performingborders Pamphlet #5 – Slow Cooking

performingborders and Theatre in the Mill are excited to present Slow Cooking, a new multimedia podcast exploring the relationship between art making processes, communal food practices and contemporary colonial impacts around food and environmentalism.

In this first season, host Xavier de Sousa meets artists Estabrak / إستبرق in London (UK), Rebecca Moradalizadeh in Porto (Portugal), Guya & Untethered Magic in Ongata Rongai (Nairobi, Kenya), and Selina Thompson, Toni-Dee Paul and Sonia Sandhu in Bradford (UK). Together they spend the day buying food from local markets and independent shops, then cooking together and share it with you while discussing what brings these artists to the table.

They chew through a wide range of research and provocations, from art-making processes and food as a creative practice, to the impact of Western colonialism on seed-sharing practices and ancestral agriculture in indigenous communities in Kenya, to how the poetic and nurturing relationship with pomegranates in West Asia has been co-opted by Western militarization in the region.

Access the commission here: Slow Cooking

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Slow Cooking is commissioned by Theatre in the Mill, Migrant Actions Productions and performingborders. Supported by Untethered Magic, HowlRound Theatre Commons, Migrant Projects CIC and Bradford University. Additional funding by Arts Council England and Necessity Fund.