The Kitchen

La Cuina del MACBA (MACBA’s Kitchen) is a space for meeting and collective learning to exchange knowledge and experiences in the kitchen. This is a situated kitchen, conceived as a response to the ongoing climate emergency and food crisis. Urgent issues such as the end of fossil fuels, the depletion of natural resources, food sovereignty or sustainable consumption are addressed through careful and intentional reflection because the current eco-social crisis asks that we stop, change pace and seek out alternatives that allow us to imagine other possible futures. 

In MACBA’s Kitchen, we believe in the importance of slow cooking. It should be a safe space from which to inhabit complexity and learn to better coexist with our contradictions, critically revising culinary memory and tradition without losing sight of its colonial heritage, which is deeply embedded into our customs. The participants’ exchange of wisdom allows for the unfolding of a system of knowledge without hierarchies. The questions, ‘What do we want to learn?’ and ‘What do we want to teach?’ determine the content of the workshops, which are held fortnightly throughout the year.

Since November 2018, the MACBA Kitchen has used an ecofeminist perspective to address a wide variety of issues: trash-cooking, recipe hacking, local and seasonal products, neglected ingredients, weeds, fermentations, agroecology, the social distinction between women cooks and chefs, dining rituals or overfishing, among many others. 

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Marina Monsonís

Marina Monsonís is a visual artist who works with hybrid and heterogeneous processes of social transformation rooted in territories, in collective, community and pedagogical projects that relate marine sciences, place-based design, gastronomy, graffiti, radical geography, ethnography and critical, oral and gestural memory. She works on projects that connect the kitchen with political, critical, social and transgenerational aspects to create debates and transmit knowledge about the complexities and conflicts that inhabit km 0. She is interested in the coexistence of radical spaces where people become constellated in research, techniques, local and global knowledge, old and emerging, maintaining a generous and enriching ecosystem, where joy, exchange and harmony dominate the table. She has directed The Kitchen at MACBA since it began in November 2018.

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