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eat in take out
July 13 - 27, 2024
Exhibition, Dinner Party, and Zine. Exhibited at FLUX Media Centre. Curated by Cassia Powell and dani neira (Dirty Dishes Collective), in collaboration with Snack Witch/Joni Cheung.
Documentation by Cole Smith
In support from FLUX Media Gallery
Curatorial Text
Eat in Take out pairs Soba’s Corner, a video work and takeout menu by Snack Witch/Joni Cheung with a collaborative zine, and dinner party. The exhibition explores food, recipes, restaurant aesthetics, and dinner table gathering as sites of cultural knowledge and connection.
Through parallel spaces of care and disruption, Eat in Take out embraces the collective experience of food-sharing while examining how representations of cultural cuisines can reveal uncomfortable histories and value-systems. Soba’s Corner uses the familiar “how-to” format of a cooking show to play with notions of authenticity, while incorporating hidden narratives in the video captions and menu’s text.
The Eat in Take out zine consists of community-generated recipes, stories, and photographs from Paolino Caputo, Alanna Edwards, Mel Granley, Dani Neira, Josh Ngenda, and Rudra Manani. Prompted by personal and cultural experiences with food, we found this publication filled with recipes for doughy comfort food: bread, bannock, arepas, pancakes, and dhokla.