Agnese Cornelio & Massimo Carozzi - Artist

Massimo Carozzi is a visual artist, musician and sound designer. He explores the relationship between sound and image, scene, literature, and space. He has worked on the sound design of numerous documentaries, films, theatre and dance performances, both solo and in collaboration with writers, directors, choreographers and visual artists. In September 2000 he founded the collective Zimmerfrei with Anna Rispoli and Anna de Manincor, which participates in group and personal exhibitions, film, music and theatre festivals in Italy and abroad.

Director Agnese Cornelio comes from a theatre practice that interweaves fiction and documentary work. For the past decade, she has directed performances based on contemporary plays and documentary theatre projects for German- and Italian-language theatres and for international festivals. Her recent directorial work focuses on the crossovers between film and performance.

In spring 2024, the duo will work at Jester on a new artistic project in Genk. For this project, they will conduct interviews with second & third generation Italians living in the area. The final product is intended to be an audio work and a film. The project is conceived as a contemporary iteration of the films of director Paul Meyer, whose work documents the conditions of immigrant miners in the Borinage during the 1960s.

Agnese Corelio studied Communication (University of Bologna), Theatre Directing (ANAD Rome), and Advanced Scenography and Performance (APASS, Antwerp). Her documentary Fondata sul lavoro was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2019 Florence Film Festival.

Massimo Carozzi has been part of many music and sound projects, including El Muniria, Weight And Treble, Auriga, Phonorama, and Auna. He has collaborated in the studio and live with several musicians and artists, including Starfuckers/Sinistri, Massimo Volume, 3/4HadBeenEliminate, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Valerio Tricoli, Dominique Vaccaro, Emidio Clementi, Margareth Kammerer, Susanna La Polla De Giovanni, Muna Mussie. He has released records for Random Numbers, Second Sleep, Yerevan Tapes, Xing.