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Seed of Memory: Ancestral Recipes

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Title: Seed of Memory: Ancestral Recipes
Author(s): Weaving Realities Collective (Yuchen Li, Aldo Esparza Ramos)
Published by: 51 Personae + The Phantom Archives
Designer: Heike Renée de Wit
Language: English
Date of publication: 30 May, 2024
Dimensions (W x L x D): 120 x 190 x 80 mm
Binding: Paperback
Printing format: Offset
Pages: 112
Weight: 133g
Edition: 2
ISBN: 978-988-76489-2-5
Keywords: Art practice, Iku people, Abya Yala, food, ancestral knowledge, decolonization, performance

Retail price: HKD 98

Brief description

The artist collective Weaving Realities’ (Yuchen Li, Aldo Esparza Ramos) contributes this book to decolonial healing as a seed of memory. Li and Ramos have been gathering and reenacting ancestral recipes since 2017, using art to amplify the voices of stories that are being silenced and to remember the worlds of meanings that are being erased. They believe that ancestral recipes can open a space for learning diverse knowledges which contribute to healing our relations to food, to land and the lives of others. Through cooking and eating together, they attempt to build a bridge that connects them to the communities in Abya Yala, who are living in reciprocity with Earth.