When Food Becomes Activism
by Jesse Connuck
- Author(s)
- Jesse Connuck
- Publication
- London : frieze, 2022
- Scope
- 15 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.
- Carrier
Article on the chocolate sculptures by the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC) & Renzo Martens and his Institute for Human Activities (IHA), on La Granja Transfronteriza (Transborder Farmlab), an initiative founded in 2010 by Torolab and on Annalee Davis's performance (bush) Tea Services (2016), that begins with the broken shards of pottery she found scattered across her family's property near Barbados - land that was formerly a sugar plantation and that is nowhome to a working dairy farm as well as the Fresh Milk art platform which Davis founded in 2011. This article first appeared in frieze 205 with the headline Pork Trotters, Bay Leaves And Chocolate.With an appendix on Rijksacademie resident 2022: Fransix Tenda Lomba and his project Le choc est là’. The double meaning of the title refers to the cultural, economic, political, social and geopolitical shocks in the cocoa chain, which Fransix traces from the different places of origin of cocoa to the world of consumers.
- Person as subject
- CATPC, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, IHA, Renzo Martens ;Thomas Leba, Cedrick Tamasala, Annalee Davis, Torolab, Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Rodolfo Argote, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Enrique Jiménez, Ana Martínez Ortega, Shijune Takeda, Fransix Tenda Lomba
- Keywords
- (de)colonisation
- Geographical location
- Congo
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
- Remarks
- print, in folder Decolonize Culture
