1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Current: LA FOOD Public Art Triennial included over 50 artists and community partners to shed light on the precarious balance between pleasure and peril found in food today, and the many ways food gives expression to social and political life. For this initiative, I collaborated with Bed & Breakfast for their program Solar Cooking, in which I co-built a series of solar cookers and designed a zine that illustrated energy-efficient cooking processes. Solar Cooking included a series of hands-on workshops that taught community members how to fabricate and use a solar box cooker, among other solar cooking techniques. Each workshop offered participants a free meal and tea cooked with the sun. Current: LA Food was organized by the ICA LA and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Installation view, Roger Jessup Park, Pacoima, CA
(from left to right) Solar Panel Cooker, Parabolic Cooker, Solar Box Cooker
Baking bread with a solar box cooker
Jacqueline Falcone, founder of Bed & Breakfast, preparing a meal for workshop participants.Falcone is an independent curator and baker based in LA. Her curatorial approach is rooted in community building as she explores the connections between art and hospitality.
For each Solar Cooking workshop, Bed & Breakfast utilized a box, panel, and parabolic solar cooker to feed all participants a meal of vegetarian stew, bread, and tea. Workshops took place at Roger Jessup Park in Pacoima throughout October, 2019.
Members of the community joined B&B to learn about various methods of cooking with the sun. The program included a hands-on workshop for building DIY box cookers.
Cooking s'mores with a DIY solar box cooker! Yum!
Cook with the Sun includes DIY instructions for building various solar cookers, recipes and artist contributions. Please reach out for a free PDF of the zine. Printed copies are also available at the ICA Los Angeles.