The “Perdigiorno” is a project created for Claire Tancons and Cake Away’s programme at San Piero di Casteo in Venice in 2013. It developed in two separate moments: a workshop and a walk around the city streets.

Tommaso Bisogno, Laura Bruni, Francesca Cagnin, Elisabetta Di Maggio, Matilde Di Pietropaolo, Giulio Ernesti, Bruna Esposito, Elisa Fantin, Andrea Giacometti, Gabriella Giuriato, Rodica Istrati, Mariagiulia Leuzzi, Antonella Mazza, Rita Merritt, Cristina Mordiglia, Federica Pellati, Luca Pes, Piero Pes, Roberta Rizzi, Hella Thalmann, Maria Grazia Vetrone, Andrea Zanzotto.

 

1- WORKSHOP

Creating your own colour.

Each person has their own bowl, brush and lots of colours. I include other people in my creative process, passing on to others what I know. What I do every day is copied by each person in their own way. This downplays and eradicates the emphasis of my simple and repetitive gesture and shortens the distance between myself and others. The colour is an emblem of subjectivity. Each has their own colour, each chooses their own colour, and each is their own colour. Behind every colour is a person. You construct your own colour starting with the artistic practice; you discover it whilst working in contact with the substance itself. 

 

Absorbing the colour.

You absorb the colour you have found through a sea sponge. The sponge is a symbolic element that absorbs the experience. The sponge is a small element that is kept in the palm of your hand. The sponge is an element that allows you to carry your colour around.

 

Constructing the object.

The wanderer’s object is constructed using a branch or a cane, a nylon thread and a coloured sponge. A transparent thread holding the coloured sponge is hung on a slender branch about one-metre long. It is an object that leans on the shoulder, like a bundle.

 

2- PROCESSION 

A group of around thirty people goes for a walk together.  A shared condition. Walking in companionship and carrying around what they made. Walking together whilst taking out their own individuality.

Everyone carries their “bundle” on their shoulder, a coloured sponge hanging to a branch via a thread. At the end of the route the sponges are placed in a single container. There are lots of little lumps full of colour. They are lots of coloured points that move through the city space.

(Written in 2013)