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The Open Kitchen. Food networks in an emergency situation

with Marina Monsonís, the Cabanyal cooking, Resistencia Migrante Disidente and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial

The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty.

The MACBA Kitchen emerged as a co-thinking and culinary action project in the context of the current ecosocial crisis. At present, new questions arise, as well as the desire to listen to and support solidarity networks linked to agroecology that fight for the right to food in the aftermath of the DANA storm, which has had a very strong impact on part of the Valencian territory.

As a group, we are moved by the different forms of people-led organisations related to food, such as cooperatives, associations and collectives that are working to provide the neighbourhood with climate justice criteria in this emergency situation. But above all, we think that at this moment it is essential to build solidarity with anti-racist and migrant collectives, such as Resistencia Migrante Disidente, who are supporting migrants and people in irregular administrative situations, who have become even more vulnerable in this emergency.

Despite being the workforce of sectors such as agricultural food production, migrant communities are suffering from a lack of access to basic state services and support, as well as anti-migrant racist violence that has increased since the onset of this catastrophe. Industrial food systems and the precariousness of migrant workers are also both a cause and a consequence of the eco-social crisis.

For all these reasons, we invite you to a meeting and snack to listen, develop, analyse and identify the mutual aid strategies that can be interwoven with cooking and food in our spaces alongside the collectives that, through action, care and critical thinking, have organised themselves to cook and provide food to the most affected populations in València.

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The Open Kitchen with with Marina Monsonís, the Cabanyal cooking, Resistencia Migrante Disidente and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial. Image courtesy MACBA.

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