{"uid":"WsAYRH5IhuJ7kqyE","type":"artist","tags":["action","video"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Urbanofagia","summary":"\u201cI, Sao Paulo, see myself as a person, therefore I am a person.\nI am a schizophrenic one, I am many cities, many persons.\nThe vegetation is hair and beard on my skin. The spaces between buildings are the pores of my dermis.\nThe Metro is blood that flows through my arteries, always excited, always mad. Like the muzzle of an alligator, \nJacar\u00e9, who runs, hunts in a tunnel as wide as he is\u201d Writing notes\n\nUrbanofagia, 2020\nDocumentation of an action: video projection on a wall, (BR, subtitled ENG). \nDimension 2x1.5 meter.\n\nThe action will take place at Pivo in Sao Paulo, during my residency in autumn 2020. It's part of my research Imaginary Urbanism that investigates the agency of the citizens on Sao Paulo and of the city on me as a newcomer.\nAccording to the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Westerners see the other as an object, instead the Ameroindians as a Person. For the natives, trees, animals and even weather phenomena are persons. Cannibalizing means seeing yourself through someone else's point of view, assuming it. To know means to personify. \n\nFollowing the books of Viveiros de Castro on Amazonian cosmology, writing a text about the city of Sao Paulo as if it were a person, a person who turns to me and also talks about my \u201cfears\u201d of living in it, of being an outsider that with public art would like to help paulistanos to change their city.\nThe action consists of reading this text aloud in front of an audience and then eating it.","space":"The Mus\u00e9e des \u00e9gouts in Bruxelles, is a Sewer Museum where visitors can access and walk in some galleries of the sewer system: it's here that I want to project the video. This place draws a connection with my past as an hydraulic engineer, but also with the idea of digestion, of being inside the body of a city. Bruxelles was my home for three years before leaving in 2019 for a residency at FAAP in Sao Paulo. An alternative can be an underground tiny space\/tunnel in Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Alessio","surname":"Mazzaro","email":"basetz.m@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"YB2131926 passport","address":"via casino rosso 21\/a","city":"Camponogara","nacionality":"Italian","country_id":"113","birthdate":"1985-04-16T22:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1985-04-16T22:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+39 3490931341","web":"alessiomazzaro.com"}