Film screening: MRZB

CONSUMED is a screening event of recent audio-visual work by MRZB.

Ticket is €5, 1 drink included - the event is sold out

• i killed my father, i ate human flesh, i quiver with joy (kaspar’s lunatic remedies) (12 min 35 sec, 2023)
• STILI DRAMA: La giostra di lulu XLI-XLIV (13 min 11 sec, 2021)
• kiki's fugue: spleen at the verge of boredom 2# (16 min 36sec, 2023)
• THIRST (49 min, 2 channel video, 2024)

Expanded audio-visual collages, projections of larger collective processes and assemblages, the selected pieces (2021/2024) evoke broken allegorically cinematic worlds governed by impulses, residues, repetitions and atrophies, articulating a capsule experience of the eeriness and decadence of the italian provincia and global’s suburbs – commodified, emptied, sold or just abandoned– where dreams are made of nylon and the decaying banquet is finally served.

MRZB is an art group based between Amsterdam and Milano formed in 2014, run by Andrea Parenti, Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, Filippo Tocchi and Pietro Cortona. Their nomadic and collaborative practice questions the processuality of creation as a stacking of tensions and forces. MRZB draws on the marginal, the domestic, the discarded, the suburban as removed, psychedelic and hallucinatory cosmos to traverse the specters and residues of a centripetal and massified reality. Appropriating the formats of the spectacle and taking them adrift, MRZB has produced polyphonic assemblages, pathetic and exaggerated microcosms that incorporate and re-signify the detrita of contemporary culture. MRZB stands for MERZBAU, the initial name of the environmental, architectural and livable sculptural assemblages by Kurt Schwitters. The interest in the series of artworks derived from a belief in the power of residues, in processes of accumulation, hoarding and mixturing and speculations around the potential collective liveability of an art-piece.