Whose knowledge counts? A food laboratory

What forms of knowledge are present in the museum, and which are eliminated? This laboratory invites participants to deliberate how colonial structures shape, order, and homogenize life for their own convenience. At the center of this experiment, rellenitos —a fried plantain dessert filled with sweet beans, created in Mayan territories— reincarnate colonial systems and the domination of nature, while at the same time revealing the capacity of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to reconstruct their existence and reclaim the world, even in times of extermination.

Under the direction of Edizon Cumes (Project Parutz'), participants will gather around a table, and the simple act of eating will be transformed into a pedagogical practice that redefines food and its land-based governance through actions that generate concrete knowledge and sustain everyday life in colonized territories. The gathering will culminate in a collective reflection that opens a space for the exploration of unresolved contradictions, the emergence of solidarities, and the imaginative construction of radically different hierarchies of knowledge. Moderated by Azucena Morán (RIFS/GloCAN).