Food Workshop
Location: Food Lab at The Foundry

✨ Tracing Palettes on the Dining Table
🗓️ 7 March, 2025 | 4 – 5 pm

Conducted by Sharo Liang

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.

Dining is a ritual that blends multiple sensory elements, often serving as a way to reconnect people with the land and their cultural heritage. Ingredients closely tied to the ecosystem frequently reflect the historical relationships formed between humans and non-humans under the influence of colonization. This workshop uses cloves as a focal material to explore its plant-centered history, reexamining humanity’s dominance over nature.

By cooking dishes that incorporate cloves, the workshop aims to evoke participants’ memories and explore the connection between humans and the land through shared meals. Participants are invited to share personal experiences and stories related to specific ingredients, offering a new perspective on the formation of food culture. Ultimately, the workshop provides a platform for participants to experience and reflect on food from a fresh perspective, extending the imagination from cultural and familial connections to personal identity.

About Artist:
Sharo is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese artist and researcher focusing on belonging, migration, and identity within changing cultural landscapes. Utilizing ethnographic studies and visual art, she examines how personal memory and material life shape identity. Her 2023–24 project, “Invisible Trajectory,” involved reviving the house collection of late modernist Chinese-Indonesian architect Herianto Sulindro in Zurich. With an anthropology background centered on the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, Sharo tends to blend research with performance to create participatory art and workshops, bridging academia and artistic expression to offer new perspectives on cultural adaptation and self-definition.

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, Michele Lauriat

Visual Design: Sharo Liang