Nicole, 24, is a cultural manager, private chef and culinary creative based in Malta. Her work centralizes the role of food sovereignty and culinary ambiguity in contemporary discourses on food. Her research prioritizes ethnographic discourse and its applicability to food and edible identity as a means to understand socio-cultural commensalities.
For her involvement in BWDUA, she will be representing Indiġikċina, a creative cookery and research project founded by herself, on the basis of frustration with a lack of national policy frameworks, that should be aimed at safeguarding the welfare of agricultural workers. Through supper clubs and qualitative research, the project aims to document narratives of food consumption as both a physical and intellectual site for experience, making reference to contemporary discommodities, socio-cultural anxieties and political disjuncture, all in relation to the way we eat as a people.
Areas of interest: Food sovereignty and culinary ambiguity
What inspires you as an artist? Throughout my practice, I ensure to work towards encouraging food to take the form of a legitimate arts form. Aside from this, socio-political and cultural ties to narrative and ideology and how they both stem from and relate to food. Additionally, the observance of culinary ambiguity cross-culturally, inspires me to further my observation and practice of culinary diversity through experimentation.
What do you think is the purpose of art? The purpose of art is to instil emotion, instil an urge to observe and be curious, to contest the contexts of our day to day, to find and appreciate relationship with one another.
Magic Carpets project
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