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Friday, 19 May: formazero will be leading invited participants on a discursive journey across Rome. The project will be documented by an installation at Fondazione Adriano Olivetti on Saturday, 20 May.
Saturday, 20 May: Arabeschi di latte presents Multitasking Kiosque throughout the course of the symposium at Fondazione Adriano Olivetti.
Sunday, 21 May: Cesare Pietroiusti conducts Corsetta Filosofica – a walking/talking event through central Rome.
In the frame of Hospitality, formazero has developed a system of dissections of the city of Rome, wich provides a ritualised frame for considering how urban space is percieved and rendered. A number of small groups of partecipants take part in simultaneous walk starting from a central meeting point in the city (Largo Argentina). The groups are instructed to follow random passers-by, using a simple methodology for both performing and documentating the task. At end of the task, they attempt to trace their route back to the starting point. Documentary material gathered during the walks will be used by formazero to activate a process of filtration that will be presented in the form of an installation at Fondazione Adriano Olivetti during the Hospitality symposium on Saturday 20 May.
This project constitutes the fourth part of a research project called Vivisezioneurbana [Urbanvivisection] that began in 2002. Vivisezioneurbana is a series of actions performed in and on the urban fabric, and the development of tools of reception and filtration that, through an act of deconstruction, aim at giving a new perception of urban space >>> V.U. DOSSIER
formazero resulted from the encounter between a group of artists of different generations, educational backgrounds and disciplines, brought together by the need to invent a collective creative practice to explore the potential of communication and its social import. formazero’s critical and linguistic research is based on a reconsideration of artistic practices through a distillation of the ethical aspects of aesthetic and relational structure in Western societies.
Founders and members of the collective are: Antonio Venti (video artist), Maurizio Giri (composer), Davide Franceschini (photographer).
Multitasking kiosk by Arabeschi di Latte is a tiny multifunctional desk where you can find many comforts, souvenirs, gadgets and snacks, and a place where you can receive information and advice. The kiosque is made up of various elements: a split-level round table, a little cork cupboard, a metal box and various accessories.
Arabeschi di Latte is a creative group founded in 2001. What characterises Arabeschi di Latte is the principle of a 'daily sense of happiness' pursued through various strategies of participation and alternative functional models that respond to the basic needs of social life with an emphasis on pleasure. The group focuses on the power of food to create situations and relationships.
Arabeschi di Latte is a collective of six architects: Francesca Sarti, Alessandra Foschi, Silvia Allori, Francesca Pazzagli, Francesca Sorgato, Lisa Casucci
CORSETTA FILOSOFICA
For the third day of Hospitality, Cesare Pietroiusti has developed Corsetta Filosofica, a high-speed walk starting from Piazza Augusto Imperatore, in the centre of Rome. During the walk, participants will take part in a discussion on the themes of Hospitality and The Inhospitable, contributing their ideas, readings and other people's stories. The element of fatigue is integral to the project and may inform the nature of the conversation. The voices will be amplified so that participants and casual passers-by will be able to hear the discussion. The symposium ends with a meal at Pietroiusti's studio.
Cesare Pietroiusti's art practice focuses on problematic and paradoxical situations that are hidden in common relationships and ordinary acts – thoughts that come to mind without a reason, small worries, quasi-obsessions that are usually considered too insignificant to become a matter of discussion, or of self-representation. The artist explores choices and intentions formulated by subjectivities other than his own, and the ways in which to make these choices become his own choices.
In 1997 he published Non-functional thoughts (ed. Morra, Naples), a small book containing approximately one hundred useless, parasitical or incongruous ideas to be realised as art projects by anyone. Some of these ideas have been executed by artists and curators, such as for the exhibition Democracy! (Royal College of Art, London, 2000). Around 500 people contributed to his project Things That Are Certainly Not Art, which inaugurated the Bloomberg Space in London in 2002. He took part in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) with Riserva Artificiale, a collective work with a group of students from the local Academy of Fine Arts. The work comprised narrative explorations of the people and places in Porto Marghera, the industrial area of Venice.