Be My Guest: Food ethics with Elaine Tin Nyo
This Sunday, join us for a fun afternoon of casual conversation and food and drink pairing. Your host artist, Elaine Tin Nyo, will show you how to make dumplings and a cocktail in an open-format discussion over food ethics.
“A dish is not just the sum of its parts, it is its maker, its occasion, the company in which it is eaten.”
— Priya Basil, Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity (2019).
Sunday, May 16 at 12 pm EDT / GMT-4
Pair this talk with dumplings and a Canadian Sunset
Featuring Elaine Tin Nyo
Curated by Noor Alé
Conceptual artist, writer and cook Elaine Tin Nyo invites you for a virtual visit to a rustic french cooking school (The Kitchen at Camont) to chat about our complex relationship with our non-human relatives: pets, domestic livestock, zoo animals and wild animals. How do they define us? Why are some so cute? Why are some so delicious?
Please join us this coming spring and summer for, Be My Guest, a series of monthly casual conversations that will bring together artists, writers, and curators speaking about notions of community, spirituality, and ethics through mediated engagements with food and drink pairings. Before each conversation, participants will receive a menu with instructions to gather affordable ingredients in order to prepare the recipes for each engagement in their homes.
Artist bio
Elaine Tin Nyo is a conceptual artist with a kitchen and a studio in the southwest of France who employs food as a vehicle to explore issues of mortality and responsibility. Using performance, video, photography, cooking and writing, she reframes the everyday rituals of food and its preparation so we may reflect on the inherent beauty and value of the seemingly mundane moments of our lives. Her photographs, food, videos, installations, and performances have been presented at MoMA, Victoria & Albert Museum, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Bronx Museum. Tin Nyo has received project support from Creative Capital Foundation, The Phillips Collection, and Seoksu Art Project, among others. In addition to her visual arts background, she has learned at the side of home cooks and restaurant chefs on three continents. In addition to her visual arts background, she has learned at the side of home cooks and restaurant chefs on three continents.
curator bio
Noor Alé is the Assistant Curator at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville. Her curatorial practice examines the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics and social justice. She holds an MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA in Art History from the University of Guelph. She has contributed to curatorial research, exhibition management, and public programmes at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; and Art Dubai. Alé has written for Peripheral Review, C Magazine, and PUBLIC. She was awarded curatorial residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, and the Shanghai Curators Lab.
Resources
Further reading: This Little Piggy
