Résumés
Résumé
Ce récit de pratique artistique du duo Place Courage s’attache à explorer les enjeux soulevés par Le banquet des plats perdus du Nord, une oeuvre présentée au printemps 2025 au Musée McCord Stewart dans le cadre du FIKA(S), festival immersif de Kultur et d’art nordique et scandinave. Pendant une année, le collectif a parcouru différents territoires Nordiques pour recueillir des récits de plats perdus — ces souvenirs de mets ou d’ingrédients que l’on ne peut plus goûter. À travers ces histoires, l’oeuvre interroge la mémoire alimentaire et les liens entre patrimoine alimentaire, territoire et transformations sociales, écologiques et culturelles. L'oeuvre est pensée comme un espace de partage et de réactivation des mémoires, où la pratique artistique agit comme un geste de réparation et de transmission.
Mots-clés :
- pratiques artistiques,
- transmission culturelle,
- territoire,
- nordicité,
- sécurisation alimentaire
Abstract
In this account of their artistic practice, the duo Place Courage explores the issues raised by “The Lost Food Banquet of the North”, a work presented in Spring 2025 at the McCord Stewart Museum as part of FIKA(S), an immersive festival of Nordic and Scandinavian Kultur and art. For a year, the collective traveled throughout various Nordic territories to collect stories of lost meals—memories of dishes or ingredients that can no longer be tasted. Through these stories, the work questions food memory and the links between culinary heritage, territory, and social, ecological, and cultural transformations. The work is conceived as a space for sharing and reactivating memories, where artistic practice acts as a gesture of repair and transmission.
Keywords:
- art practices,
- intergenerational transmission,
- territory,
- nordicity,
- food sovereignty
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