Derek Tumala, Porensiko ng Klimang Tropikal (Tropical Climate Forensics). Web-based exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Manila (MCAD-Manila). Launching July 2022 (2-year project). Image prototype.
Autumn 2022
Since 2014, Delfina Foundation’s programme The Politics of Food has worked with artists, activists, agronomists, artisans, bakers, butchers, chefs, economists, farmers, fermenters, foragers, historians, scientists, policy makers, nutritionists and yet more related practitioners, to interrogate the ethics and the global and local politics of food production, distribution and consumption. To date over 100 UK and international practitioners have contributed to this programme, through residencies, research and organising opportunities for the wider public to engage and contribute to the programme by way of collective meals, exhibitions, performances, walks, talks, workshops, pickings and a pop-up cafe.
In Autumn 2022, Delfina Foundation commences its fifth season of residencies and public programming focusing on The Politics of Food. As the most pressing issue of our time, this iteration will take as its focus the climate emergency, engaging with it through the specific lens of eco-social interdependence. Through a wide range of activities, the programme’s participants will take food as their entry point to explore the interconnections between the ecological crisis and our economic, social, cultural, and political crises. The climate emergency is an interdependent one, thus addressing our relation to food and its complex infrastructures is a critical component to the survival of both human and non-human species.
Our programme partner for Politics of Food in 2022 is Gaia Art Foundation, an initiative which facilitates cross-disciplinary projects that foster innovation and positive social change. Additional programme support from Yuanbo Liu.
Residencies
Wesam Al Asali
London: 08/10/2022 — 18/12/2022
Moza Almatrooshi
London: 19/09/2022 — 16/10/2022
Cocina CoLaboratorio
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
L. Sasha Gora
London: 12/09/2022 — 09/10/2022
Joseph K. Kasau & Stéphane Kabila
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Erin Li
London: 23/06/2022 — 23/12/2022
Maya Marshak
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Åsa Sonjasdotter
London: 26/09/2022 — 20/11/2022
Derek Tumala
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
UK Associates
David Blandy
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Agnes Cameron
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Annalee Levin
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Andrew Merritt
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Cherry Truluck
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Beth Kettel
London: 19/09/2022 — 18/12/2022
Public Programme
Wheatscapes and Culinary Ghosts
14/12/2022
Presentations
The Politics of Preservation
12/12/2022
Weather update: now online
Panel
MUTANT: rA/Ve
10/12/2022
Installation
Polyphonic Bodies II
10/12/2022
Tasting event
UK premiere: La Restanza + Q&A
02/12/2022
Screening
Agrarianism and Revolution Reading Group: Public Session
30/11/2022
Reading group
Tierra Sostenible (Sustainable Earth)
20/10/2022 — 15/12/2022
Workshop
Gathering Storm
29/11/2022
Game demonstration
Chemical, Organic, and Mixed: A speculative (re)visit to the soils of the Haughley Experiment
18/11/2022
Field Trip
Soil Stories
12/11/2022
At National Trust Quarry Bank
Workshop
THE ANIMIST ALMANAC: rudimentary rhythms
08/11/2022
Meal
Platform
Selected outcomes and documentation of the programme will be published on our PLATFORM and featured here.
Delfina Presents: Joseph K. Kasau and Stéphane Kabila
On art as a tool – not just to reflect, but also to act
Video
Cultivating Stories
Exploring archive, soil memory and artistic collaboration
Residency Project
Enunciation and food artivism
Notes and thoughts
Residency Project
Recipes for slow disaster
How do we rethink and rebuild lost landscapes
Residency Project
Agrarianism and Revolutions
Tracing paths of thought
Residency Project
Delfina Presents: Derek Tumala
On climate, mutation and rice
Video
Salt Stains: Appetites & Extinction
The Politics of Food: A podcast | Episode one
Audio
Mutate. Mutating. Mutant.
The Politics of Food: A podcast | Episode two
Audio
Qamar al-Din
The Politics of Food: A podcast | Episode three
Audio
Cherry Truluck: Malt, an oat flour macaron
A recipe from our UK associate artist
Residency Project
David Blandy: Gathering Storm
A collaborative world-building game – an outcome of research into colonial agricultural policies and legacies
Residency Project
Resident’s Room: Annalee Levin
Our UK associate artist reports from her ‘studio’ – a 17th century Somerset pub
Insight
Reading List: Politics of Food
Our residents and associates share their recommended reading
