a plant meal: intimacy and unfamiliarity
Lee, Madeline G.
2019
- “A plant meal” was a collaborative project during which Madeline Lee and Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang planned, curated, and cooked a plant-based meal. Shaped by their learning in Thinking with Plants, an anthropology course taught by Tatiana Chudakova, Madeline and Ana Sofia teamed up to question the ways in which we have come to think about, imagine, and depend on the plants and plant worlds that saturate ... read moreour everyday environment. "A plant meal" is an exploration of the knowledge we carry about plants and how we come to know plants through the stories and work we tell/do in the kitchen. The project culminated in a meal in which Madeline and Ana Sofia invited friends to an ‘intimate and unfamiliar’ meal in which the co-creators told stories about plants; shared poems, paintings, and zines about our plant ingredients; and asked the guests to shift their attention toward their feelings and relationships to the experience of sharing different plant-based dishes. This artist book contains the artifacts shared with the "a plant meal" guests, and reflections on the entire project process.read less
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