About

Nora is a Spanish-Chilean researcher and artist based in Madrid. She graduated from the Royal College of Art 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. As part of her artistic practice, she also makes music and, most recently, films.

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.

Noa Jansma is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates commonly accepted cultural beliefs by challenging their validity or purpose through seemingly naive questions. Her work focuses on the relationship between humans and their (ecological) environment, using food as both a subject and a medium. The questions she raises often intersect philosophy, the material-spiritual duality, and politics, resulting in diverse outcomes such as culinary performances, video installations, and educational programs.

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.

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.

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.

Rain Wu is a Taiwanese artist and architect based in London. Her work is conceptually driven and materialises in different forms and scales from drawing, sculpture, food performance, essay film to architectural installation.

She graduated from the Royal College of Art and University College London (Bartlett). Her artwork has been exhibited in Sharjah Biennial, Taipei Biennial, The Palestinian Museum, London Design Biennale, Istanbul Design Biennial; she was one of the Designers in Residence at the Design Museum (London) in 2016, an artist in residence at The Van Eyck (NL) 2018-9, and she is currently an associate lecturer at University of the Arts London and a pathway leader at CSVPA, Cambridge. (photo by Max Creasy)

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

Kaajal Modi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and heritage researcher working through creative modes to engage communities into important conversations about culture, sustainability and climate. Their multispecies co-creation practice incorporates listening, storytelling, growing, fermenting, tasting and other forms of embodied sensing to create lively and situated encounters between people, organisms and ecosystems.