INFORMAL LUNCH project
- Piazza Garibaldi
- October, 27 | 11:00 - 14:00
Fondazione Morra Greco in collaboration with Officine Gomitoli
Artist: Eugenio Tibaldi
“Informal Lunch” is a performative workshop put on by artist Eugenio Tibaldi in collaboration with Officine Gomitoli, a cross-cultural centre at Cooperativa Sociale Dedalus as part of the EDI Global Forum.
A group of second-generation migrant women and mothers with children born in Italy living in Naples and coming from Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Georgia, Morocco, and Pakistan, joined by Officine Gomitoli in the process of social and cultural coexistence in Italy, were invited by artist Eugenio Tibaldi to imagine an 'informal pizza menu' combining the classic ingredients of pizza, a symbol of Naples, with flavours, spices, and recipes evocative for them of their country of origin.
The fifteen women participating in the workshop will cook a set of 'traditional' pizzas, i.e., tomato and mozzarella, enriched with ingredients 'estranger' to the classic Neapolitan recipe, preparing them with the EDI Global Forum guests. Combining a necessity such as eating with a trans-community practice, the pizzas baked at Eugenio Tibaldi's Informal Lunch, born from a mixture of non-native ingredients and recipes, tell the story of the encounter between a community of origin and one of arrival, thus prefiguring one of the future.
The Informal Lunch pizzas will be prepared and eaten by the group of workshop participants together with the passersby of the Piazza Garibaldi that will host the convivial moment, playfully activating the invitation to rethink the immutability of tradition, of our cities and of the meaning of 'identity' addressed to the EDI audience by Eugenio Tibaldi.
Artist's statement:
My first time in Naples I arrived at Piazza Garibaldi I was alone. For a provincial like me, the impact was stunning. Every sense was stimulated like never before: the mixture of languages, smells, and images made me feel foreign. Like any 17-year-old, I was hungry. I approached a stall, grabbed a takeaway pizza, and found myself sitting on a concrete divider, eating and watching in amazement at the incredible show around me... I had not yet realised I was already part of the spectacle.
