Between Land and Tongue

This workshop was developed based on the research that Project Parutz’ has conducted on the milpa agricuzlture, forests, and the kitchen, understood as the political spaces that sustain everyday life in Maya communities. Parutz studies and analyzes the capacity of indigenous peoples to create a system of knowledge production around food systems. The workshop will be conducted by the founder of Project Parutz’ Edizon Cumes, Maya Kaqchikel from Semë't Ab'äj.

During this workshop, we will explore how the work of managing food from the field, and its transformation in the kitchen, goes beyond the concrete act of eating. It surpasses the logic of constructing a palate that confines food within aesthetics of taste defined by Western parameters.

Together, we will prepare a ‘salpor’, a corn-based atol, grounding the workshop in a shared experience of making and tasting.

Following the cooking session, we invite a wider audience to join us for an open conversation titled Sembrar posibilidades más allá del mundo del uno (Sowing Possibilities Beyond the World of the One). This talk will expand on themes from the workshop and draw on the work of Aura Cumes, reflecting on coloniality and the possibility of cultivating ways of being and relating that challenge singular worldviews.