Moving between food politics, slow practices, acts of care, and considerations on ecology, Inês Coelho da Silva will present her artistic processes and questions. In this talk, local foodscapes, amateur foraging, vital ecosystems and opportunities for human and more-than-human symbiosis will take centre stage.

Over the table of ‘Edible ecosystem: the wetland of my roots’, Inês Coelho da Silva and Kevin Bellò display an edible, compostable and reusable collection of intimate details and visual poems, made with foraged Spring plants gathered on the swamps near Inês’s house in north Portugal. Opening discussions on local food systems, wetland disappearance, overlooked ecosystems and the position of humans and more-than-humans in a shared world, we will be nourished by anti-extractivism. Leftover skins, peels and other non-edibles are here transformed into objects in a collective memory of food yet to be eaten. Within this work, we re-envision the human as a permeable system, an interactive kin-stellation in constant regeneration with and within its landscape, belonging via gathering, eating and digesting.

All edibles are gluten-free, lactose-free and vegan. Foods might include various nuts. Please get in touch if you have any food requirements.

Inês Coelho da Silva (she/her) is an artist and researcher whose practice concerns food, ecology, textiles, care, botany and craft. Inês is a member of the Food and Art collective The Gramounce and hosts lectures in institutions such as the Royal College of Art. Together with Kevin Bellò (he/him/they/them), she engages with fermentation, foraging, wild cooking, and storytelling to envision gentler ecological futures. By moving from food localities, they explore ecological thinking, interspecies collaboration and practices of care.