ALIMENTARY LONGINGS :: GARDEN GATHERING

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

ALIMENTARY LONGINGS. 
The seams between memory and provision

GATHERING    29.05.2025   13:00–22:00
WITH  Kathleen Bomani, Zina Saro-Wiwa, GAEC (Group of Action and Critical Study), Isma Gane, Daniellis Hernandez, Mark Mushiva, Emeka Ogboh, Yvonne Phillis, Theodora Pius, and more +++ 
VENUE LOBE Block, Böttgerstrasse 16, 13357 Berlin
LANGUAGE The event takes place in English
FREE ENTRY  Donations welcome
ACCESS LOBE Block is accessible by wheelchair

How do we feed ourselves in a world where food has become a mechanism of control? How do we reclaim sustenance – as cultural memory, as future possibility – in landscapes marked by extraction and erasure?

ALIMENTARY LONGINGS is a public programme exploring food, farming, land reclamation, drink, and spirituality as sites of resistance and reconnection. Through dialogues, workshops, and communal practices, we interrogate the entangled histories of ecology, colonialism, and survival – asking how provision can be both an act of remembrance and a strategy for autonomy.

Impulses
Colonial Appetites: From the nutmeg wars of the Banda Islands to the sugarcane fields of the Caribbean, food crops have been instruments of empire. We examine how imperial logic transformed land into inert matter and severed relationships of reciprocity.

We invite you to a full-day programme planted by SAVVY Contemporary in the beautiful garden at LOBE Block on May 29th, the day of the feast of Ascension, as we gather to confront some of these contradictions. Through acts of breaking bread, listening to music, performances, and discussions, the program will aim to answer core questions such as: How do we nourish ourselves in systems built to starve us? Can food sovereignty exist within cities built on colonial wealth? How do the excesses of the imperial core impact the possibilities of sovereignty in the global south? How do we honor grief while planting futures? When survival depends on interdependence, how do we relearn reciprocity?

TEAM

CURATION   Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh, Sagal Farah, Billy Fowo
PROJECT MANAGEMENT   Anna Fasolato
GENERAL MANAGEMENT   Lema Sikod 
COMMUNICATION & TRANSLATION   Anna Jäger
DESIGN   Aziza Ahmad
PUBLIC PROGRAMME PARTNER   LOBE Block

Funding  This project is generously supported by the Arts for Climate Lab.