Food and eating are central to community. When we eat we are in companionship with our neighbors and all those who show up, both the invited guests and the unexpected company. Seated with us at the table are our fellow humans, plants, mushrooms, bacteria and other animals. While some of these visitors eat and some are eaten, all participate in a variety of exchanges.
Please join spurse (plus collaborators and special guests) in a mid-winter feast to explore and experiment with community. This multi-course meal will feature foraged and gleaned local plants and animals in unique preparations and one-of-a kind settings. The meal will be free and we ask in return a lively willingness to be in cahoots with the questions of eating, foraging, community and our multi-species commons. Collaborators include Jen Woodin, Chad Curtis, Cameron Andersen, En Sang Cho, Gale DellaRocco, Priscilla Dobler, Melissa Graff, Shoji Miyazawa, and Amy Williams.
As ISSUE transitions from our current location in the Gowanus to our new home in Downtown Brooklyn, the nature of our programming, community and relationship to Brooklyn will change greatly. In an attempt to keep our decision-making transparent and create an open forum for community input, we have established an informal series called Species of Spaces. Meant to serve as a non-strategic plan for our move, a discussion running alongside and supplementing our normal work, Species of Spaces is an attempt to reinvigorate and extend our experimental origins. Species of Spaces will be the home for a plethora of shared concerns and interests with no defined structure or agenda. For each event, we will invite a number of guests and collaborators to help formulate the evening and lead the discussion. Each iteration will inform the next, the conversation gaining practicality and robustness throughout the year.
“To start with, then, there isn’t very much: nothingness, the impalpable, the virtually immaterial; extension, the external, what is external to us, what we move about in the midst of, out ambient milieu, the space around us.” - Georges Perec
