Manuel Molina Martagon, Spice Stories, 2022. Photo: Daniela Garza In summer 2022, New York-based artist Manuel Molina Martagon led the workshop Spice Stories, collaborating with 6-8 grade students from District 1’s Summer Rising program. The workshop combined world history and geography to explore the role of spices throughout different historical periods and their changing value over time. …
All attendees must RSVP here Acquired Taste Sobremesa is a continuation of a series of classes/performances that use food as a vehicle for conversations ranging from authenticity and tradition to technology and access while considering the labor, economic, and emotional implications in the food we eat. Last presented at Essex Market in March 2020, just days …
Essex Market Kitchen: 88 Essex Street (inside Essex Market) NYC 10002 Version Español Acquired Taste Sobremesa is a continuation of a series of classes/performances that uses food as a vehicle for conversations ranging from authenticity and tradition to technology and access while considering the labor, economic, and emotional implications in the food we eat. Last …
“These are photos from Acquired Taste, a project I did at Essex Market with Cuchifritos just before the pandemic. The cooking workshop was a vehicle to get strangers together and maybe have a chance to connect through making a meal. Based on a large degree of randomness, the goal was to make people spend time …
Wang Tuo, Obsessions (Video Still), 2019 As we confronted the immense upheaval caused by the pandemic—challenges to our concept of borders, disruption of civic life, failure of leadership, devastation of our truly vulnerable communities, confrontation of our visible and invisible systems—we turned to our community of alumni with a simple request: what might be the …
Download exhibition publication Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present Acquired Taste, a series of workshops led by LES Studio Program Resident Manuel Molina Martagon, on view at 88 Essex Street from February 21 through March 8, 2020. Acquired Taste is a cooking class/performance dinner during which cooking and food will be used as a vehicle …
As an artist, I am curious about how people live, the mechanisms of adaptation and decision making-processes. I want to question the apparently small conscious -and subconscious- choices that define our lifestyle, and look closely at the creative solutions in the survival mechanisms of everyday life. Food plays a key role, and usually the numerous …
