about

Food is an aspect of society which we all share and understand. Food is a great connector which is naturally and organically part of our daily routine but equally marks important moments of our social existence. Its consistent presence and role as necessity has resulted in it becoming a politically charged societal aspect which, now more than ever, needs addressing.

The Scrematura Atlas is the next step of a longer research and collaboration between Carlotta Novella from public works (UK) and Francesca Ulivi from Fairland Collective (France, UK, Ireland).

Within our respective practices, we have been exploring food and conviviality as instruments for commoning and community empowerment. Our evolving practices see us becoming hosts, facilitators and collectors of narratives. The ethos we share goes towards a revised and constantly developed art of gathering and production of togetherness.

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Lion Salt Works dinner, Northwich February to November 2019, with FEAST journal
by Fairland Collective

Blackfriars, London - July to November 2019, commissioned for Southwark Council
by public works

Francesca Ulivii is an artist and curator, specialised in socially engaged artistic practices and useful art.
She works on experimental artistic projects which have as their objective the development of new educational programs for artists and the creation of networks for the sustainable development of territories, and public spaces. Since 2014 Francesca has worked for Grizedale Arts (co-founder of the Arte Útil movement). In 2016 she co-founded Fairland Collective, an international network that researches the narratives and politics contained within ingredients and food production processes and uses cooking and meals to engage networks of people and communities. Francesca exhibited and directed projects in Boston, New York, Berlin, London, Milan, Dublin, Liverpool, Paris and Kiwanosato

Francesca Ulivi

Carlotta Novella

Carlotta Novella is an artist, architect, teacher and host, part of London based practice public works.
Through projects that challenge the idea of gathering, her work looks at how spaces and rituals of food and conviviality can develop civic practices, promoting direct involvement and collective action in order to transform and reclaim contemporary public life. Her work addresses contemporary socio-political and cultural issues through a spatial lens, focusing on the interplay of use within and between private and public spaces. Carlotta’s practice challenges the idea of togetherness in a performative and spatial way, allowing personal and community narratives to inspire and become the focus of each project. Often using mappings, props, performative suppers, scripts, mobile structures, situated prototypes, sculptures and more, her projects inhabit the hybrid multidisciplinary field of the on-site and research, where she can experiment and create new tools for future common practices.

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