Meat and Two Veg
How Eating Designs the World
Presented by BothAnd Group
Gallery Talk: 4pm – 5pm, Saturday 30 September , 2023
On show: 11am - 6pm, 29th September – 08 October
Location The Festival Printworks Gallery
This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis.
About
BothAnd Group will present the exhibition exhibition “Meat and Two Veg” which aims to question the role that architectural agency can play in the visual translation of the 'complex assemblages' of the Irish food system. The research is centred around a typical plate of Irish food - meat and two vegetables - centring ecology within our practice and architectural discourse. This shows how a popular dish which is framed as ‘local’ by food marketing campaigns is rather produced across European and global landscapes. These contradictions are followed in the fieldwork which encounter Ireland’s grass and carrot seeds produced in the Netherlands, its broccoli seeds in Japan and its potato tubers in Scotland. This fieldwork showed the complexity of global food systems, obscured by consumers; disconnected from them. The analysis unfolded landscapes of simplified ecologies designed by industrial food production. In this research, the term 'landscape' is used to describe the negotiation of city, countryside, region and planet. Instead of the expectation that these rural landscapes would reveal themselves as natural and inevitable, the journey admitted the intensive and synthetic character.
Supported by:
I-portunus Creative Europe Programme, Arts Council Ireland