DATE

from 13 to 16 September 2018

Workshop

Fermento Colturale Visiting Artist Piero Passacantando

This interdisciplinary  Workshop aims to study the production of fermented products with bacterial cultures and yeasts. The participants will deal with traditional methods, healthy and “forgotten” after the advent of industrial products for the production of goat cheese, bread, fermented beverages and other foods. These transformations, which can appear almost alchemical but are at the same time scientific, will offer food for thought for conversations about inner and social transformations. The group will also be encouraged to experiment with the visual and sculptural possibilities of these processes. We will look at various vessels, baskets and fabricstraditionally  used. Thanks to the interaction between artistic-enogastronomic research, conviviality and local products, the workshop builds new forms of social exchange.
Piero will share his knowledge, at the same time, participants with experience in fermentation techniques will also be welcome to share theirs in the spirit of exchange.

Partecipants

Silvio Palladino, Maria Pecchioli, Valeria Scozzafava, Angela Burico

Local Network

Podere Le  Fornaci 
Filippo Bartolotta – Wine Educator

BIO

Over the past decade, Piero Passacantando  has focused on painting, social practice and connections between the two. Passacantando’s work has been exhibited and performed at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, BRIC Arts, Ed. Varie Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, Art in Odd Places and the DUMBO Arts Festival. He has received residencies and fellowships from: Ed. Varie Gallery, Flux Factory, and the Laundromat Project in NY; from the Summer Decompression Camp at the Corniolo Art Platform in Corniolo, Italy; a Fulbright Grant to research Thangka painting in Kathmandu, Nepal. Passacantando holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts (San Francisco and Oakland, CA) and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design (Washington DC). He lives and works in Rome, Italy, and New York City, USA.