Talking about Making Kins TALkins W/ Andrea d’Amore: SUPER CAPSULA

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The language of art and experiential practices: Andrea d’Amore’s performative installation invites the audience to engage with making kin in a direct and multisensory way.

Andrea d’Amore explores conviviality and food as artistic practices, transforming each space into an opportunity for cohabitation and interdependence between human and non-human beings. In his work, the act of feeding becomes an aesthetic and relational act, in line with the Making Kin theme, where food is a medium of connection and a tool for rethinking forms of collective care.

A time capsule is a specially prepared container for storing objects or information, intended to be found at a future time’.
Within a space with 360° sound SUPER CAPSULA is a convivial experience, a place where guests in the act of consuming food will generate sounds. What will be generated in the present will return in the future where the past will be added to the participants’ present to generate their near future and thus swirling sum of time/sound after sum of time/sound, the guests will have the opportunity to define temporal relations until they reach climax atmospheres, tastes of eternity in a tasty real-time experiment on timelessness. Part of the SUPER CAPSULA installation is realised in collaboration with Panificio Davide Longoni.

It may look like a super capsule, but it is a SUPER CAPSULA!


SUPER CAPSULA is the third of the appointments of TALkins – Talking About Making Kin, a series of public meetings exploring the concept of kinship through different languages, perspectives and formats, promoted by BASE Milano in partnership with Felicia.


→ A set of seemingly familiar connections but re-written, re-assembled, to create, as we experience them, new relationships. TALkins: Talking about making kins is a series of encounters in which artists, curators, designers, philosophers, scientists, and experts in interspecies relations discuss “making kins.” Each TALkins appointment is a unique experience: From moments of participatory reflection to workshop practice, from collective to intimate sensory moments of direct interaction with food.

Bio

Born in Livorno, Andrea d’Amore has lived in numerous places that have profoundly influenced his journey, including Vallemaio, Florence, Diego Suarez (Madagascar), Mondovì, New York, Berlin, Maremma, Gallura, Casentinesi Forests National Park, Elba Island, Mexico City, and Prato. He graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Florence, completing his academic path with a thesis on Nothingness.

A football enthusiast, he drew inspiration from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s idea that “the top scorer is always the best poet of the year,” defining himself as a poet-striker. His culinary career began in social centers, later transitioning from gourmet kitchens to trattorias and agricultural cooking. Dissatisfied with the rigidity of professional kitchens, he chose to become an independent cook, working in informal and unconventional settings where cooking becomes an act of exploration and transformation.

He conceived “Appendice d’artista,” an experimental convivial format created for Villa Romana in Florence (2012–2022), and founded “Piano x 12,” a home-based space dedicated to conviviality and table-centered design. He also co-founded “cuicuocua,” a project that combines the creation of useless objects with live performances.

Credits

The first three TALkins are presented in partnership with Felicia.

Felicia is a brand by Andriani S.p.A. Società Benefit and B-Corp, a leading name in healthy pasta in Italy, specializing in high-quality, innovative, organic, and naturally gluten-free pasta made from whole grain cereals and organic legumes.

Felicia chose to partner with BASE Milano out of an affinity that goes beyond mere collaboration, finding a shared foundation in the intersection of culture, innovation, and sustainability. This alliance bridges physical and intellectual nourishment, celebrating the power of creative thinking to shape new paradigms and drive positive change.

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