Arepa-Mundo
4 December - 5pm
Free, no registration
Bilingual event
Conceived by Colectiva Polea, Arepa-Mundo is a culinary happening where the making of arepas meets the living world of fermentation. The arepa — a corn cake emblematic of conviviality in several South American countries — becomes here the canvas for a collective, culinary, and relational creation.
Participants are invited to shape their own arepa and incorporate fermentations prepared in collaboration with the co-creators of the work Courtepointe de Confluence. In this shared gesture, the transformations of corn, ingredients found in Quebec, and migratory stories intersect and transform one another.
By letting fermentation unfold— the slow work of microbes and the living —, Arepa-Mundo offers a space to reflect on our relationship to the world through food and to savor together simple, vibrant, and attentive ways of gathering and sharing.
This event is part of the program Everything Still Resonates
Co-created by SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art with Colectiva Polea, the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination, and the Laboratory for Decolonial Art and Research (LabARD), this program brings together Indigenous, diasporic, and settler voices proposing alternatives to socio-ecological crises and sharing tools for healing, transformation, and resistance. From November 27 to December 12, workshops, gatherings, and performances invite participants to imagine new ways of making together.
COLLABORATORS
Colectiva Polea (Colombia/Mexico/QC)
Formed by Karina Arbelaez, Tania Lara, and Javi Fuentes Bernal, Colectiva Polea creates participatory and installation-based projects that explore the articulation of new media with artisanal practices. This material intersection allows them to activate reflections on origins, crossing, and dwelling in relation to the migratory experience. Central to Colectiva Polea's approach, interdisciplinary collaborations enable them to address issues related to questions of belonging and the care of environments from a transborder perspective. Having all undertaken migratory journeys, it is from their own situated experience that Colectiva Polea develops an approach that takes shape through the convergence of varied techniques, ranging from embroidery to writing, through natural pigment extraction, autofiction, video performance, and video mapping. Colectiva Polea's techno-artisanal approach privileges a slow, rhythmic temporality anchored in relationship, opting for reciprocity with the environment.
Élo Lavallée-Davis (@good_bon_good)
Consolata Oloo
Djimet Mahamat Abba
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