Reading: On Being Familiar

In the event On Being Familiar, visual artist and writer Marta Fernández Calvo proposes a reflection on the familiar and the domestic in processes of migration, adaptation andconviviality within new spaces, cultures and territories. On Being Familiar stems from the KEX Residency, the artist-in-residence programme carried out by her between October and November 2023 alongside artist Elia Nurvista from Indonesia.

The event consists of a reading of the short story Bonsai Pine that Marta has written for this occasion in the framework of the project The GOAT PoL (the Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature). This reading will open a space for conversation and will be formalized in a recipe that will be offered to the participants.

Bonsai Pine has been edited by Niels Bekkema.

The reading will be held in English.

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Marta Fernández Calvo lives and works in Madrid. Her situated practice is centred on performativity and the immaterial. She strives to create collective situations of care and reciprocity activated through cooking cultures and storytelling. This engagement and the processes that stem from it translate into ephemeral interventions in art spaces and galleries, public and domestic contexts

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Originally On Being Familiar was planned as a spatial intervention and workshop by Elia Nurvista and Marta Fernández Calvo. Due to problems with the visa, this had to be cancelled. The workshop would have proposed a collective exercise to reimagine food while reflecting on labour and care, based on the activation of a series of recipes and objects.