Bio
Martina Rota (Bergamo, 1995) is an artist working in the field of visual and performing arts. She is the co-founder of MASSIMO, an independent contemporary art space established in 2019 together with Giulia Parolin and Stefano Galeotti. In addition to her work as an artist, Martina is a movement director and performer, collaborating with artists such as Puppies Puppies, MASBEDO, Isabelle Wenzel, Boris Charmatz, and Cristina Caprioli.
Her artistic research, characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach, explores the urgencies, desires, and traumas of the body in both collective and personal dimensions. She considers her work an opportunity to build kinships with space, raise questions, and reflect on shared experiences. Martina began her studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, earning a degree in visual arts.
She continued her education across Italy and Europe, studying at the SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2017. In 2018, she joined DA.RE, a contemporary dance training program directed by Adriana Borriello in Rome. From 2019 to 2021, she participated in the research project “Incubator for Future Choreographers” at C.I.M.D., led by Franca Ferrari.
Carolina Papetti is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and movement director. She lives and works between Amsterdam and Milan. A graduate in choreography from SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, she has performed with artists such as Boris Charmatz, Rodrigo Sobarzo, and Keyon Gaskin. Her works have been presented in theaters and galleries in London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Milan, and she has worked as a movement director for fashion magazines including Lampoon Magazine, The Collector, and t-mag.
Her work unfolds in an unstable atmosphere, navigating between familiarity and threat, evoking and rejecting images and meanings to create new narratives. Through installations, video, sculpture, theater, performance, and writing, she explores the relationship between space, body, and perception, generating ambiguous and ever-changing scenarios. Ambivalence is the guiding principle of her artistic practice: a juxtaposition of materials, texts, images, and objects that provoke desire, suspicion, and uncertainty.
By investigating contemporary socio-political realities, the essence of artistic creation, and the ambiguity of language, her work engages the bodies and senses of the audience, leading them into states of doubt, rupture, and openness to collective and individual imagination. Her artistic research expands the notion of biography, blending self-proliferation, metamorphosis, and the transgression of lived experience.
Beatrice Perego (1995) is a director from Bergamo. In 2018, she earned a degree in New Art Technologies from the Accademia di Brera, and in 2019, she moved to Palermo to study documentary filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Her graduation film, Fino alla Fine, was screened at several festivals, including IDFA (Amsterdam), Visioni dal Mondo (Milan), Sedona Film Festival (Sedona), Sole Luna Doc Film Festival (Palermo), and Indy Film Fest (Indianapolis).
Her work moves between video art and documentary cinema, exploring hidden or denied realities related to loss, pain, and mourning—realities in which the director immerses herself personally. The result is a dreamlike, contemplative, and intimate visual experience, where the image becomes a living trace of the repressed.
Since 2021, she has been working as a freelance filmmaker between Milan and Palermo. She collaborated with Fondazione Prada for the exhibition New Society by artist and director Miranda July. Since 2022, she has worked with the artist duo MASBEDO, documenting the making of their upcoming film Arsa, their work Il Diluvio Universale, and the performance Ritratto di Città. She is also the co-founder of CORRENTE, an association organizing film screenings in the Ballarò neighborhood of Palermo.
Alessia Prati is a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual, Performing, and Fashion Arts at IUAV University of Venice, researching the intersections between publishing, performance, and choreography. She currently resides in Paris, conducting research at the archives of the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin. She collaborates as an editorial advisor for Spazio Punch in Venice, curating exhibitions and public programs related to publishing.
She has worked as an assistant in integrated choreography workshops at IUAV, led by choreographers Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Michele Di Stefano, and in the publishing lab of scholar Saul Marcadent. She co-curated editorial projects with the artistic collective MiamiSafari—Flexin Flexin Try to Exercise and Meet Me in the Bathroom—in dialogue with artists such as Annamaria Ajmone, Sonia Brunelli, Mara Oscar Cassiani, Camilla Candida Donzella, Leila Gharib, Sara Leghissa, Marco Mazzoni, Jacopo Miliani, and Giulia Vallicelli. She has written for Mimesis Journal, Kabul Magazine, and NERO.
Umberto Guidi (Milan, 1997) is an artist whose practice, deeply rooted in writing, transitions from words to staging. He studied documentary filmmaking with the ENECE film collective and Tommaso Perfetti, and later pursued screenwriting at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti, where he was mentored by Maurizio Braucci, Paola Mammini, and Lara Fremder. He collaborated with director Sergio Ferrentino on sound experiments for the theater company Fonderia Mercury. He currently works with the artist duo MASBEDO.
Filippo Pizzocrì (Pavia, 1997) is an artist working in the performing arts as a performer and actor, exploring the concepts of limits, will, and grace. His focus is on the here and now of performance: artistic ecstasy, transcendence, and the sensation of becoming part of a whole.
He began his studies in philosophy at the University of Pavia and later transitioned to theater, studying at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi. He continued his training at LAB STUDIO under Claudio Autelli and participated in advanced courses with Teatro del Lemming and IDRA Teatro. Notable projects include collaborations with MASBEDO for the opera Il Diluvio Universale, RATTI – Talent Show per un’Apocalisse Spettacolare by Paola Pannizza at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and Voci dal Mondo Reale, a nomadic soirée directed by Alessandro Sciarroni and Alexis Paul at Triennale Milano. He currently works as an acting coach, assistant director, and performer between Milan and Pavia.
