mare/Sat., 14 September 2024
Fiumicina Festival - Day 2
Sun, People, and Nature
Where Prati del Talvera, next to Ponte Talvera, Bolzano
Time 1 pm
From Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September, between 1 and 8 pm, Lungomare presents Three Days by the River, a Festival by Fiumicina. An Open Kitchen on the River. The project, staged by Johanna Dehio, Mascha Fehse and Johanna Padge at Lungomare’s invitation, is part of FLUX – River Interventions and Explorations: a multi-year programme that aims to explore and activate Bolzano’s river landscapes through artistic, cultural and ecological perspectives.
The Fiumicina Festival Three Days by the River invites people to share the unique experience of cooking together in a public space using only solar energy as the source of heat. During the peak sunlight hours—between 1 and 4 pm—participants can learn to prepare bespoke recipes according to the solar clock, guided by the project’s creators and a different cooking group each day. Following this, there will be two events featuring guests and experts discussing topics such as cookery, rivers, solar energy, public space and common goods, accompanied by tastings and concerts.
In collaboration with the Institute for Regional Development of EURAC Research, Fiumicina is improved through a participatory process to envision and design a future management model.
::: SAVE THE DATE :::
Fiumicina Festival
13. — 15.09.2024
Prati del Talvera, close to Ponte Talvera
Bolzano-Bozen
The event is open to the public.
Discover Friday’s detailed programme below:
::: Sun, People, and Nature :::
Saturday, 14th September
In a time when the climate crisis questions our relationship with nature and the use of its resources, including those depleted for nutritional purposes, the second day of the Festival suggests that the awareness of driving social and ecological change may begin right in the kitchen.
How might we reconsider a common and shared activity like cooking by engaging closely with primary natural resources such as water and sunlight?
1–4:00 pm
Edible Forms of Exchange
Fiumicina invites the artist Paula Erstmann to lead a solar cooking atelier
5:00 pm
Sun, People, and Nature – public debate
Johanna Padge (Artist and Designer), Mascha Fehse (Architect and Designer), Irene Lucas (Artist), Johannes Reisigl (Artist and Curator, part of KlimaKultur), Ruth Heidingsfelder (Activist, part of Scientists4Future & Climate Action South Tyrol)
6:00 pm
Presentation of recipes and tastings
7:00 pm
Guitar and Vocals: Self-Composed Pieces
River Concert by Verena Mur
Solar Cooking Atelier
Paula Erstmann is an artist who works mainly with food as her artistic medium. Herperformances, menus and food installations explore the social contexts of the food she uses and areartistic research projects between art and the everyday. The culinary work of the Berlin-based artistopens up both sensory and social spaces. With her work and the idea of eating together, she wants toovercome boundaries and create space for dialogue. Paula Erstmann is a food poet and socialactivist.What kind of stories does the food we eat tell us? The tableware, the textiles, the table we eat from?What collective memories does food awaken in us?
Public debate
Irene Lucas is a visual artist working at the interrelation of science, art, and technology. relating common territories of critical art practice, combining methods of nature, art, and play pedagogies. She works collectively in cooperation with the artist Christoph Euler, Project Expanded Garden FLUCC, Vienna, 2023 and Corridor Breaks at Manifesta 8, in Murcia, 2010. She is the founder of the Solarmanufaktur and the art space toZOMIA in Vienna since 2019.
Johannes Reisigl lives and works in the Alpine region. Currently, he conducts artistic research as ‘Roaming Rumours of Resistance’ with Juri Velt (since 2022), is a guest curator at ‘Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst’ (since 2023), member of the working group of Klimakultur Tirol (since 2022), contributor to ‘The Penguin Project’ (since 2023) and founder of the ‘Rural Commons Assembly’ (since 2021). He was recently also a co-curator of the symposium ‘Kultur im Dorf/Dorfkultur’ (2023), board member of ‘Kulturverein Grammphon’ (2021-2023) and co-founder of the study group ‘Strategies of Relationality’ (2019-2021).
Ruth Heidingsfelder is an agronomist and political scientist who works for various agricultural enterprises. As a co-founder of the BOOKBRIDGE Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurs in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, her focus is on the sustainable orientation of large production systems. She is a climate activist with Climate Action South Tyrol and advocates for needs-based water management and adherence to current environmental regulations.
River Concert
Verena Mur is a singer-songwriter from Bolzano who has been performing under the stage name Yen since 2021. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in violin (classical music performance) at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano and a subsequent Master’s degree at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona (2021), she discovered her love for guitar and poetry. Since then, she has been performing as a solo artist, presenting her songs, sometimes accompanied by poems, which were created over the past few years. The musical instruments Yen uses are the guitar and her voice. Her lyrics bring life to the stage with all its nuances, speaking of being and humanity in an honest and direct way. Her music invites listeners to think outside the box, to observe without judgment, and to perceive life not just in black and white, but to feel it with all its colors and shapes.
