FoodCultura is a non-profit, cultural, interdisciplinary and unique organization in its field. It is an open structure or platform from which to present and rethink the “FoodCultura” concept, not only from the perspective of food or nutrition, but also from artistic practice and anthropological research.
FoodCultura is a project in process that the Catalan artist Antoni Miralda started with the creation of the Food Pavilion for the Expo 2000 in Hanover, a pavilion dedicated to the culture of food through the connections between science, ritual, technology, art and tradition. In 2003, with Miralda and the cook Montse Guillén as representatives, FoodCultura became an association and, in 2007, the current private FoodCultura Foundation.
The FoodCultura concept explores questions about human identities, their universal rituals, their relationship with autochthonous memory, their processes of miscegenation, their preservation and cohesion strategies, their vehicles for transmitting or subverting traditions or contemporary social practices. In this sense, food is perhaps the first and most essential element of community cohesion, since it reflects social, economic and ideological conditioning and, at the same time, redefines them.
FoodCultura is a space dedicated to communication, research and the global history of food, customs, cultural experiences and art. An initiative for the development of an international network of collaboration and action that connects people and organizations to carry out projects in diverse communities.
MANIFESTO FOODCULTURA
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FoodCultura is a market and a stomach, a library and a mouth, a center of exchange and a brain, a laboratory and a language.
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FoodCultura is a platform in continuous digestion and permanent movement, an organic archive where the links between aesthetics, food and culture are rewritten.
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FoodCultura is a gastronomic utopia that compiles ancestral culinary knowledge, also exploring new poetics and food policies.
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FoodCultura is a collective research node, a viral community that spreads among the ruins of the traditional museum, beyond any physical coordinate, from all the esophagus and by means of any cover.
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FoodCultura is a dense web of events, performative actions and artistic proposals, a great ritual that invokes autochthonous memories, cultural experiences and human identities.
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FoodCultura is a network of international and cumulative collaboration, a structure open to the exchange of knowledge, a call to transmit or subvert the nutritional traditions from contemporary social practices.
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FoodCultura is a sensitive parliament, an agora of flavors, a public square where miscegenation processes are debated and manifested, as well as their popular preservation strategies.
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FoodCultura is a mobile work program that is in your city and in your body, in your street and in your language, a gargantuan buffet that invites you to exchange food and to reconsider what is at the bottom of all dishes.
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FoodCultura is a huge bazaar of rescued objects, of invented concoctions, of ceremonies to be discovered or encouraged.
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FoodCultura is a kitchen and a stomach, the bar of a bar and a mouth, a dining room and a brain, a festive agape and a tongue.
COME TO THE COOKERS, COME TO THE TABLE!