ART COOK *

For me, being an “art cook” involves the necessary practices of citationality,
of the layering of meanings in and towards daily necessary activities involved with and around food and eating.

How by paying closer attention to the commonalities of cooking and eating together we might simultaneously begin to think art anew and, re-imagine and re-shape where and how we come to know each other, our own relationships to nourishing ourselves, to growth, to quite literally feeding ourselves.

How might the practices of art making be considered within and alongside cooking? What happens when we sit together, assemble to eat and share?

How does this gathering simultaneously teach us about listening, care, and communi- ty building?

How can we then remember that these moments are also embedded in the practices of dance and art making, especially in my country of Burkina Faso?

By paying closer attention to the food on our table we might pay attention to history, to colonization, to access, to memory, to ancestry, to spirituality, to sociology and so much more.

Then, how might these same questions reveal very different ways of knowing and considering art and art making?