Field Meal Network
Community kitchen
As part of ongoing research into hospitality as a praxis of solidarity, the co-convenors of the Community Portal, together with food sovereignty activist Berend Bombarius (2024 Accomplice), collaborate with a network of European cultural institutions that also operate active kitchens—La Cuina del MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona), Barcelona, and Savvy Contemporary, Berlin.
Throughout 2024, the Community Portal organizes a series of mutual fieldwork visits between cultural kitchen workers in Barcelona, Berlin, and Utrecht. Guided by a simple question—how to set up a community kitchen—they travel to observe, discuss, document, participate, cook, eat, drink, do dishes, and engage in conversations around dinner tables about the food-centered practices that thrive in and around institutions and the cities they serve. The goal is to explore how communities are built around kitchens that stand in solidarity with various social and political movements. This memory-making process while in transit is taken seriously, culminating in a series of grey literature reports and a final public festivity, Open Kitchen (October 2024), which will be circulated at the conclusion of these road trips.
GENEALOGY
This research is developed in collaboration with food activist Marina Monsonis, program head of La Cuina del MACBA, and Renan Laru-an, director of Savvy Contemporary. The fieldwork has also involved mutual visits to community kitchens and autonomous collectives based in Berlin and Barcelona:
Berlin
Berlin
Migrant Strikers Kitchen, Studio Nagelneu, Migrant Food Dealers soli-kufa
Barcelona
Espai Pomezia, La Florida s’Aveina, La Cinematika Voku, La Escocesa, Keras Buti
And more to come...
The term Field Meals was proposed by artist Santiago Pinyol as part of his research and public program for the Ultrahospitality study group of Ultradependent Public School (2023).
GENEALOGY
This research is developed in collaboration with food activist Marina Monsonis, program head of La Cuina del MACBA, and Renan Laru-an, director of Savvy Contemporary. The fieldwork has also involved mutual visits to community kitchens and autonomous collectives based in Berlin and Barcelona:
Berlin
Berlin
Migrant Strikers Kitchen, Studio Nagelneu, Migrant Food Dealers soli-kufa
Barcelona
Espai Pomezia, La Florida s’Aveina, La Cinematika Voku, La Escocesa, Keras Buti
And more to come...
The term Field Meals was proposed by artist Santiago Pinyol as part of his research and public program for the Ultrahospitality study group of Ultradependent Public School (2023).
