Material Friendships

Paolo Bosca

01/07/2026, 06.00 PM — 07.00 PM

Talk, Degustazione

Aperitif
MATERIAL FRIENDSHIPS
PAOLO BOSCA
ABC Zattere | 18.00-19.00

Approaching any research topic—whether a museum or a landscape marked by its wounds and its farmers—means being compelled to make a choice: distance or proximity, observation or contact, love or caution, friendship or rigour? This workshop presents a series of escape routes from the methodological conservatism that separates practice from theory, thought from labour, concepts from tools.The stories of a number of beverages will intersect with the personal stories of participants—present and absent, human and non-human alike—seeking to challenge the boundary between the personal and the philosophical, between the search for something, for oneself, or simply for intimacy with things and their reasons.

Image: Postcards of Giant Produce, 1909

PAOLO BOSCA
Paolo Bosca (Asti, 1996) is a philosopher based in Venice. Following a PhD in aesthetics, he has worked across food studies, creative writing, and contemporary art. Bringing together theoretical research and fieldwork, he often uses food as a medium for encounter and discussion. He has participated in collective research projects and artistic initiatives and is the author of numerous articles published in Italian and international journals. Fare utopia (nottetempo, 2026) is his first book, dedicated to rethinking utopia as a mode of inhabiting space.

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