En Giro y a la Olla

En Giro y a la Olla

This project proposes the creation of a dialogue between processes related to food, ethnographic research and bodily practices linked to a specific social and cultural context, valuing the diversity of knowledge about food production, movements, embodied practices and experiences.

Going through the experiences recorded in the body, it will seek to generate and unfold questions, bringing to the scene different culinary stages, as well as the historicity of food from its origins (agriculture, the movements of the body linked to sowing and harvesting) to the processes of transformation (cuisine), hospitality, and (re) meaning of food.

This residency takes place in Xochimilco from October 2021 to February 2022

Laura Szwarc

performing artist, writer, art educator, cultural activist. Through her research and creations, she displays experiences that stimulate poetic and critical thinking, as well as collaborative work in communities. She integrates and directs the Akántaros Cultural Association: intercultural and transdisciplinary entity. Her choreographies and performances have been carried out in different spaces and festivals; some of them are: Ellas Crean Festival, Fringe Festival, Almagro Classic Theater Festival, Word Festival, Bardo Festival. She has had the chance to share her research and creations in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and Ecuador.

Suraia Abud Coaik

culinary artist, cook and researcher in food cultures from anthropology and visual arts, approaching food from a transdisciplinary, collaborative and holistic perspective.

She carries out projects from agricultural practices, culinary memories with different generations and latitudes, always linking the social life of objects, migrations, family economic relations and food policies. She has been able to showcase her practices in various festivals, some of them are: Arab Fest, Phot Aix Photography Festival and ICAF (Iwaya Community Art Project).

Suraia lives between Madrid, Beirut and Montevideo.