Nomads

Nomads Interactive installation
project 2013/2014

Officine Sintetiche platform
Promoted by: CIRMA Dipartimento Studi Umanistici – Università degli Studi di Torino
Supported by: Fondazione CRT.
Partners: PAV – Parco Arte Vivente di Torino; Politecnico di Torino – Ingegneria del Cinema e dei Mezzi di Comunicazione; Corso di Studi in Dams e Nuovi Media; Laboratorio Multimediale “Guido Quazza”, Scuola di Musica Elettronica del Conservatorio di Torino

Network: Contemporary Art Torino Piemonte

artistic direction: Ali Zaidi (UK, India, Pakistan)

Project design Officine Sintetiche: Tatiana Mazali, Antonio Pizzo, Vanessa Vozzo
Producer and e tutor videos: Vanessa Vozzo
Tutor interactive systems and videos: Stefano Sburlati
Tutor performance and graphics: Vanessa Michielon
Tutor sound: Andrea Valle
Tutor texts: Claudio Grimaldi
Arduino design: Giacomo Leonzi

Voiceover installation: Alessandro Tessitore
Children in the videos: Ettore Alonge, Agata Valenzano, Emma Valle
Video doc: Gigio Migliore

Selected Students:
Video shooting: Carlo Conversano, Fabrizia Cosentino, Giorgio Cristofoletto, Luigi Imperato, Luca Leli
Production and research: Federica Bertana, Silvia Carpignano, Elena Falomo, Lucrezia Gera, Giulia Gerbó, Davide Grimaldi, Marina Hassan, Alisa Marghella, Ilaria Milan, Grazia Salvador
Editing video: Mattia Capone, Carlo Conversano, Giorgio Cristofoletto, Alessandro Garelli, Roberto Sandri
Sound recording: Antonello Campo, Edoardo Rissone, Fuat Sunay
Sound design: Antonello Campo, Edoardo Rissone
Graphics: Mohammed Khedr, Elena Lamura, Stefano Rolando, Grazia Salvador
Photos: Giacomo De Caro, Luigi Imperato, Elena Lamura, Maria Teresa Sarti
Interactive system: Gianpaolo Basilicò, Micol Da Milano, Mohamed Khedr, Riccardo Mollo, Alessio Sacco
Performance (14 dicembre): Dimitri Gadaldi, Martina Muroni
Social media and promotion: Ludovica Baldassarri, Federica Bertana, Silvia Carpignano, Chiara Lurgo, Jessica Stella Traduzioni: Giuliano Cammarata, Elena Falomo
Video promo: Lorenzo Canale

01 February 2013

A portrait of coffee, rice and wheat, Nomadi, is an homage to migration and culture.

“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
William Blake

If viewed from a different perspective, the ordinary can become extraordinary. As modern day consumers most of us buy our food ingredients from super markets and shops following a principle of loyalty to brands. Nomadi is an interactive space making us rethink our habits and notions in relation to food. Together, let us rediscover the distant history of coffee, rice and wheat in a dialogue with the here and now. In the hands of each of us these simple ingredients may give birth to so many different dishes. The movements of peoples and resources are inscribed in the recipes and food we cook and eat.

Nomadi is a celebration of natural and cultural diversity and of the strong bonds that bind us together, from the intimacy of the home to the typical restaurants of our beautiful Turin.

“The cultural exchange of the hungry migrant is all about food and it performs a unique magic of connectivity, joining peoples and their children to distant ‘homes’, to past lives, to utensils, ingredients dietary traditions and health outcomes. It forms the basis of culture and memory. Food is often the initial point of contact through which difference is observed, discussed and celebrated. Sharing food is the perfect and inevitable vehicle through which the inter-cultural understanding can blossom.” Ali Zaidi

Discover the nomad in you. Each plinth has many stories to tell – enjoy!

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Première at Parco d’Arte Vivente.