Institut Ramon LLull

Food is Permitted in the Gallery Space, From Market to..., & Inmarchitables at Cuchifritos Gallery

Arts.  New York, 18/08/2018

 

The project Whose Language Does the Produce Speak? Conversations Between La Boqueria and the Essex Street Market and its resulting exhibition in New York ask the participating artists to reflect on their creative practices and respond to this in connection to new food trends, waste and recycling, conspicuous consumption, urban development, and tourism and “touristification.” Similarly, it asks participating artists to use performance, film, photography, printmaking, and writing, as active platforms that can facilitate collaborations amongst them, vendors, and patrons; and even intimate rendezvous between the artists and the markets themselves. 

This project is presented by Artists Alliance Inc., FoodCultura, and Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with Center for Book Arts




Food is Permitted in the Gallery Space 
Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

Thursday, August 16 from 5:30-7p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY

RSVPhttp://bit.ly/2MzeG69
 
Close your office or leave work by 5:00 PM to sample some dishes made by the artists, the curator, and the staff of Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI), as part of the programming for Whose Language Does the Produce Speak? Conversations Between La Boqueria and the Essex Street Market.

Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI), invites you to an early dinner at Cuchifritos + Project Space. And yes, food and drink are permitted in the art gallery space! Listen to Catalonian artists Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet, and their New York counterparts Alicia Grullón, Enrique Figueredo, Antonia Pérez, and Harley Spiller talk about their practices and their experiences at the Essex Street Market. Join in the conversation, or ask questions about the recipes served. The format of this event mixes the quintessential act around which countless dialogues and ideas have traditionally emerged in societies: eating, with the customary artist presentation. In this case, both are melded into one organic happening in a spirit of conviviality. Food is Permitted in the Gallery Space is inspired by Food Cultura, a project initiated by Antoni Miralda and Montse Guillén.

Be sure to RSVP herehttp://bit.ly/2MzeG69

Image: Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet, @ Forever Blowing Bubbles
 
From Market to...
A performance by Alicia Grullón & Antonia Pérez

Saturday, August 18 from 11a-8p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY

The Essex Street Market and all that it contains: produce, vendors, stalls, packaging, shoppers and history will be embodied by a performer, who will be gradually encased in crocheted plastic until no longer visible. Taking into consideration re-zonings and hyper-gentrification in New York City, Grullón and Pérez ask, "What will remain and emerge in the community from this transformation/transmutation?"
 
Inmarchitables
A project by Bernat Daviu & Joana Roda Calvet

Saturday, August 18, 6-8p
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY

The Inmarchitables (fadeless) project assumes amaranth—a staple food within Mayan and Aztec cultures that was later banned by Spanish colonists—as a symbol of what persists; those things that resist the efforts of "progress" to make everything that is apparently not useful or productive disappear. 
 
During their residency at Cuchifritos, Daviu and Calvet have been collecting items discarded by Market vendors. On Saturday, August 18, in part from these materials, the artists will present a sculpture in the shape of a skyscraper made with amaranth. In the tradition of Mayans and Aztecs who consumed edible sculptures of the gods in order to redeem their sins, all who visit the gallery space will be invited to partake.  

All upcoming programs are part of Whose Language Does the Produce Speak? Conversations Between La Boqueria and the Essex Street Market, a project presented by Artists Alliance Inc., Food Cultura, and Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with Center for Book Arts.  
 
Artists Alliance Inc. is a 501c3 not for profit organization located on the Lower East Side of New York City within the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. This program is made possible by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. We thank the New York City Economic Development Corporation and individual supporters of Artists Alliance Inc for their ongoing support. Special thanks go to our team of dedicated volunteers, without whom this program would not be possible.

Food is Permitted in the Gallery Space 

Thursday, August 16 from 5:30-7pm
 
From Market to...
Saturday, August 18 from 11am-8pm
 
Inmarchitables
Saturday, August 18, 6-8p

Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: 120 Essex Street (inside the Essex Market) NY, NY

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