Food mobilizes our societies, shapes our cities, and transforms our geographies, more radically than any other human energy source. For FOOD #2 Zacarías Gonzalez hosted interactive communal dinner centered around how we collectively re-imagine our food systems. Storytellers included Journei Bimwala, Chantel Kemp, DK Kinard, Alexx Caceres, and Saara Nafici.

This was the second meal in a series led by artist Zacarías González, which is meant to explore systems and ask critical questions about how we feed people, and invited us to reimagine our relationships to food systems that impact all life and land. FOOD #2 looked at how food apartheid takes shape in neighborhoods across this city, and who gets access to food and who does not. How do we take collective actions in the present and responsibilities for who gets to eat?

Zacarías González is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. His work centers on exploring ways radically rethinking the anthropogenic power structures that are rooted in domination and oppression by using them as an opportunity to create work about the necessity of interconnection in our lives. His work on the intersection of how to generate and install models for social interactions provide new ways to engage with the concept of care. The themes of his work revolve around re-signifying food from simply something we eat to how it informs space and place within our communities. González’s approach utilizes multiple mediums from long-term projects to arte útil (literally, useful art; art as a benefit and a tool) and film, performance, installation as social structure, to further explore agriculture, education, healthcare, and migration in opposition to the dominant systems of power.