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NOTHING IS LOST, NOTHING IS CREATEDKADIJA DE PAULA & CHICO TOGNI
(BR/CA)
Workshop, Meal, Installation, waste, circular economy, ecology
The brazilian duo present a sculptural and organic work that entails on the collection, accumulation and transformation of materials and food excedents produced by the festival itself. The action will culminate on a collective free meal cooked on site, that will be served at the end of the festival.
Kadija DE PAULA & Chico TOGNI are a duo of artists who create situations and happenings that question the value of resources and social practices. They combine food, text and performance to create events and social experiences that take place in structures and functional objects they build with found resources and materials. They aprehend degrowth as a political and economic movement that can keep us going on as a society.
Chico and Kadija research habits and processes of consumption, disposal, recycle, and social assistance to make self-organizing and alternative economical experiments that challenge how we consume, accumulate, exchange, share, and waste an abundant surplus of resources
Together they were residents at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (FR); AZB Gastatelier Zurich (CH); Lanchonete.org São Paulo (BR); and Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna (AT). They recently presented their collaborations at AZB Skulptur Platz and Kantine Hermetschloo Zurich (CH); 67 Ludlow Street Gallery NYC (US); Wachauarena Melk (AT); frei_raum Q21 MuseumsQuartier Vienna (AT); FLUCA Austrian cultural pavilion Plovdiv (BG); Sesc, Casa Bárbara and Casa do Povo São Paulo (BR).