Canedicoda (Giovanni Donadini, born 1979 in Treviso, Italy) is a Milan-based multi-disciplinary artist active in music, performance, design and fashion fields. He developed a rich, personally distinctive universe that is constantly changing but always immediately recognisable. A pivotal figure bringing and spreading to Italy several innovative and liminal currents of artistic, stylistic and musical pursuit, his experience includes a vast number of projects in cooperation with record labels, non-profit spaces, groups and artists both in Italy and beyond. Since 2003 Canedicoda has developed his own personal research on language, style and method, creating his own label. Canedicoda is also active in the field of music under the pseudonym of Ottaven and carries out research on the sound, and the body as a medium of expression of actions and situations created by the music through repetitive gestures of performative matrix.
Among consolidated artistic collaborations: Matteo Castro, Roberta Mosca, Valentina Lucchetti,
Luigi Presicce,
Kinkaleri,
Alessandro Bosetti, Anna Maria Ajmone, Cristina Rizzo,
Carlos Casas, Jungen Tagen, Dennys Tyfus,
Renato Grieco/kNN. He teaches Textile design at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and Science and technologies of materials at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
