Food Worlds launches!

Contact: Center for Art and Thought

Clare Counihan, (323) 452-3550, pr@centerforartandthought.org

Food Worlds’ Multi-Platform Launch

What are the historical determinants and legacies of Filipino foods? How do foods travel as part of the labor diaspora? How does food ground, enable or destabilize Filipino identities?

SPAM/MAPS: World Red, 2001. 36 in. x 48 in. x 2 in. Michael Arcega.

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 30, 2014) -- The Center for Art and Thought (CA+T), a web-based arts and education nonprofit organization, is pleased to announce the launch of its next virtual curated exhibition, Food Worlds, on CA+T's website (www.centerforartandthought.org) and Pinterest site (http://www.pinterest.com/artandthought/adobo-my-way/).

Co-curated by Clare Counihan and Sarita See, Food Worlds assembles artists and scholars who together create a map of the world through Filipino food. And what a rich, unending series of combinations and juxtapositions that has turned out to be. Worlds, plural. Inspired by Doreen G. Fernandez’s ground-breaking research into Filipino food histories and culture, this virtual exhibition considers what making and eating Filipino food reveals about Filipinos in the Philippines and its wide-flung diaspora, as well as those others who (refuse to) eat Filipino. Thus, we focus on the Philippines but also extend our analysis to other communities shaped by the multiple specters of colonialism, militarization, and globalization.

As works by Laura Kina and Wesley Ueunten, Jessica Hagedorn and Alexander Orquiza suggest, food is a key way to understand the intimacies and alienations of colonial presences throughout the pacific, while Johanna Poethig, Tim Manalo and Elaine Castillo reflect on those same negotiations far from “home.” Martin Manalansan, Nerissa Balce, and Jerry Takigawa further complicate notions of “food” by exploring the politics of smell, production and waste. For a full list of contributors please see the extended curatorial statement (http://www.centerforartandthought.org/work/project/food-worlds).

Yana Gilbuena, CA+T’s new Artist in Residence, translates Food Worlds’ questions into a traveling exploration of cooking and community. During her residency, she documents and reflects on her ongoing SALO project: in a different city in a different state each week, she hosts a pop up dinner of regional Filipino foods over the course of fifty weeks. She depends upon what she can find locally—from produce to flavorings—and strangers in each city share new (or familiar) dishes and, briefly, lives.

Alongside Food Worlds, CA+T is also hosting Adobo MY Way, a search for the best adobo recipe (http://www.pinterest.com/artandthought/adobo-my-way/). The unofficial national dish of the Philippines, adobo reveals the rich regional and individual variations in Filipino food. We challenge every cook who’s ever claimed that “adobo my way is the best” to join the competition. The five recipes with the most “re-pins” by June 15, 2014 will win an adobo-themed CA+T tote bag—and bragging rights.

About the Center for Art and Thought:

Starting from the perspectives of Filipinos around the world, the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T) harnesses the potential of digital and new media technologies in order to foster dialogues between artists, scholars, and the broader public. A web-based nonprofit organization, CA+T believes that the convergence between art and critical thought is a crucial way to generate new modes of knowledge production and creative and critical lenses for understanding and transforming global conditions.

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Paradise Lost and Found: A Conference on Indigenous Hawaiian Nature and Culture

Paradise Lost and Found: A Conference on Indigenous Hawaiian Nature and Culture

Co-sponsored and co-listed with DePaul University’s 2013-2014 “President's Signature Series”

Part of the Humanities Center’s “LSP 200 Multiculturalism Series”

May 9-10, 2014

Friday, May 9th: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 10th: 1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons
2324 North Fremont St.
Chicago, IL

The DePaul Humanities Center, in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, convenes a conferencecelebrating indigenous Hawaiian people, nature, art, history, and culture.  From May 9-10, we will investigate Hawaiian heritage, with interdisciplinary talks ranging from discussions of ecology and the problem of invasive species, to the troubled history of colonialism and the question of Hawaiian sovereignty.  Lectures on art will cover contemporary painting that investigates mixed-race identity, as well as the traditional folk songs of Japanese immigrant sugar workers.  The conference will also feature several live performances of Hawaiian music and dance featuring ukulele, singing, chanting, and hula. Opening Friday evening with a multi-media “lecture-performance” that uses dance and Hawaiian myth and history to investigate environmental ethics and the possibility of a moral theory that includes even nonliving things such as rocks, the conference continues on Saturday with a full day of lectures and performances from local and nationally renowned scholars and artists.

This conference is free and open to the general public.

For more information, phone 773-325-4580 or email <aperson@depaul.edu>.

Friday, May 9, 2014

6:00 – 8:00 pm            H. Peter Steeves, with Halau i Ka Pono - The Hula School of Chicago
                                    “O, Rocks!  Tell Us In Plain Words”


Saturday, May 10, 2104

1:00 – 1:50 pm            Franklin Odo
                                    The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
                                    “Folk Songs from Japanese Immigrant Sugar Workers in Hawai`i”

1:50 – 2:40 pm            Lori Pierce
                                    DePaul University, African and Black Diaspora Studies
                                    “U.S. Colonialism and Hawai`i History”
                                                          
2:40 – 3:00 pm            Coffee break

3:00 – 3:50 pm            Laura Kina
                                    DePaul University, Art, Media, and Design
                                    “Blue Hawai`i: Painting Okinawan Diaspora and Memory”

3:50 – 4:40 pm           Liam Heneghan
                                    DePaul University, Environmental Science and Studies
                                    “Hawai`i’s Natural History: It’s Both More and Less Than It Seems”

[4:40 – 6:00 pm          Reception/Dinner for invited guests only; please be sure to have your ticket ready]

6:00 – 6:30 pm            Jason Poole
                                    “Music from Molokai and Beyond: A Performance of Traditional and
                                    Original Hawaiian Folk Songs”

6:30 – 7:00 pm            June Tanoue, MPH, Kumu Hula
                                    Halau i Ka Pono - The Hula School of Chicago                                            
                                    “Hula is Life”

7:00 – 8:00 pm            Michael Pili Pang, MFA, Kumu Hula
                                    H?lau Hula Ka No'eau (performers: Davin Kawailana Pascual & Alrando Fortuna)
                                    “Hula is Resistance”
 

Spring 2014 Lecture and Panel Schedule

Laura Kina "Blue Hawaii: Painting Archives of Memory and Melancholy"
Friday, April 25,2014 4-5pm Indiana University Bloomington
Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 015
1201 E. 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47405
Co-hosted by the Asian American Studies Program and the IU Art Museum, in conjunction with IU's celebration of Asian American Pacific Heritage Month
Free and open to the general public
For more info visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~aasp/


Northwestern University Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Thursday, May 8, 2014 12:00-1:30pm
Asian American Studies Conference Room Kresge 2-425
Roundtable Discussion: Expressive Discontent with Laura Kina (DePaul University) and Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson (Northwestern). Part of the year-long series surrounding "The Black Pacific."
http://www.asianamerican.northwestern.edu/graduate/

Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:15-4:15 Laura Kina "Blue Hawaii: Painting Okinawan Diaspora and Memory" as part of the Paradise Lost and Found: A Conference on Indigenous Hawaiian Nature and Culture
DePaul University
Cortelyou Commons
2324 North Fremont St.
Chicago, IL
The conference runs from May 9-10, 2014. For a complete program listing visit: http://las.depaul.edu/humanitiescenter/UpcomingEvents/A_Conference_on_Indigenous_Haw/index.asp
Co-sponsored and co-listed with DePaul University’s 2013-2014 President's Signature Series, and part of the Humanities Center’s “LSP 200 Multiculturalism Series
This conference is free and open to the general public.

National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE)
27th Annual National Conference NCORE 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:30-5:30pm
Indiana Convention Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
Special Feature Presentation:
"Visual Activism: Film, Social Media, and Art works used by artists and scholars-artists to invoke social justice"
Presenters:
Mary Yu Danico, PhD, Cal Poly Pomona
Renee Tajima Pena, UCLA
Laura Kina, MFA, DePaul University
Jeff Sheng, Stanford University
You must be registered for the conference to attend. Visit NCORE for more info: https://www.ncore.ou.edu/