The Open Kitchen. Map of edible tensions
with Marina Monsonís, Paisanaje and Ruralitzem
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.
At the start of its seventh year, The Kitchen at MACBA restarts the project of archiving and showing how the project is sustained, through a ‘collective mapping of tensions’. The meeting will be an opportunity to exchange ideas and trace alternative routes to agribusiness, exploring forms of food systems that are more sustainable and connected to the community. We will share an afternoon snack with the Paisanaje and Ruralitzem collectives, who have experience working on collective mappings of sustainable food systems through activism and art.
The Kitchen has always been committed to agroecology and food sovereignty, but not all the food we cook and eat is grown and marketed according to environmental justice criteria. We often encounter tensions, contradictions and questions, due to the fact that the members of the group have very diverse cultural backgrounds and customs. Moreover, the businesses in our neighbourhood, both those that have been rooted in the territory for generations and those that in recent decades have brought us food from all over the globe, nurture communities that resist against strong speculative and capitalist territorial dynamics.
The Kitchen connects with agroecological projects and collectives, as well as with neighbourhood shops that do not meet these criteria, in order to promote a food system that is not only agroecological, but also culturally appropriate. By inhabiting these contradictions and avoiding purist approaches and discourses, its aim is to always promote reflection and improvement. It is also nourished by exchanges with urban vegetable gardens, by the Mobile Garden project, and by the food that each of us generously contributes.
At this meeting we will be delighted to share a delicious afternoon snack with Paisanaje and Ruralitzem, two collectives related to sustainable food systems that, from a position within activism and art, work on collective mapping and trace alternative routes to agribusiness.
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