The Gramounce (ES)
Landscape Cooking
August 4th – August 10th 2024
The Gramounce Spain
Inês and Kevin are members of The Gramounce, a collective researching food-based art and contemporary politics. The Gramounce pursues the reconceptualisation of the world through food, reframing a foodscape reality where to develop an artistic practice. Through alternative education, residencies, workshops, and a supper club, the collective studies food as a valid discipline in the arts and academia, understanding food as foundational to any world-building exercise.
https://www.instagram.com/thegramounce/
Inês Coelho da Silva is a Portuguese artist and researcher. Thinking mainly through sculpture and food-making, she identifies the kitchen table as a multi-layered topos for reflecting upon shared traditions, identities and emotions, while thinking about the simultaneous acts of eating and being eaten as forms of care. Between crockery and tablecloths, her visual poems open discussions on local foodscapes, overlooked ecosystems and opportunities for interspecies symbiosis in a shared world.
https://www.instagram.com/ines.coelho.da.silva/
Kevin Bellò is an Italian curator and researcher investigating edible knowledge, and a co-founder of the pan-European art collective Sympoietic Society. By curating through cooking, writing and interdisciplinary co-creation, their work suggests alternative intra and inter-species collaboration formats, where storytelling intertwines with documentation to review discourses around history and futures. Their focus on food opens to ecological and political reflections while promoting cognitive justice and developing practices of care.
https://www.instagram.com/kevin.bello.art/
The Workshop
The landscapes that surround us are webs of living organisms: animals, microbes, plants, fungi, and other beings’ lives entangling infinitely and converting energies everywhere. Since prehistoric times, humans have been cooking, fermenting, and transforming food in deep attunement with what they found around. But are we able to see our surrounding landscapes not only as sources of food or habitat but as means of cooking as well? What happens when we leave our domestic kitchens and start cooking by using these wild powers?
Landscape Cooking is a workshop in which we explore the possibilities of cooking with the landscape. For the length of this workshop, we will disregard the modern technologies of our kitchens and draw ourselves closer to nature's own energy flows and transforming possibilities. As a group, we will ask ourselves: how may we collaborate with the flowing waters of a river, a pile of sun-warmed rocks or yeast-rich fruits in order to create mutual nourishment? How can we embrace a more-than-human agency in the processes of eating and digesting?
Our workshop seeks to investigate new routes through which to surpass the natural-cultural binomial and instead embrace the world as a living web with which we are intertwined.
Housing
Accommodation & food are included
We can accommodate for special catering
All participants sleep in dormitories
To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org
Education
Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs
Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet
All workshops are taught in English
The number of participants is limited to 22
Activities
Weekly campfire, exhibition & guided tour of the Domaine
Conferences from designers throughout the week
The famous Wednesday Porky’s party