DO IT FOR THE FEED

As part of the Summer Public Programme, Shumon Basar brings together a range of cultural figures for a set of interdisciplinary conversations around the many meanings and media around food today.

In these presentations and conversations, Shumon Basar explores food’s myriad manifestations with artist and internet researcher Joshua Citarella on his Instagram body-bulking life-performance; film curator Gareth Evans on food as cinema’s main character; academic Daniel Felstead on #Foodtok’s weird, eerie, extreme umami effects; curator Aya Mousawi on artist Michael Rakowitz’s Iraqi-Jewish culinary installations that invoke intergenerational transmission; artist Asad Raza on the poetics, possibilities and deep-time of soil; and writer/researcher Gűnseli Yalcinkaya on whether Gen Z are forsaking formal meals for perpetual, time-and-money saving snacks: what happens to the soul when it is fed exclusively on energy drinks and baked hummus chips?

SCHEDULE:
2:00pm Welcome and Introduction by Shumon Basar

2:15pm Gareth Evans

2:45pm Aya Mousawi

3:15pm Asad Raza

3:45pm BREAK

4:00pm Joshua Citarella

4:30pm Gűnseli Yalcinkaya

5:00pm Daniel Felstead

5:30pm ENDS

PARTICIPANTS
Joshua Citarella is an artist and internet culture researcher based in NYC. He is the author of Politigram & the Post-left (2018) and 20 Interviews (2020). He is the host of a popular podcast and livestream. He is the founder of Do Not Research, an arts organization focused on internet culture, memetic tactics and emergent political trends.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event producer & host and documentary mentor. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates / hosts their Screen at Home series. From 2012 - 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Daniel Felstead is an academic and strategist whose practice focuses on fashion, technology, and culture. He is the course leader of MA Fashion Media & Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL) and co-founder of Emergence of Tomorrow, an online discussion space. Most recently he produced “The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism”, a short film, commission by DIS.art, that offers a grotesque, cringe and perverse analysis of the future of the internet.

Aya Mousawi is a cultural strategist and curatorial programmer known for delivering international projects and artistic activations throughout the world. Mousawi is currently leading the curatorial strategy for the new Jeddah Museum under Heatherwick Studio; was Director of Aorist, co-founder of The Moving Museum and over the past 15 years has worked with Art Basel Cities, Edge of Arabia and Misk Art Institute.

Asad Raza assembles coalitions of living and non-living agents in his practice. Working on questions of dialogue and community and rejecting disciplinary boundaries, Raza conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience, in which visitors engage in playful exchanges of meaning.

Günseli Yalcinkaya is a writer and researcher based in London who studies online micro and nano communities. She is features editor at Dazed Magazine and the host of Logged On, a monthly podcast series exploring all things internet culture, and an artist specialising in myth-making and post-human futures.