Un banquet d’histoires au service du patrimoine vivant et de la santé communautaire
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https://doi.org/10.18192/clg-cgl.v10i1.7432Keywords:
art practices, intergenerational transmission, territory, nordicity, food sovereigntyAbstract
In this account of their artistic practice, the duo Place Courage explores the issues raised by “The Lost Food Banquet of the North”, a work presented in Spring 2025 at the McCord Stewart Museum as part of FIKA(S), an immersive festival of Nordic and Scandinavian Kultur and art. For a year, the collective traveled throughout various Nordic territories to collect stories of lost meals—memories of dishes or ingredients that can no longer be tasted. Through these stories, the work questions food memory and the links between culinary heritage, territory, and social, ecological, and cultural transformations. The work is conceived as a space for sharing and reactivating memories, where artistic practice acts as a gesture of repair and transmission.
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