A collaborative, interdisciplinary, experimental, multi-sensorial, multidimensional, eco feminist art happening engaging all five senses – the spiritual included – based on the act of eating and honouring food (in this case of a melon).

In Summer 2022 Motoko came to visit Liguria From Oakland and called me, this is what happened next!

Cantaloupe – Howling Wolfes – Mary, Motoko and Claudi together for a fruit, for a ritual, for a performance. Intuitively improvised out of natural vitality, for the holistic, creative, spiritual, energetic, circular, experimental, intimate, transformative, interdisciplinary, sensorial, magical, poetic, participatory, interactive, stimulating, experiential, sacred, divine — for life. The Melon magically connects us to the Moon and to Venus, to water and to love, to fertility and creativity, to beauty and longevity, to death. Melons, symbol for feminine abundance, teach us how to receive with ease and grace. Melon helps us in times when we are struggling in our life, it helps us to focus our energy and attention. When an opportunity arises take it, don’t belittle yourself, life is being good to you.

Curiosity about the Cantaloupe melon

The vine’s ancient origin was most likely Persia or India, but varieties of the melon species had been grown in the Mediterranean for millennia. It is said that Columbus introduced the cantaloupe to the Americas. Cantaloupe seeds were planted and shared with the native population who received the new fruit with great enthusiasm.

The story goes that the cantaloupe gets its name from Cantalupo di Sabina, a town in the Sabine Hills, where the papacy had a country estate. Cantalupo, itself, simply means “howling wolves” in Italian, and it’s said that the luscious melon was first grown there, for the popes, before picking up the name and spreading around Europe. Pope Paul II became famously obsessed with melons during his reign, and the juicy fruit were his ultimate undoing. The pope’s chef published a cookbook in 1470 explicitly recommending that melons be eaten as appetizers, since eating them on a full stomach could have serious consequences. The next year, Paul II ate “two good big melons” in one sitting, and then died.

Piazza Benza Lecchiore, Dolcedo

BIOS
Motoko Honda
pianist/composer/sound artist
With stylistic influences ranging from jazz to Indonesian music and contemporary prepared & electrified
piano, Honda is a musical force of nature, bringing a unique creative sound to her solo works and wide-
ranging collaborations. Her music transports audiences on sonic adventures that transcend the boundaries
and conventions of traditional contemporary music concerts.
As an active pianist-composer, band leader, and interdisciplinary creator, Honda has been commissioned to
produce a multitude of works that have been presented at major festivals and venues by major organizations
throughout the U.S. and abroad. She also frequently appears as a guest performer-lecturer at various
universities and institutions worldwide to share her unique perspective on graphic scores, contemporary
composition techniques, improvisation, interdisciplinary/collaborative media works, electro-acoustic
aesthetics, and extended piano techniques.
www.motokohonda.com
patreon.com/motokohonda
Mary Albanese
Born in Bordighera, employed for over 30 years in a governmental health institution, she was suspended
from work when she expressed her constitutional right to look after her wellbeing in the most suitable way, to
her. Mary is now on a discovery journey of her talents.
From the love for philosophy to the vegetable garden, to the kitchen, to the secret of living a free life, Mary is
the founder of hOMexperience (Healthy Mystic Food) where she offers rituals of eating to understand the
other side of nutrition.
mary191265@gmail.com
tel. 3299807369
Claudi Piripippi
video/performance/installation/interactive poetry
I am a multidisciplinary conceptual artist. My cultural formation developed in Germany, Italy, the UK and the
USA. But my academic experience could not be complete without the knowledge gathered from nature and
from an itinerant lifestyle that took me from rural to urban environments in the pursue of art and love.
Through an eco-feminist lens, I express my deep love for Mother Earth by choosing to live and make art in a
responsible and ethical way as a resistance to mainstream consumerist culture. My latest work explore my
feminist gender fluid eco femininity by using the body with all its senses to creatively disrupt and reeducate
myself away from patriarchal inculcations.
Whilst my art practice might well be my personal emancipatory process weaved into the environmental crisis,
I voice my explorations through performances that are either solitary or participatory, and through videos that
intimately depict the tension between private and public keeping/caring.
And by the way, my work as been exhibited, awarded and appreciated, and not, internationally!
www.claudiaborgna.org
www.claudiaborgna.com

Teatro dell’Attrito, Imperia