Food Workshop
Location: Food Lab at The Foundry

✨ City Drink
🗓️ 7 March, 2025 | 1 – 2 pm

Conducted by Kuei-Pi Li

Venue: The Foundry, Cambridge, MA.
Address: 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots.

The City Drink project is based on the observation of water systems within the city and their impact on daily life. Water provision is a key aspect of public infrastructure in building a community or city. However, most urban designs create a significant distance between residents and water, as well as its ecology. This means people interact with water primarily for drinking, cleaning, or other practical purposes, without a broader understanding of its role in the city’s landscape. Water also structures the base taste of food in a city, through the technology of fermentation and brewing, it becomes alcohol and other drinks to support the spirits of the inner and outer world.

This project would like to invite participants to brew Boston-style drinks using collected urban water, encouraging them to rethink the relationship between people and their environment. Note: Due to local climate factors, brewing may take 5-7 days before it’s ready for drinking. The entire process must be kept clean and pollution-free to ensure the safety of drinkers. This workshop only provides production methods, and participants will bring the semi-finished products back home.

About artist:
LI Kuei-Pi (b. 1991, Tainan, Taiwan) currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. Over the years, her work has been focusing on the neglected landscapes and exchange network in the context of globalization. Through fieldwork methods adopted from different disciplines, archival reading, and reenactments of history, she uses videos, objects, performances, workshops, and writings as the main forms for her art projects. For her, art projects are means of creating platforms for idea exchange and inspiring discussion. She was a Finalist of Taishin Arts Award(2024), the Judges’ Choice Award of Taoyuan International Art Award (2023), Next Art Tainan Awards (2022), Gold Award of Kaohsiung Awards (2021), Merit Award of Taipei Art Awards (2020)

• Prospect St
• North Station (Lovejoy Wharf)
• Boston Public Market

• Boston Public Garden
• Fresh Pond Reservation
• MIT Campus

• Parking lot at Google Campus
• Brothers Marketplace

Organization: Transcultural Exchange International Conference
Presented by SUAVEART
Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Department of Cultural Affairs Taipei City Government
Special Thanks: TASA, Mary Sherman, Jin-Man Pei, Bob Moran, Mary, Sam Estabrook, Michele Lauriat

Visual Design: Kuei-Pi Li