Larissa Sansour, Nation Estate, 2012. Film still.
Winter 2014
From F. T. Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurist Cookery to Gordon Matta-Clark’s conceptual restaurant to Michael Rakowitz’s Enemy Kitchen, artists have long employed food within their creative process and practice. In recent years, a host of cultural practitioners has been interrogating relationships between food and environmental, economic and social concerns, as well as notions of cooking and eating as performative acts and of dishes, recipes, and cookbooks as oft-contested markers of cultural memory.
Hospitality and conviviality are at the heart of Delfina Foundation. Founded in 1988 as the Delfina Studio Trust, which later became Delfina Foundation in 2007, the organisation has a long history in providing a “home” for artists to explore ideas, to engage in cross-cultural dialogue and to explore opportunities for artistic experimentation. Through our residency and public programme, Delfina Foundation will bring together artists, curators and critics from around the world to explore how artistic strategies have and can be used to address wide-ranging issues, in this case relating to food, agriculture, and the environment.
This programme will unfold over the course of four years at Delfina Foundation with one season each year devoted to The Politics of Food.
Our first season of The Politics of Food, curated in collaboration with Michael C. Vazquez, brings together 41 artists, activists, anthropologists, chefs, curators, scientists and writers from 15 countries.
Exhibition
The Politics Of Food
20/01/2014 — 27/02/2014
Exhibition
International Residents
Asunción Molinos Gordo
London: 13/01/2014 — 07/04/2014
Raed Yassin
London: 13/01/2014 — 01/04/2014
Michael C. Vazquez
London: 13/01/2014 — 06/04/2014
Candice Lin
London: 07/01/2014 — 31/01/2014
Leone Contini
London: 06/01/2014 — 07/02/2014
Elia Nurvista
London: 17/01/2014 — 21/02/2014
James Muriuki
London: 11/03/2014 — 06/04/2014
Maryam Jafri
London: 26/01/2014 — 07/04/2014
Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri
London: 24/01/2014 — 31/03/2014
Bisi Silva
London: 24/03/2014 — 06/04/2014
Michael Rakowitz
London: 29/03/2014 — 06/04/2014
Alessandra Saviotti
London: 12/03/2014 — 31/03/2014
Nat Muller
London: 18/03/2015 — 05/06/2015
Standart Thinking
London: 18/03/2015 — 05/06/2015
UK Associates
Mariana Meneses Romero
London: 13/01/2014 — 06/04/2014
Gayle Chong Kwan
London: 16/01/2014 — 01/04/2014
Sonya Dyer
London: 02/02/2014 — 06/04/2014
Cooking Sections
London: 02/02/2014 — 06/04/2014
Larissa Sansour
London: 24/01/2014 — 31/03/2014
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
London: 13/01/2014 — 06/04/2014
Public Programme
Workshop & Tasting: Uncontrolled Denominations
22/01/2014
Workshop
Subtleties and Warnings: Power and The Edible Grotesque
29/01/2014
Meal
In conversation: Tadasu Takamine and Jonathan Watkins
07/02/2014
Talk
The Future of Food
08/02/2014
Panel
This Is Not Cheese, It’s Dynamite
11/02/2014
Workshop
The Flamboyant Table: Rijsttafel Revisited
18/02/2014
Meal
Survival of the Fullest: Feeding and Sharing in Crisis Times
24/02/2014
Meal
Delfina Foundation at Art14
27/02/2014
Display
What Tongues?
01/03/2014
Performance
Climate Change and the Future of Food with Tamara Ben Ari
14/03/2014
Talk
We Are What We Eat – Approaching Cannibalism
Talk
Nothing Works As Designed with Alessandra Saviotti
27/03/2014
Talk
Ordinary Food
28/03/2014
Meal
The Culinary Turn
30/03/2014
Symposium
A Living Thing, A Dying Thing: Contemporary Artisanal Cheese and the Politics of Taste
02/04/2014
Meal
The Butcher of Belgravia: An Evening with Michael Rakowitz
04/04/2014
Meal
Maryam Jafri: Mouthfeel
21/03/2014 — 18/05/2014
Exhibition
In Conversation: Maryam Jafri and TJ Demos
15/04/2014
Talk
PLATFORM
Explore selected outcomes and documentation of the programme.
The Politics of Food
Installation photos of the first Politics of Food exhibition held at Delfina Foundation
Gallery
The Politics of Food: Candice Lin
Taking culinary revenge on the Koch brothers
Video
A Living Thing A Dying Thing
Professor Harry G. West on contemporary artisanal cheese and the politics of taste
Video
Presenting: Leone Contini
We revisit our 2014/15 artist-in-residence
Video