TEOSINTE

Saturday, August 20th, 2016. 8am-1pm
NYC Summer Streets
Park Avenue between 51st & 52nd St
New York, NY 10154

Teosinte is a gastronomic workshop that is part of the Culinialismos series by the artist Juanli Carrión, which investigates the history of gastronomic appropriation that has occurred due to colonialism. Through a series of related projects Culinialismos analyzes the different processes of exclusion, domination and separation that are linked to the construction of cultural identity.

To continue the series, Carrión will hold a workshop within the specific framework of NYC Summer Streets, reflecting on the history and symbolism of corn, a plant first domesticated in what is now Mexico more than 10,000 years ago, and which is now globally ubiquitous. Teosinte, taking its name from the wild plant that was domesticated as maize, will reflect on the iconography linked to exercises of economic domination, welcoming workshop participants to model original shapes using an edible corn-based paste. These figures will reflect an intersection of capital iconography of both pre-Columbian cultures and of the current United States.