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Workshop / Installation

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Food is material, yet it has the power to invoke feelings of both desire and disgust. In this workshop I invite participants to write a memory of: a fond memory of consuming food, a memory of disgust and repugnance in relation to food, and a formative sensory memory of preparing food. I provide craft materials to write and display participant's memories alongside my own curation of poems, photographs, objects, and technologies of food. Throughout the workshop I use highlighters to collate commonalities between participant's written excerpts and invite everyone to reflect on our ways of knowing food, its sensory material aspects and how we consume it. Certain types of food are endangered already with a movement to protect heirloom and indigenous varieties from being bred-out by industrial agriculture. In the anthropocene not only animals but specific foods that rely on industrial food production will also not be available for consumption for example bananas, coffee, avocado and chocolate. Activism and art based practice oriented to food may enact both awareness and open up a space for dialog about the kind of food futures we all want to create by reflecting on our own memories.