Event overview
This event explores temporal and situative community building with meals: How do meals come to be in places that are neither private nor commercial?
This event is part of "Where is the Meal? A Roving and Participatory Event Series on Food, Place and Communities."
Where is the Meal? is a series of five events responding to the question of how meals relate to place, and its cultural, political, technological and legal conditions. Each event is comprised of a meal for all participants, designed collaboratively by the event organisers and two invited guests. Each individual event serves to both perform the topic of the meal, and engage the guests and audience into a relevant discussion.
This event explores temporal and situative community building through meals. Many meals take place in settings that are neither private households, nor restaurants or commercial spaces. Such settings may be community kitchens, neighbourhood meals or part of art projects. They provide unique opportunities for bringing people together, but they also operate in spaces that are difficult to classify and defy easy categorizations.
Legally, such spaces fall into a regulatory no-man's land, where they exist between the strict regulations of commercial kitchens and the lax rules of private meals. Socially, such meals create a group of eaters that straddles the borders of a private event, being a guest with expectations of a formal event and, oftentimes, a participant or audience of a performance. They also invite people that can have much or very little in common to the intimate experience of sharing food. Temporally, such meals are fleeting, but organized: They need to create their participants and audiences, but often disappear quickly.
What are the tensions that emerge when running a community kitchen, allotment or garden in a cultural or educational institution? The event will address these issues through the setting of a temporary meal with two guests, who both share with us their rich experiences in creating such meals and other community food ventures.
Guests: Marina Monsonís (workshop leader at The Kitchen community programme in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona), and Ros Gray, Reader in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2024 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
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