A Meal Encounter #5: Performance
Ximena Garnica + Shige Moriya & LEIMAY Ensemble
Work In Progress
In an intimate setting, a small group of attendees share in a communal journey traced by food. Part art installation, part ritual, part laboratory, part meal, and part conversation, this poem for the senses creates space for friends and strangers to eat together, while reflecting on our post-industrial relationship with food. With the state of divisiveness and partisanship that’s rampant in the US at the moment, “A Meal” opens a space to create new relationships while questioning through art the structures and environmental challenges of food in the anthropocene.
This year’s encounter will take place on HERE’s main stage and is dedicated to NYC Street Vendors. The performances will catalyze two different conversations: On 7/22 we will talk about Food Autonomy: Reflections on Production, Distribution, Preparation, Consumption, and Power, and on 7/23 we will discuss Policy and NYC Street Food Vendors: Criminalization of Labor of Historically Excluded Workers.
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As part of A Meal: Encounter #5, LEIMAY catalyzed two discussions: Food Autonomy: Reflections on Production, Distribution, Preparation, Consumption, and Power, and Policy and NYC Street Food Vendors: Criminalization of Labor of Historically Excluded Workers. In the development of the Work, LEIMAY also interviewed food vendors across New York City.
Object Identifier
AMP.XSW.2018.1000.93.5ID number
2018.1000.93.5Year Created
2022Language
EnglishRunning Time
90 MinutesSeries
A MealCurated Filters
- Dance/Theater/Opera
- Bodies
- Natural Elements
- Latex
- Opening Spaces
- Meeting Points
Space / Location
- Residency
- Onsite work spaces
- Virtual Gallery (storefront for sales)
- LEIMAY Intensives
Premiere Venue
HERE Art Center145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
Awards
- HERE
- Residency
- 2021-2022
- HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP)
Direction, Choreography, Light, Scenic and Food Design: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Composition and Sound Design: Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Performance by the LEIMAY Ensemble and Guests: Masanori Asahara, Nixon Beltran, Krystel Copper, Paige Cowen, Melani DeGuzman, Drew Sensue-Weinstein, Yolanda Tianyi-Shao, Jeremy Slater
Costume Design: Ximena Garnica and Irena Romendik
Shige Moriya, Hunter Canning
Commissioned, developed, and produced by HERE Art Center
Co-Produced by LEIMAY Foundation
LEIMAY work and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Encounter #5 Outreach & Research Coordinators: Jeremy Goren and Brandon Perdomo
Production & Creative Intern: Yolanda Tianyi-Shao
Guest Speakers
- Food Autonomy: Reflections on Production, Distribution, Preparation, Consumption, and Power: Tiana Rainford, East NY Farms!, Jason Trachtenburg, 4th Street Food Co-op
- Policy and NYC Street Food Vendors: Criminalization of Labor of Historically Excluded Workers: Mohamed Attia (Street Vendor Project), Kelebohile Nkhereanye, Julie Torres Moskovitz, NYS Senator Jessica Ramos
Conversation Moderators: Ximena Garnica and Jeremy Goren
