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We are all ‘clandestino’ | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. We are all ‘clandestino’. With plenty of hard-earned knowledge still in circulation, people in the area continue to make things at home using traditional methods, though these days only for themselves and friends without sale (‘personal use’), or on the wrong side of the law for a circle of trusted individuals. Elsewhere in Italy, the Genuino Clandestino. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are commenting usin...

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Castello Commons | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. The last fascitraru →. People here know well enough about using these herbs in cooking, tied to the territory and the campagna. However what he thinks has been lost is knowledge of the healing/medicinal properties of plants. In popular tradition, lots of the herbs are called ‘. Though this site is managed by the Commune, Paolo says they don’t have shared gardens in Palazzolo. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).

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Ricotta | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. Casa museo dell’apicolturo tradizionale. Castello Commons →. In the dark sleepy morning a few of us rolled into a car and drove some 40 minutes to see the ricotta-maker at work. 74-year old Passarello fires up the gas burner at 5:45am every Wednesday and Saturday, and by the time eager neighbours start arriving at around 8:30am, his 60 litres of milk has been transformed into a sea of plastic tubs of wobbly, steaming ricotta. A starter culture,.

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The last fascitraru | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. We are all ‘clandestino’ →. Last week flicking through a book on Sicilian apiculture at the traditional beekeeping house-museum, I saw this picture, and recognised the beekeeper’s name. He is known, at least amongst beekeeping circles, for being the very last expert in the traditional. Thyme) honey of this region. Method, the bees are free to work as much or as little as they want, unlike modern-day hives that force their workers into maximum efficiency.

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Tintura madre | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. Casa museo dell’apicolturo tradizionale →. The next day, Ida shows me how to make a simple. The resulting infusion is good for fingernails and the blood, and also for repairing broken bones. To prepare such things for sale one needs to pay certain taxes. So, here the craft remains in the realm of ‘home use’. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).

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Casa museo dell’apicolturo tradizionale | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. Casa museo dell’apicolturo tradizionale. Another house museum, this one dedicated to the traditional method of beekeeping once practiced widely in this area,. Stems of the giant fennel plant were cut, smoked and formed into tall boxes with olive or almond tree branches, their insides covered with wax and clay. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).

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Tessa | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. After much anticipation, a few of the Akrai artists visited Tina’s house to make ravioli. Tina’s ravioli were perfect little pillows of sweet, cinnamon-scented ricotta. Ours were rather more plump and ‘rustic’, but plentiful. All were eaten with a hefty dollop of tomato and. Sauce Tina has a vast collection of crafted objects, and knows how to use them. Gianni cries ‘who will repair all these things when I’m gone? We are all ‘clandestino’. With plenty of har...

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Tessa Zettel – Futurecraft Institute Akrai | Design for the Living World, HFBK

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Tessa Zettel Futurecraft Institute Akrai. Artist Tessa Zettel from Sydney, Australia, gave a presentation about a residency project she just completed in Sicily, ‘Futurecraft Institute Akrai’. Tessa spent 4 weeks researching local craft practices relating to food and repair, and then experimented with ways of distributing and reinterpreting this knowledge, producing a series of artefacts and events presented by the fictional Institute, that incorporated drawing, performance and video....Finally we discus...

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Repair | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. Sweet and salty →. Matteo, who has been helping me, has an uncle who repairs and restores old furniture. Gianni works in his workshop every day with Roberta, his niece, who has been working with wood since forever. Gianni has a small coffee machine in the garage next door, and in another workshop around the corner, a large saw that his father bought over sixty years ago. Gianni cries ‘who will repair all these things when I’m gone? Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Campagna | Futurecraft Institute Akrai

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Research by Tessa Zettel Akrai Residency 2013. Tintura madre →. Quince), as well as miscellaneous mushrooms, and a berry that is good for vitamin C. And by the riverside, swathes of feathery. Which we are collecting to make a. A medicinal infusion. The required 200 grams means two armfuls to us at this moment. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.