ALL-NATURAL

Location: Ex Uffici SEAT, Corso Mortara 24, Torino, within Paratissima 2024.

Date: 30th October - 3rd November 2024

The longstanding Share Festival, produced by The Sharing, in its 18th edition presents All-Natural, thematic that poses a pressing question for Turin and the entire world: is there a breath of air in the heavy veil that divides nature and technology?
The event highlights six international works selected for the Share Prize and also welcomes  the project of Versificatore, a selection from Artmaker Gallery, the creations from Share Campus students and other Special Projects.

Talk Program

Wednesday 30th November, 6.30 p.m.
Opening Share Festival XVIII and  Ceremony Award Share Prize XVI
with Authorities Greetings, Bruce Sterling, Chiara Garibaldi, Jasmina Tesanovic
Stage S, entrance 4

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Friday 1st November, 7-8 p.m.
Artificial prophecies, new versifiers for new futures
with Bruce Sterling, Silvia Casolari, Fabrizio Gargarone

Casa Live

For the XVIII edition of Share Festival, we make this demand because we know it's impossible

Here in glamorous Torino -- a city known for its cordial support of "every form of art" -- we can't take one natural, untainted breath.  Not only is the planet's whole atmosphere polluted with Greenhouse gases -- here in Torino, thanks to our industrial heritage and our specific geographic climate, we're particularly badly off from an all-pervasive haze of PM2.5 micrometer pollution particles, including metals, combustion products and even agricultural dust.  As you read this, we breathe that.

And yet, at the very same time, our Italian province of Piedmont is world-famous for its devotion to hand-crafted, artisanal "Slow Foods" grown from the unique plant and animal varieties of the fruitful Italian soil.

In our forthcoming Festival, we plan to tackle this contradiction headlong -- through our favorite medium of technology art.   Can this become a dialectic instead of a contradiction?   Can we witness net.art that is all about birds, bugs, bees and natural local landscapes?   Can we interact with robots made of natural woods, sculptures digitally carved from marble, and interactive artworks composed of horn, reeds, seashells, bamboo, straw, bones, fossils, or better yet, severely imperiled natural materials entirely unique to the artist's own region in the world?

It's not enough to "defend the environment" -- how can natural materials infiltrate tomorrow's unnatural substance and take some terrible, weedy revenge?

Please do your best for us.  We need a breath of fresh air!

The six selected works will be exhibited during Share Festival XVIII from 30th October to 3rd November 2024.

︎︎︎ click here to find out more about Share Prize XVI