T.L. Cowan, Luiza Prado, Helen Pritchard, Jas Rault, The Kitchen Network: Anti-Fascism and Plants
Transmediale 2024 Reunion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Photo by Laura Fiorio CC BY-NC-SA
Where: Online, via zoom
Booking: Booking required
Artist, activist and researcher Luiza Prado De O. Martins will join Engagement Curator Rebecca Beinart in conversation around the work they are developing as part of Primary’s spring Nourishment season.
Luiza Prado’s The Kitchen Network delves into the politics of food as entertainment, exploring how it's become detached from the realities of its production and its role in climate collapse. In this session we invite you to engage in the themes of Luiza’s multi-layered practice and the project and join in a wider conversation considering how artists navigate and highlight complex geopolitical issues.
Luiza uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnect with wider issues of class, gender, and geography. With soaring energy and food costs, labour shortages, the cost-of-living crisis and ongoing supply chain issues, we eat with our eyes and ears. Food as entertainment is a geopolitical issue, masked and filtered through phone lenses to perform wealth, virtue, goodness, practicality, ease and skill. Unfolding through performance and presented as the final reality TV food competition on Earth, The Kitchen Network uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnection to wider issues of class, gender, and geography.
Luiza Prado De O. Martins is an artist, activist and researcher. Her work moves between installation and food, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between food, infrastructures and technology, and questions what structures and process are needed for collective concerns of care. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen.
Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” narrates, through a series of artworks, the extinction and later reappearance of an ancient contraceptive, aphrodisiac and spice called silphium. She has exhibited and performed work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Savvy Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others.
Access: This session will be held on Zoom. Otter.ai will be active for anyone wishing to use live transcript or closed captions functions. Please get in touch with colette@weareprimary.org any other access needs in advance.
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Kaleidoscope Network:
This is a private event for current members of the Kaleidoscope Network only.
This event has been organised by Primary for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects(Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). Primary residentsand members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.
Eastside Projects makes art public. Based in Birmingham, they are an artist-run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental art practices and demonstrating ways in which art may be useful as part of society. Extra Ordinary People is Eastside Projects’ Associate membership scheme. EOP works with artists, curators and art-writers to support the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities and projects.
Spike Island is a dynamic arts centre that supports, produces and presents contemporary art and culture. A short walk from Bristol city centre. Spike Island Associates is a dynamic network of artists, curators, designers, writers and thinkers at all stages of their career. Members span multiple disciplines and share a common interest in collaboration, experimentation and a desire to learn new skills and have new experiences.
The NewBridge Project is an artist-led space that supports artists, curators and communities through the provision of space for creative practice, curatorial opportunities and an ambitious artist-led programme of exhibitions, commissions, artist development and events.