Research Image for David Blandy’s project Gathering Storm, Delfina Politics of Food Residency
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 organisingopportunities 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 will launch 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, Moza Almatrooshi, Cocina CoLaboratorio, L. Sasha Gora, Joseph K. Kasau & Stéphane Kabila, Maya Marshak, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Derek Tumala
UK Associates:
David Blandy, Agnes Cameron, Annalee Levin, Andrew Merritt, Cherry Truluck