The Huitlacoche Project
Category: Performance
Date: May 17th, 2023
Location: Torn Space Theatre in Buffalo, NY.
Project Components:
1. Documentation
2. Placemats
3. Huitlacoche Frame Interpolation
Performance Description
Torn Space collaborates with University at Buffalo’s Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, to present a performance by Mexican artist and researcher Alvaro Azcárraga, who explores the intersection of botanical organisms and the history of scientific colonialism.
Following the success of 水土Water/Soil Discontent不服 in 2022, Torn Space collaborates once again with University at Buffalo’s Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with the tools and technologies of the life sciences. This event involves a conference, a guided immersive exhibition within the theater and a curated tasting menu exploring the colonization of maize. This is a seated event with a presentation of fine art illustration, video projection, a designed soundscape, followed by an artist talk.
Tasting Menu developed in collaboration with Chef Juana Lomeli T.
Juana Lomeli T, also known as Juana Chiles, has dedicated her life to the investigation of Mexican cookery, from chiles, corn, herbs, spices, vegetables, etc. She worked as a consumer advocate and helped in investigations on Mexican eating habits. She has written books and articles in Mexico and the USA, including El Chile y otros Picantes, El Mundo de los Frijoles, and Guía del Tequila con Artes de Mexico. She has also collaborated with Kens Kitchen, Música y Cocina Mexicana, and National Geographic.
Torn Space collaborates with University at Buffalo’s Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, to present a performance by Mexican artist and researcher Alvaro Azcárraga, who explores the intersection of botanical organisms and the history of scientific colonialism.
Following the success of 水土Water/Soil Discontent不服 in 2022, Torn Space collaborates once again with University at Buffalo’s Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts, a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with the tools and technologies of the life sciences. This event involves a conference, a guided immersive exhibition within the theater and a curated tasting menu exploring the colonization of maize. This is a seated event with a presentation of fine art illustration, video projection, a designed soundscape, followed by an artist talk.
Tasting Menu developed in collaboration with Chef Juana Lomeli T.
Juana Lomeli T, also known as Juana Chiles, has dedicated her life to the investigation of Mexican cookery, from chiles, corn, herbs, spices, vegetables, etc. She worked as a consumer advocate and helped in investigations on Mexican eating habits. She has written books and articles in Mexico and the USA, including El Chile y otros Picantes, El Mundo de los Frijoles, and Guía del Tequila con Artes de Mexico. She has also collaborated with Kens Kitchen, Música y Cocina Mexicana, and National Geographic.
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