Conchadas
Diverse locations
2019-Ongoing
‘Conchadas’ are invitations to eat shellfish and afterward make crafts with food’s leftovers. Aiming to create settings that blend normative distinctions over natural and cultural practices, ‘Conchadas’ are series of gatherings for collective interaction, in th form of dinners, that entangle cycles of consumption and digestion with the possibil ities of pouring time, labor and meaning in materials that otherwise will be disregarded trashed. Thinking in the eating behaviors of Bivalves –Mussels, oysters, scallops, clams– a filterfeeders that absorb and clean water in order to get food, sipping on plankton, organic particles, but also impressive amounts of microplastics and ocean pollution. Eatin shellfish can be a transcorporeal practice, that ripples back toxicity to our own bodies, within a tasteful and fleshy encounter in which anthropogenic, and biological materialities are intimately entangled.
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