This second iteration of the pastaworkshop was a more complex idea. Inspired (as always) by others and by grandmothers, the biggest inspiration this time around was the decades long work of the Cervi Institute in Gattatico (IT).
Our aim was to share the archives of Italian resistance that some of us had been working on, while mixing that with some anarchival methods and participatory approaches to collective singing and song learning. We also thought this might be a fun way to learn what it takes to organise as organisers: how can five people coming from different places get together for the first time ever and create an event that feeds, sings and shares stories with forty people - all in the space of one week?
The short answer is: with a lot of work, and a couple of mental breakdowns. You can check out the results below.
The long answer was presented by Liza Prins and I at the 2025 conference of the American Association for Italian Studies with a paper called “Singing Resistance: Performance-Based Approaches to Italian Studies”.
Oh, it took a lot of money also. For this, we thank all the funding bodies who awarded us their support:
- The Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) at UCC;
- The EuropeanCreative Connections Fund through UCC’s College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSS);
- The money of the 2024 Faculty of Humanities Thesis Prize, given to my work, The Magical Atlas of Italian Sharecropping.
We couldn’t have fed all these people without you.
Our aim was to share the archives of Italian resistance that some of us had been working on, while mixing that with some anarchival methods and participatory approaches to collective singing and song learning. We also thought this might be a fun way to learn what it takes to organise as organisers: how can five people coming from different places get together for the first time ever and create an event that feeds, sings and shares stories with forty people - all in the space of one week?
The short answer is: with a lot of work, and a couple of mental breakdowns. You can check out the results below.
The long answer was presented by Liza Prins and I at the 2025 conference of the American Association for Italian Studies with a paper called “Singing Resistance: Performance-Based Approaches to Italian Studies”.
Oh, it took a lot of money also. For this, we thank all the funding bodies who awarded us their support:
- The Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) at UCC;
- The EuropeanCreative Connections Fund through UCC’s College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSS);
- The money of the 2024 Faculty of Humanities Thesis Prize, given to my work, The Magical Atlas of Italian Sharecropping.
We couldn’t have fed all these people without you.
The Pasta Workshop
December 2024
Walk-in Workshop and Collective Singing
Organised as part of my residency at:
The Guesthouse Project, Cork (IRE)
by:
Marta Pagliuca Pelacani (University College Cork)
Giulia Morlando (University of Amsterdam)
Mattia Papp
Lorenzo Manzotti
Liza Prins (Northumbria University)
Ph by: Andy Ingamells
Video Documentation: Christian O’Shea
