LA CARNA ASADA
Since 2017 La Carna Asada has been seeking to question the gender dynamics around the social rite of carnes asadas, grilling gatherings that are extremely traditional to northern Mexico. The project is born from observing the typical carnes asadas, held each weekend by families at home: traditionally it’s men outside, in charge of the fire and grilling the meat, and women inside, setting the table, making salsa and tortillas. While kitchens are codified as a ‘feminine’ cooking space, grilling is a ‘masculine’ form of cooking, a dichotomy of domestic-public, inside-outside, replicated at home, but resonating with gender and power structures at work on a large scale, out in the world. La Carna Asada opens up a safe space to collectively question the ways in which we relate within norteño culture, and to imagine other possible dynamics, more horizontal and inclusive ways to cook & exist together, sharing our food & work as a way of life.2017 - PRESENT
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PAOS GDL
PRRAS! CDMX
ESPACIO EN BLANCO
LABORATORIO ARTE AC
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