FOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR

Nora is a Spanish-Chilean researcher and artist based in London and Madrid. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in July 2017, and, as an artist, has performed at leading UK institutions such as Tate Exchange, Design Museum and Camden Arts Centre in London. Nora uses performance as a signifying tool, active process in the genesis of alternative cosmologies, as a mechanism to resist imposed subjectivities. As a researcher, Nora is interested in the role of food in the arts, the postnatural and contemporary socio political theory.

www.norasilva.com

CO-DIRECTOR

Inês is an artist, researcher and educator born in Lisbon and based in London/Brussels. She completed an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art in 2016 and has exhibited internationally since graduating. Her practice moves between performance, installation and social sculpture, investigating food in its intertwined socio-political, cultural and ecological dimensions. Through her work, Inês creates frameworks in order to explore collaboration, generosity, care and togetherness.

www.ines-ns.com

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Noa Jansma is an anti-disciplinary, multimedia designer based in Amsterdam. Throughout her work she explores the human experience in a post-natural world. Through the lens of food she digests connections between ecological awareness, (gendered) bodies, ancestry, colonial legacies, economies, landscape, and how (in)visible infrastructures influence these themes. She creates (performative) research methodologies that translate in various interactive media ranging from ex. video installations, websites, photography, educational programs or pies, which has been internationally exhibited, been included in several publications and won multiple awards.

www.noajansma.com

PROJECTS & MATERIAL DIRECTOR

Finn is a British artist and fabricator living in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017 and currently runs his own fabrication workshop Mitre & Mondays. In his work as an artist, he uses installation to generate a dialogue around social activity and understands sculpture itself is a documentation of an action. In his business Mitre & Mondays, a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio, he along with his partner Josef Stanley-Jackson realise projects alongside architects, artists, designers and makers.

www.finn-thomson.com

TUTOR, IN-HOUSE RESEARCHER AND RESIDENCY SUPPORT

Inês is an artist and researcher based in Porto. Thinking mainly through sculpture and food-making, she identifies the kitchen table as a multi-layered topos for reflecting upon shared traditions, identities and emotions, while thinking about the simultaneous acts of eating and being eaten as forms of care. Between crockery and tablecloths, her visual poems open discussions on local foodscapes, overlooked ecosystems and opportunities for interspecies symbiosis in a shared world.

www.inescoelhodasilva.com

TUTOR, IN-HOUSE RESEARCHER, FOOD AND ART ARCHIVIST AND RESIDENCY SUPPORT

Kevin is an Italian curator and researcher investigating edible knowledge, politics, and inter-species collaborations. He is co-founder of the pan-European art collective The Sympoietic Society to explore environmental activism, practices of co-creation, and healing through storytelling. Their curatorial approach moves from food to investigating ecological and political super-structures, promoting cognitive justice and developing practices of care.

@kevin.bello.art

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Barney is a London-based culinary creative working at the confluence of food, art, and writing, whose practice focuses on food futures, queering consumption, and foraging and fermenting as social resistance. He believes food, in its ubiquity, transcends language as a mode of communication, and by applying it as an artistic medium it can be used to impart new thinking. In his practice, he uses food both to communicate his thinking and as a point of departure for research.

In 2021 he founded Finger Food Magazine: a contributor-based space for stories, artwork, and essays, in any and all mediums, exploring cooking, craft, and creation. When he’s not jamming ferments into jars, peering at plants on the pavement, or writing ramblings for my Substack, you can usually find him foraging for his food or reading books on baking.

www.barneypau.com

ALTERNATIVE M.A. STUDENT MENTOR

Sean Roy Parker is a visual artist, fermentation enthusiast and gardener based at The Field, an artist-run co-living project in Ilkeston, Derbyshire (UK). In his ongoing project Fermental Health he writes essays and leads workshops on the lifecycle of materials, complexities of interspecies responsibility, and problem-solving through collaborative action. He practises slow and low-tech crafts using leftover consumer debris and natural abundances in anticipation of the post-capitalist world, and redistributes resources through flexible care structures like labour exchange, favours and artswaps. Roy has delivered public research projects on fermenting with microbes for Liverpool Biennial (UK), anarchist solidarity with peasant farmer at Pols (Spain), and most recently a solo exhibition 'The Beans' at Two Queens (Leicester UK), where he set up a network of germinations and in-situ microbiology.

Photo by Will Hearle & Omved Gardens

@fermental_health