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Fermentation Pavillion

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A virtual conference and corporeal hub on fermenting indigestible cultural metaphors. 
 A project by Anna Bromley and Michael Fesca in conversation with EXPOSED. 

With  Atmaja Anan, Franco Berardi “Bifo”, ​Serge Attukwei Clottey, Collettivo Geologika, Copy &  Waste/ English Theatre Berlin, Giorgio de Finis/ Andrea Facchi, ​Stefan Demming, dilettantin  produktionsbüro, Journal Rappé, Journal Gbayé, Valentina Karga, Kuiperdomingos Projects,  Marco Philopat, ​Fabrizio Vatieri & Laura Lecce and others.

August 5/6, 2015, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, ­ Milan

​Realized with the kind support of​ C/O Milan and of the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department.  

Fermentations are an important technology, contributing to the production of high­value food  and beverages. Its​ metabolic processes ​are typically​ able to start autonomously, only  requiring​ naturally occurring ​microbial “contaminations”​  to​ consume raw materials.​  ​ These  customary aroma­, flavor­, texture­ and nutrition­enhancing techniques allow foods to stay  edible longer and present ​the base of ​community dishes from many geographical regions.  
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​Fermentation manifests a transcultural “alchemy” of human food culture.  While fermention processes are an important technology in biotechnological industries (i.e.  bulk chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), they can also be regarded as sensitive equilibria,  which demand time and attention. Paradoxically, the effect of fermentations is that the food  product is less hospitable to other microorganisms. But the wanted “contamination” is hard to  control and for long, fermentation industries seek techniques that can detect process failures  and costly delays. It is this inherent anarchic quality, the project is interested in.
In the fashion of EXPO`s pavilion­ concepts, the fermentation pavillion aims to connect  to the pre-­fairground notion of the pavilion as an airy garden ­space enabling informal  encounters and conversations driven by desires to be half­connected to the “dirty” garden  patches and half­connected to the tamed ​galante conduite ​ . ​ In reverse, the microorganisms  from the garden were able to pass onto the pavillion tables to metabolize the cultivated dish into a further (sometimes unwanted) cultivation. 

​Contemplating on fermentation as a resistant, secretly poetic and anarchic chemistry that  inhabits its host in a hacking­ or DIY­manner, the fermentation pavillion attempts to  be a two­night ­hub for commenting and “digesting” EXPO2015`s patronizing motto ​"Feeding ​the Planet". Finding its incorporation at Fondazione Forma, the pavillion will present live skype­conversations, ­performances, and screened video works  involving artists, theorists and activists with different geographical backgrounds.   

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