From 7 to 12 December, the first masterclass, led by Yan Duyvendak, is scheduled at PARC with the participation of Genny Petrotta and Giorgiomaria Cornelio, the two artists selected for the 2024/2025 edition by the FONDO network, dedicated to emerging creativity.
For the artists that the network has chosen to support, the FONDO programme includes, in addition to residency periods, the opprtunity participation in workshops/masterclasses led by international authors.

Yan Duyvendak

Originally from the Netherlands, he lives in Geneva and Marseille. Trained at the École cantonale d’art du Valais and the École supérieure d’art visuel de Genève, his career as a performance artist began in 1995 with the staging of his first work of live art, Keep It Fun For Yourself.
Since then, he has produced a chain of creations and performances at venues around the world: Switzerland, USA, India Russia or Hong Kong to name but a few countries. His art underlines in particular how the overwhelming mass of analogical, digital and mental images as well as our social codes and other rituals of our fun society thicken the curtain between ourselves and reality. Yet his work never fails to affirm human dignity and show the extent to which it is imperiled by our image-dominated society.
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Genny Petrotta

Genny Petrotta (1990) is an Italian artist who lives and works in Palermo. Her artistic practice, guided by poetry and through video installation, seeks the sublimation of a wide range of interests and influences, from anthropological and philosophical to historical. Since 2016 she has been part of Il Pavone, an artistic collective with which she has exhibited in festivals and exhibition spaces. Since 2017 he has been working with the artistic duo MASBEDO as assistant director and also covering other roles. In 2022 she directed the production of the video installation “U scantu” by Elisa Giardina Papa presented at the 59th Venice Biennale and coordinated the production of “Alkestys” by Beatrice Gibson and Nick Gordon presented at the British Art Show. In 2023 she won the twelfth edition of the Italian Council with the project “Mamma Perdonami” and the On the Road 2023 Production Fellowship residency, hosted by Autostrada Biennale.

Giorgiomaria Cornelio

Giorgiomaria Cornelio (1997) is a poet, director, performer and editor of «Nazione indiana». He co-directed the “Trilogia dei viandanti” (2016-2020), presented in numerous film festivals and exhibition spaces. His contributions have appeared in «Il Tascabile Treccani», «L’indiscreto», «Doppiozero» and others. He published “La consegna delle braci” (Luca Sossella editore, Premio Fondazione Primoli), “La specie storta” (Tlon edizioni, Premio Montano, Premio Gozzano) and the essay “Fossili di rivolta” (Tlon Edizioni). He took part in the Civitonia project (NERO Editions). As a performer he has collaborated with Franko B, Teatro Valdoca, Roberto Paci Dalò, Cristina Rizzo, Fabio Condemi. Moira Egan’s translation of selected poems won the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. She is one of the curators of the project “Edizioni volatile” and one of the artistic directors of the festival “I fumi della fornace”.