my first solo exhibition Holiday Postcards, in collaboration with BBDB Studio (@bbdb_studio ). On view at BBDB Studio, Via Gamba 40, Bassano Del Grappa, Italy. On view until 24th June 2022.
-Published in Franzmagazine,
Holiday Postcards: le cartoline dal presente di Maximilian Pellizzari e BBDB Editions, an article and interview by Maria Quinz (@maria_quinz )
To get one copy write in DM or at mxmlxmln(at)gmail.com (3 copies left)
#bbdbstudio #bbdbeditions #slowphotostudio #contemporaryart #bassanodelgrappa
The Screaming Image II, 2021
Sound Design: Zeno Lösch
Coding, UI: Daniel Morandini, Andrea Kaus
The performance The Screaming Image II connects the spoken word to digital images and seeks to highlight how they affect meaning and change our perception of words. The image “screams” into spatial and aural dimensions, influencing the subject’s ability to communicate according to his intentions. Every word spoken by the performer is recognised by a speech-to-text system (Google API) and searched online in Google Images. The resulting images are projected simultaneously with the performance, creating a juxtaposition of spoken word and image. Each image also emits a sound at the moment it is projected, generated as follows: A program scans the image from left to right, extrapolating data from the pixel composition and colour distribution that is then used to modulate fifteen sine curves and thus generate an improvised musical composition. The performer plays a role, but may improvise according to the projected images.
The Screaming Image II has been presented at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in Silandro/Schlanders during the initiative DenkMalFest in August 2021.
Realised with the support of BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, Silandro/Schlanders and with the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Department for Italian Culture.
0 100, 2018
Artist book
103 pages, 26x2121 cm, copy 1/1, printed in
Bolzano, Italy
Every number from 0 to 100 was searched on a
web-based image search engine. The book is
composed by a single page folded multiple times.
On every page there is the screenshot of the result
page of the number search. The content of the
book, if stretched out, reaches the length of 21,21
m.
-Selected for REPLICA, archivio italiano del libro d‘artista in 2019
-Exhibited in Kunst Meran Merano Arte in Translation in 2022
-Exhibited in Q21 Vienna in SHOOT & THINK, curated by Eva Leitolf and Giulia Cordin in 2022
Paradiso I, 2018
Canto I of the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri was converted into a sequence of images. The algorithm took the first result from Google Images for each word, and arranged the images in the sequence of the words in the text.
Digital print, approx. 100x500 cm.
Programmer: Romeo Bellon
Installation view in SHOOT&THINK, a group exhibition curated by Eva Leitolf @leitolf and Giulia Cordin @giuliacordin at Q21 in Vienna during Foto Wien 2022.
