Saturday, April 18, 6–8PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 60
Free
For the closing of Marooning Bodies: Prototype as Prophecy, we invite you to gather one last time—to witness, to taste, and to carry the work forward.
In collaboration with Hazards Kitchen, Marooning Bodies presents Edible Relics: small, self-contained bites drawn from future histories. Each relic is shaped by African diasporic food pathways, the improvisational food cultures of the U.S. South, and the familiar ritual of the gas station snack.
Through charring, curing, and pickling—through burning away, preserving, and returning—each bite moves through the cycles communities know well: loss, memory, adaptation, and renewal. These gestures hold the grief of what has been taken, the wisdom stored in the body, and the slow process of becoming otherwise.
Marooning Bodies: Edible Relics honors the ingenuity born from limitation, the migrations and exchanges carried through food, and the futures we rehearse through play.
This project is made possible with the support of the Lightning Fund, a re-granting program administered by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hazard Kitchen is a Los Angeles based supper club and culinary project founded by Zoë Jennings in 2022. Centered at the intersection of food, history, and storytelling, the work explores memory, community, and transformation through composed menus and collaborative experiences. Drawing from cultural traditions, historical references, and lived experience, Hazard Kitchen creates intimate environments where food becomes both offering and reflection.
Mims is the founder of Marooning Bodies, and is behind the curation and creative direction of the project’s many expansions. She is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work moves across performance art, advocacy, public art, social practice, and fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Through an ongoing exploration of relationship between self, others, land, and more than human life, Mims grounds her practice in embodied knowing. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world.
Muoi is behind the creative direction, research, and design for Marooning Bodies. They begin with the practice of research as a declaration of love. Their body of work is born from this process. Each project comes as a search for new ways to hold community; in search of new ways to write love letters. They create from a framework that holds imagining and remembering as two sides of the same coin. By their hands— research not only provides a home for historic context, but generates new paths towards wonder, and imbues projects with meaningful action on the issues of our present. From film, to the written word, to painting, to spatial and graphic design, their interdisciplinary practice is sharpened by the call to bring collective dreams into our waking lives. With a background in architecture, law, and public policy, they navigate multiple mediums to manifest budding ideas into living, breathing projects.