INITIATIVE FOR PRACTICES AND VISIONS OF RADICAL CARE


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L’Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, fondée en 2020 dans la région parisienne, est un groupe diversifié de praticien·nes des arts, de l’artisanat, des philosophies, des soins et de la thérapie, dont les membres sont issu·es d’horizons géographiques divers. Ni collectif classique, ni structure rigide, l’Initiative recherche et réinvente des modes d’institutionnalisme durables. Fondée sur des amitiés et des liens professionnels, elle fonctionne comme un écosystème et encourage l’interdépendance et la solidarité au-delà de l’identité. L’accent mis sur le care est mis en œuvre sous la forme d’un flux d’activités qui nourrissent des individus et soutiennent des liens sociaux, environnementaux et politiques, en se concentrant autant sur les processus et les méthodes que sur les résultats. Par le biais d’initiatives artistiques et curatoriales fluides, l’Initiative explore les langages, les énergies, les histoires, les paysages, les corps et les matériaux qui reflètent une relation non-extractive et sensible à l’humain et au non-humain

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Poetics of Tasting: a Tale of Resistance


AWARE, Villa Marie Vassilieff, 21 Avenue de Maine, 75015 Paris

May 13, 2025


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For its third edition as part of the “Care as Methodology” program, the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care is pleased to present Poetics of Tasting, developed in collaboration with the INLAND, Basta Theatre, and La Famille Rester.Étranger collectives. This program was conceived at the invitation of AWARE:  Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.

Poetics of Tasting explores culinary memory as both a site of cultural transmission and an active practice of resistance. Recipes are approached not merely as instructions but as alternative repositories of knowledge — forms of embodied epistemology that carry within them histories, gestures, and local memory that transcend written language.

Audiences are invited to engage with these narratives through sensation and performative dialogue with the  participating collectives. Sensory experiences such as tasting, touching, and smelling become integral to understanding how culinary knowledge encodes the affective and social conditions under which food is prepared, shared, and remembered. Recipes operate as living archives, transmitting cultural practices across generations and geographies, sustaining communal identities even in contexts marked by dispossession, displacement, or exile. The transmission of taste — through texture, scent, temperature — forges a sense of community, particularly in the context of physical absence. The inability to cook or share a meal, as experienced by communities living in forced isolation, disrupts the continuity of cultural memory and sense of belonging.


Photo credits: Marion Mille, Zala Norčič