Cultures & Ferments
1999
A collaborative project with 5 Bakers at "Poilane Bakery" in Paris, France.
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Top,
left to right: Vicente Tarrega (Spain), Felix Ferrera (Portugal), Marcel Cable
(France), and
Percy Valdez (Peru).
Bottom, left to right: Patrick Dionisio (Greece), Pat Badani (Canada, Argentina, Italy)
Vicente, Felix, Marcel, Percy, Partick and myself spent three years producing bread-bowls at Poilane Bakery. I have used the bread-bowls in a number of ways in several projects dealing with urban culture between 1994 and 2001. In “Cultures & Ferments”, I use a bakery shop to map the work-space of foreigners in the urban environment. I produced the piece in conjunction with immigrant bakers from Spain, Portugal, Peru and Greece. Five bakers and myself, carved slices from sculptures reminiscent of leavened bread-dough that each had made. These gestures resonate by suggesting the social space immigrants produce in a new homeland, through work. The project brings to mind Julia Kristeva's claims: "Immigrants, hence workers. (...) The foreigner still considers work as a value. A vital necessity, to be sure, his sole means of survival, on which he does not necessarily place a halo of glory but simply claims as a primary right, the zero degree of dignity. (...) a universally tried and tested stock for the wanderer's use." (Strangers to Ourselves) |
Materials: baked bread dough and synthetic foam (digitally enhanced Prints)
Projects
2006 - 1999 -New Media Projects -Where Life is Better -Housebroken |
Projects
1999 - 1997 -Cultures & Ferments -Borderlines -Tower-Tour |
Projects
1997 - 1993 -Géographiques -R'èvolution des Particules -Photo/Drawing |
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e-mail: pbadani@ilstu.edu |
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