A project inviting people to share and discuss food, creating space for discussion, learning, cooking, eating and growing.
Living Table is a project that invites people to share and discuss food, creating opportunities for discussion, learning, cooking, eating, and growing through shared meals.
Living Table is inspired by the life that grows around a table: from the life of insects that pollinate crops to the cultural and political life made manifest in recipes, traditions, and dinner table habits, from microorganisms to human migration and looking at our ancestor’s heritage, the soil that we are, water, seeds, and more.
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This workshop will be led by Désirée Coral, an Ecuadorian artist who received her Doctoral degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland in 2024, and her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018.
Désirée was the Glasgow Seed Library’s 2022 first artist and researcher in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow. She was a resident at the Arts Cabinet as part of a research and publication consortium that included various academic European institutions in 2021.
From 2023-2024, she was granted an Artist-in-Residency for one year, where she developed the project Living Table at Forgan Arts Centre. She has recently exhibited at Tignous Centre pour les Arts, Montreuil, Paris. CCA Glasgow, Green Gallery Botanical Garden’s UOD. She has previously presented work at MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit, The Sullivan Galleries Chicago, Mana Contemporary Chicago, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Museo Camilo Egas Quito, Alliance Française Quito, Exprimento Limon, Madrid among other national and international venues and collaborations.
Void Art Centre is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Fluxus Art Projects, Foundation Foundation, Future Screens NI, Garfield Weston Foundation, Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland, the Henry Moore Foundation, Northbound Brewery and Ulster University.