[-empyre-] writing from Buffalo: Coalesce Lab

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Nicole wrote <snip>
I should add that WFiM is named after an exhibition that I organized in
2011, which looked at artist cookbooks and recipes and featured works by
Tattfoo Tan, Robin Kahn, Counter Kitchen, Isabelle Lumpkin, Leah Rosenberg,
Joy Garnett and many other artists who I continue to follow, work with, and
write about.
<snip>




Dear Nicole, Your work is incredibly fascinating and I was particularly excited to
see how you have merged the areas of food, art, racial and economic disparity,
and justice together.  I am teaching in a cross-disciplinary art
department where so many students are seeking to merge areas of interest and
they often are beside themselves when thinking about how they can apply their
theoretical and course work within the university to real life situations.
 On Tuesday I am going to share your work with them.  Thank you so
much for posting this.  
 

I did want to ask you a bit more about WFIM.  Can you give us some background
about the exhibition and if there is any documentation somewhere?  It is a
like a fabulous idea.  Where was it held?  
 

To Amanda and the rest of you.  I am at University of Buffalo at the opening of Paul
Vanouse’s Art and Biology lab and biology studio classroom (Coalesce) for the next couple of
days.  I met two or three people here who mentioned that they have been
enjoying lurking in on the Food and Art discussion.  I encouraged them to
stop lurking and join in.  Hopefully they will!  Just to let you know
that although our membership has been quiet this month there are a lot of folks out there
who have been enjoying this discussion.  
 

I am struck at this morning, as I get ready to participate in an Art and Biology
workshop run by Zbigniew Oksiuta <http://www.oksiuta.de/> who is giving
the workshop on biological habitat.  I could not help but notice that
artists working in biology/the environment/and art  are using similar strategies that the
Art-Food-Tech artists incorporate:  mapping, visualization, research, hands on
experimentation, social justice, education, community advocacy and so much
more.  I am wondering if there are any other artists, curators, or
technicians on our list who are working cross-disciplinarily who use similar
Approaches?   I am just wondering here if we could think broadly for a moment about art practice and social justice.

Renate




On 3/23/16, 12:24 PM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Nicole J. Caruth" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of ncaruth at withfoodinmind.org> wrote:

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