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Cooking Sections

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Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) is a duo of spatial practitioners based out of London. It was born to explore the systems that organise the world through food. Using installation, performance, mapping, and video, their research-based practice explores the overlapping boundaries between visual arts, architecture, and geopolitics.

Since 2015, they have been working on multiple iterations of the long-term site-specific ‘CLIMAVORE’ project exploring how to eat as the climate changes. In 2016, they opened ‘The Empire Remains Shop’ in London, a platform to critically speculate on the implications of selling the remains of Empire today. Their first book about the project was published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

Grand Union’s collaboration began in 2019, with the Birmingham franchise of ‘The Empire Remains Shop’, which ran until 2020 before becoming Field Commissions in 2021.

A landscape image of an open book laid out on a cream table-top. The white pages are filled with colourful square illustrations that evoke postage stamps, featuring images such as palm trees and landscapes.

The Empire Remains Shop

A landscape illustration featuring a colourful world map. Colonial trade routes are highlighted within the map, and colonised locations, such as India, Southern Africa, and Australia are highlighted in red compared to pale yellow of Europe and the United States. The edge of the map features celestial illusrrations of the moon and sun. Across the top of the map, a white banner reads 'Highways of Empire'.

Empire and Birmingham

A landscape image of a large-scale pastel-coloured billboarded painted onto the side of a dark-brick building. The dark building contracts against the bright blue, clear sky, the tone of which is echoed in the billboard. The billboard contains yellow writing that reads 'In a hostile environment, respectability will not save you'.

Alberta Whittle, ‘No Mudder Country Here’

A landscape image of the Digbeth Branch canal and canal side. The still water of the canal reflects the bright blue of the clear sky. The canal is bordered by dark brick walls and buildings that are covered in bright, scrawling graffiti. The bank of the canalside gently slopes upwards from the path, and holds several bare trees in it's muddy earth.

Field Commissions