Art and Cultural Project Sobremesa Vagaries of the Palate Follow.Art Card

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Sobremesa: Vagaries of the Palate is a project which lingers post-meal, post-action, at the afterparty, and post-performance, in spaces where guards lower and the metaphorical seat at the table showcases the failings of the project of integration. Food here refuses neutrality: not mere conviviality or cultural diffusion, but a charged medium, material witness to nation-states and their identity construction.
Currently in its pilot phase, starting in Southern Europe, across Greece, Italy, Portugal, and the Basque region of Spain, whose borders are increasingly less permeable to the south of the south and east of east, the project acknowledges cuisines as constructions that discount their mobility shaped by displacement, trade routes, and survival tactics – on the one hand diluting incoming food cultures while on the other hand entirely excluding them from the table. The question is not simply who gets a seat at the table, but where and when the table begins and ends.