What did our prehistoric ancestors eat? A part of the veil on this theme will be lifted on Saturday, April 20, at 18 pm, by an artist – Jorge Rocha – and three archaeologists – Elena Morán, Isabel Soares, Rui Parreira – with the Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar as a stage in Portimao.
It is the performative action «Cooking in the landscape», created within the scope of International Day for Monuments and Sites.
This is the first of a set of initiatives of this kind that will take place in the Algarve, throughout 2013, within the scope of Palate project, in an initiative of the Sherem, with the support of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve.
Jorge Rocha explains that «the Palate it focuses on the intersection between art, gastronomy and heritage and, emerging from an essentially virtual space, it enhances the dissemination and artistic and scientific creation».
The starting point of this Palate is «commensality», seeking to «address themes related to art, gastronomy and material and immaterial heritage, as well as extending this intersection to other sciences, connecting people and projects that identify with the proposal and that have the Refined palate in synesthesia with the project menu».
«Cooking in the landscape» is developed in monuments where the surroundings of its territory translates into the collection of information about the gastronomy of the period, crossing with the eating habits of contemporary society.
In each historic site, an improvised infrastructure is set up where the artist, together with the researchers of the monuments, develops an action in format Tourism Village Talk Show, where live cooking, broadcasting live on the internet and putting physical and virtual audiences into synaesthesia.
Starting from a menu «based on the references found between the lines of archeology and taking into account the unique characteristics of each location, we intend to approach landscape and heritage factors with a focus on each location», adds Jorge Rocha.
Thus, artistic creation emerges «anchored not only in a need to, horizontally, investigate the territories and borders between the arts and sciences, but also in an interest in cuisine and its technical and cultural processes as an approachable material from an artistic point of view, entering an expanded territory, in which aesthetics defines itself in human relationships, established through events marked by food with the intersection of the virtual world».
As part of the International Day of Monuments and Sites, which includes a vast program in several of the most important monuments in the Algarve, in Alcalar there will also be an afternoon dedicated to prehistoric times, which includes a historical recreation of daily life in a prehistoric community, with workshops for weaving, pottery, milling, hunting, music, and a guided tour to the monument, with the archeologist Elena Morán (17:30).
cooking in the landscape
A performative action by Jorge Rocha
With the participation of Elena Morán, Isabel Soares, Rui Parreira
Alcalar Megalithic Monuments
April 20, 18:00 pm
Visit guided by Elena Morán
17:30 pm
Data sheet:
Artistic Coordination: Jorge Rocha
Scientific Coordination: Elena Morán
Production: Carmo Serpa
An initiative of the XEREM
With the support:
Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve
Portimão Municipal Museum
LAC – Creative Activities Laboratory
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