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URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/chomh-milis-le-mil-isabella-koban-at-t
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SUMMARY:Chomh milis le mil | Isabella Koban at The Black Box
DESCRIPTION:"Chomh bán le bainne /Chomh milis le mil / Chomh dearg le fuil
 ."\nas white as milk/ as sweet as honey / as red as blood . (trans.)\n\n(N
 FC\, 0023 : 190)\n\n(Anna Ní Fhathaigh\, School’s Collection\, Duchas c
 . 1920s. )\n\nJoyce says that the soul of Ireland is trapped in a net\; it
  is also collected there. To create ourselves we must reach into that fish
 ing net\, that lacework\, that woven basket. Do our fingers catch in the g
 aps?\n\nOwing a great debt to the scholarship of Martín Mac Con Iomaire\,
  Bríd Mahon\, Kevin Danaher\, Jennie Moran and the thousands of voices wo
 ven into the Dúchas Schools collection\, my art practice explores and rei
 magines the patchwork history of cooking culture in Ireland. It does so in
  the hopes of easing a painful cultural memory of famine\, fasting\, hunge
 r strikes\, institutionalization and food insecurity\, which today manifes
 ts in the prevalence of disordered eating and Ireland’s disregard for th
 e nutritional needs of those in our care.\n\nDrawing on the aforementioned
  scholarship\, persevering folklore\, medieval Irish literature\, traditio
 nal craft methods (patchworking\, Irish lace\, delft ceramics)\, as well a
 s my love of cooking with my friends\, the work develops a joyful visual l
 anguage for Irish cooking. The artistic outcomes of my research into food 
 history tend to root themselves in Irish craft traditions\, such as Irish 
 lace crochet\, quilting and weaving\, underscoring the idea that Irish coo
 king deserves to be revived with the same significance in our culture as t
 he aforementioned crafts.\n\nThe exhibition opening will feature hand-draw
 n looping animations showing step-by step instructions of how to cook some
  traditional regional dishes which have fallen out of the culture as a res
 ult of colonisation\, famine\, etc.\,\n\nKnowing the level of destruction 
 to people and culture caused by orchestrated famine\, in Ireland historica
 lly and now as it happens in Gaza\, I believe in the significance of recon
 structing our food culture in a way which contradicts the individualistic 
 and destructive philosophy of colonization. If the art of colonization is 
 line and boundary\, our art must be holding\, gathering\, sharing.
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Northern Ireland - Belfast
LOCATION:The Black Box\, 18-22 Hill Street\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT1 2LA\, I
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