| Taking the table as a common thread or motif (dinner table, games table, discussion table, workbench), this ‘terracotta’ reader makes the case for hospitality as a critical survival skill. Essays and other contributions speak to the roles of host and guest, while sharing tactics to craft shared, convivial spaces; both in-person and, increasingly, at a distance. The route looks at the household, studio, and kitchen as spaces of engagement and creative production, while reflecting on what the practicalities of food and shelter can tell us about different understandings of home and community, across different settings. Zooming out, we stress the importance of fostering translocal kinship networks in times of turbulence and interrupted mobility. Contemplating the (many) challenges in linking people and spaces scattered across states and time zones, we look for lessons from FoAM’s own project history, evaluating the possibilities and limits of artist residencies, food and cooking, slow travel, pilgrimage, and historical systems of trade and exchange. | Taking the table as a common thread or motif (dinner table, games table, discussion table, workbench), the ‘terracotta’ route makes the case for hospitality as a critical survival skill. Essays and other contributions speak to the roles of host and guest, while sharing tactics to craft shared, convivial spaces; both in-person and, increasingly, at a distance. The route looks at the household, studio, and kitchen as spaces of engagement and creative production, while reflecting on what the practicalities of food and shelter can tell us about different understandings of home and community, across different settings. Zooming out, we stress the importance of fostering translocal kinship networks in times of turbulence and interrupted mobility. Contemplating the (many) challenges in linking people and spaces scattered across states and time zones, we look for lessons from FoAM’s own project history, evaluating the possibilities and limits of artist residencies, food and cooking, slow travel, pilgrimage, and historical systems of trade and exchange. |
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