Ronald Kolb
Post-Exhibitionary Practice

https://callforcurators.com/call/zhdk-summer-school-2026-encounters-with-taste/

Organisation and teaching of the Baustein Encounters with Taste: Arts, Food, and Political Ecology
for the Summer School 2026, Centre for Continuing Education, ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland,
28–30 August 2026

The Summer School explored food and taste as aesthetic, social, and political practices within contemporary art and curating. Moving between art-historical references and current artistic positions, it investigated how culinary practices have been mobilized as artistic strategies to address questions of sustainability, care, community, global politics and ecological responsibility.

Understanding the culinary as a form of social and relational practice, the course examined food not only as material or medium, but as a site where power relations, knowledge systems, and cultural imaginaries intersect and political dimensions of food production and distribution, including global supply chains, extractivism, neocolonial continuities may be made visible by artistic practices that critically intervene in these structures.

Historical and contemporary case studies will be discussed to highlight the potentials and ambivalences of working with food in artistic contexts, foregrounding questions of ethics, sustainability, and situated practice.