Un-Tabled is a learning series by Food and Art Research Network (FAR) in which artists from our global network come together, through dialogue or hands-on workshops.

For our first session, Mexican artist Beatriz Paz Jiménez will guide us through relational ecopedagogy rituals, awakening our territorial pleasure through the exploration of edible or medicinal wild plants. This will be a ludic and sensorial gathering. This participatory session will be hosted by Brazilian artist Joana Quiroga.

For millennia, edible wild plants have composted soil, healed the land, and modeled radical freedom and mutual care across species—a living example of solidarity in its purest form.

How can we translate these lessons? What happens in our bodies when we experience them?

Edible wild plants are woven into the ancestral history of our guts, passed down from our great-great-great-great-grandparents. No matter where we come from, we are bond by the wild and now, more than ever, it's crucial that we re learn our relational biocultural practices of co-creation with them.

Come for a symbolic ritual, a collective healing, to imprint our bond with each plant with visions of profound care, to wish for futures shaped by entangled biodiversity, protected by our bare hands, in the pursuit of freedom for all human and non-human life.

What do you need to know?

When you sign in to the workshop, please fill out the form or send the name of the plant(s) you will bring to the session. Beatriz will research the qualities and benefits of your plant(s) and share them in the materials that she will provide to the group. The more wild edible plants, the merrier.

This is a virtual session. Each session runs for about 1 hour and a half to 2 hours.

We ask for a sliding-scale voluntary contribution between $3–$15 (USD) based on your affordability. Your support helps us sustain the collective labor that brings this series to your table, including the bare essential needs of the network.

The results of the experimental activities, plus the info about the plants brought to the session, will transform into a digital zine, which you will receive the week after the workshop.

ABOUT

Food and Art Research Network:

FAR is a constellation of established artists and cultural workers engaging with the politics and aesthetics of food. It is a network of living relations that nurtures peer learning, exchanges, and encounters in and beyond the field of art.

@food_art_research_network

Beatriz Paz Jiménez:

Beatriz is a writer, researcher, artist, and cultural organizer, working at the intersection of social communication, participatory art, and prefigurative politics. Her practice seeks to reconnect urban communities with traditional ecological knowledge embedded in food and food systems

IG: @beatrizpaz

Joana Quiroga:

Joana Quiroga is a philosopher who became a visual artist to give Philosophy a closer presence to everyday life. Working with different mediums, she investigates how different power relations can live hidden in our daily lives, specially in food.

@iamajoq

Timezones

Mexico City, Mexico

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 10:00 CST

São Paulo, Brazil

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 13:00 BRT

Los Angeles, United States

Sat, 5 July 2025 a las 9:00 PDT

London, UK

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 17:00 BST

Cape Town, South Africa

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 18:00 SAST

Helsinki, Finland

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 19:00 EEST

New Delhi, India

Sat, 5 July 2025 at 21:30 PET

Photo: Rubén Garay/Cocina Colaboratorio