Cooking Sections Serves Up Art, Eco-Activism & Local Food
May 1, 2024
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Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual, the artistic duo, blend art and activism to explore local ecosystems, capitalism, and food. They discuss the impact of modern diets on global landscapes and work towards reinventing local foodways through commoning. Topics include the ecological harm of salmon farming, intertidal cohabitation projects, and community-based solar initiatives.
Cooking Sections blend art with activism to reimagine local foodways and challenge harmful industrial practices.
Their ClimaVore project aims to replace industrial salmon farming with intertidal commons, engaging various stakeholders for ecological innovation.
Deep dives
Exploring Food, Art, and Activism
Alon Schwab and Danielle Fernandez Pasquel, known as Cooking Sections, blend art with activism, focusing on food as a tool to understand landscapes, economic structures, and supply chains. They explore how food forms alliances with various stakeholders - scientists, fisherfolk, farmers - to reimagine ecosystems and promote ecological relations.
Climavore Project and Intertidal Commons
Their ClimaVore project on the Isle of Sky aims to replace industrial salmon farming with intertidal commons. By engaging locals, scientists, and politicians, they develop new intertidal zones worldwide. The project challenges harmful practices like coloring farmed salmon red, financialization of trees, and monoculture farming.
Climavore Ex-Jameel and Environmental Impact
Climavore Ex-Jameel at RCA explores alternative food practices globally, addressing issues like drought, polluted seas, and soil infertility. Their work delves into connecting food production with culture, ecology, and community resilience, seeking to foster new ecosystems amidst ecological changes.
Metabolic Chain and Commoning Practices
Cooking Sections view the world metabolically, tracing supply chains and digestive systems to understand connections between industrial practices and environmental impact. They aim to enhance food practices that regenerate ecologies and habitats, navigating waste and toxicity through vernacular techniques and new materials.
The artistic duo known as Cooking Sections -- Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the Royal College of Art in London -- use their virtuoso visual, performance, and installation artworks to jolt people into new understanding of local ecosystems, capitalism, and food. Their work, shown at prestigious venues around the world to great acclaim, dramatizes how modern diets are products of "a globally financialized landscape," ranging from artificially colored farmed salmon to eco-destroying monoculture crops. But Cooking Sections also uses its art to work closely with farmers, restaurants, schools, politicians, and citizens to reinvent local foodways through commoning. (Photo by Aman Askarizad, IHME)
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