After having taken Milan by storm, during one of the most important events in the food industry in Italy, our hunger doesn’t stop there, on the contrary, it grows and is infectious. Identità Affamate (Hungry Identities), the most recent work by artist Franca Formenti, mixes art, food and activism, and will be part of the UMAMI: Food and Art Festival www.umamifestival.org, taking place from 12th to 17th April in New York.
The artist has been invited to present one of her videos of her previous performance entitled Beggar’s Food - Ho fame/Hai fame? (I’m Hungry/Are You Hungry?) (2010, www.foodpower.it) and will take the opportunity to entice taste buds and brain cells by getting the public and chefs involved in the game of Identità Affamate attempts to emphasise the differences between hunger and gluttony, concentrating on fragmented identities in urban settings and inviting New York chefs to contribute to the project. Identità Affamate will give:
1 Fork to the chef who will accept to offer a taste of his/her own cuisine to a member of the public who could normally never afford to sit at a “starred” table;
2 Forks to the chef who will accept to spoon feed that member of the public;
3 Forks to the chef who will accept to cook with the member of the public; The people involved will be asked to talk about the food they have tasted. The action will be videotaped.
In anticipation of the event in New York, here are the videos of the first event during Gourmand Identities (February 2012)
Chef Paolo Donei
With gluttony you eat with your eyes
(hungry identity G.N.)
Chef Lorenzo Cogo
Hunger is something that we still have to experience 100%
(L. Cogo)
Chef Christian Puglisi
Gluttony is gluttony is something else entirely...
Marco Mancuso is a curator, critic and consultant in the field of digital technologies applied to art, design and contemporary culture.
Founder and director at Digicult and Digimag Journal, he teaches “Linguaggi delle Arti Multimediali” at NABA, “Sistemi Interattivi” at IED in Milan, “Nuovi Sistemi Editoriali per l’Arte” at Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo, “Digital Media Management” at IED Masters in Milan and is visiting professor at Transmedia-Postgraduate Program in Arts+Media+Design in Brussels and MAIND Interaction Design Master at SUPSI in Lugano.
With the Digicult Agency he curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, round-tables, meetings and events including Mixed Media (Milan, 2006), Screen Music (Florence, 2006-2007), Otolab ‘op7’ (Bergamo, 2008), Graffiti Research Lab (Rome, 2008), Sincronie Festival (Milan, 2008-2009), Thorsten Fleisch Retrospective (Milan, 2009), The Mediagate (Lodz, 2010), he presented his screenings and productions at art and cultural events, including Dissonanze (Rome, 2006), Cimatics (Brussels, 2008), Strp (Eindhoven, 2008), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, 2009), Nemo (Paris, 2009), Elektra (Montreal, 2010), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011) and he lectured among others at Market for Digital Arts/Elektra (Montreal 2008), Fabrica Workshops (Treviso, 2009), Laptop’r’s (Madrid, 2010), Subtle Technologies (Toronto, 2011) and Isea (Istanbul, 2012).
Marco Mancuso partnered with most of the main media art festival in Italy and worldwide and he recently developed the “Digicult Editions” open-publishing online service. Marco Mancuso has been expertising from years on wider subjects like open communication, social networking and digital publishing.
While collaborating with many editorial magazines, Marco Mancuso also curated the publication “The Open Future” by "MCD-Musiques et Cultures Digitales" magazine / Issue#68 in 2012 and he was included in the publication “Cultural Blogging in Europe” by LabForCulture.org in 2010.
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