Cooking Sections: The Empire Remains Shop, Delfina Foundation offsite exhibition, 2016. Photos: Tim Bowditch
Summer 2016
Markets and Movements
In summer 2016, Delfina Foundation’s The Politics of Food series will enter its third season. Since 2014, this programme has brought together over 70 artists, activists, anthropologists, agronomists, chefs, curators, scientists and writers from 32 countries through residencies, events and exhibitions. The first season in winter 2014 introduced a number of general environmental, economic and social concerns that have guided the overall programme, while the second season in spring 2015 specifically explored the relationship between food and three sub-themes: Sex, Diet & Disaster.
This third season of The Politics of Food, subtitled Markets and Movements will continue to deepen our investigation of the theme. Over twelve weeks, we will work with artists, curators and thinkers to investigate the production and distribution of food. We will explore complex and urgent issues including, but not limited to, agricultural labour and seasonal migration; developments in biotechnological food sciences; food sovereignty and heritage, from grains to recipes to production methods; how food features in radical collective political movements as well as the increase of individual consumer choice and its impact on the wider global food economy.
Offsite exhibition
The Empire Remains Shop
04/08/2016 — 04/11/2016
Exhibition
As part of this exhibition the following five artists will be in residence at Delfina Foundation as they participate in the exhibition’s programme:
Annalee Davis
London: 23/07/2016 — 05/08/2016
Shahmen Suku
London: 01/09/2016 — 22/09/2016
Joni Taylor
London: 18/08/2016 — 31/08/2016
FRAUD – Fran Gallardo & Audrey Samson
London: 18/08/2016 — 26/09/2016
International Residents
Amy Franceschini
London: 01/08/2016 — 14/08/2016
Thomas Pausz
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Deepa Bhasthi
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Fernando Garcia-Dory
London: 18/08/2016 — 31/08/2016
Serkan Taycan
London: 23/08/2016 — 18/09/2016
Tomáš Uhnák
London: 18/08/2016 — 31/08/2016
UK Associates
Kathrin Böhm
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Chris Fite-Wassilak
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Jane Levi
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Laura Wilson
London: 27/06/2016 — 18/09/2016
Public programme
On Para-Institutions: Fernando Garcia-Dory and Andrea Phillips in Conversation
14/07/2016
Talk
Supper Club: Seeds of Time
13/08/2016
Meal
Unbounded Mono-tonic
25/08/2016
Performance
Invisible Gardening
26/08/2016
Workshop
Markets and Movements Weekend
07/09/2016 — 11/09/2016
Programme
PLATFORM
Explore selected outcomes and documentation of the programme.
Cooking Sections: The Empire Remains Shop
On their public installation and programme considering the global circulation of food
Video
COOKING SECTIONS: The Empire Remains Shop
Photos from the installation in the heart of Marylebone
Gallery
Delfina Presents: Amy Franceschini
Exploring cultures and politics of seed and grains
Video
Markets and Movements Weekend
Photos from the pop up cafe culminating our 3rd Politics of Food season
Gallery
Markets and Movements
On the artists, activities and ideas that formed the third season of ‘The Politics of Food’
Video
The Tour of The Question: Cheese, Family and Revolution
Chris Fite-Wassilak explores memory and authenticity through his experiences of two cheeses
Article
In Conversation: Thomas Pausz
Our Politics of Food UK associate artist on his experimental process working with waste materials
Interview
In Conversation: Chris Fite-Wassilak
On cheese and authenticity
Interview
In Conversation: Deepa Bhasthi (Forager Collective)
On food myths and fads
Interview
