Taste of Transformation continues Dana’s residency at Lomeshaye Park in 2024, following a series of public events and workshops exploring food politics. That phase culminated in a ‘Slow Feast’, where community members led their own food-related events.
Previously, through work with In-situ, Dana investigated broader issues in food politics, particularly from the perspectives of Nelson residents with migrant and refugee backgrounds. Based on these collaborations and feedback, Dana now returns to co-create an intergenerational Food Politics Curriculum.
This hands-on, creative programme will bring This is Nelson’s Food Manifesto to life, making its principles accessible, participatory and actionable. In collaboration with local organisations, venues, community groups and individuals, Dana will coordinate a series of public sessions that are free and open to all. These will include site visits, practical workshops and food politics debates held over shared community meals, in both public and dedicated spaces.
Taste of Transformation highlights the importance of food justice and collective action, turning food politics from theory into lived experience, one meal, one conversation and one action at a time.
The first public activity this summer is the FOOD Nelson Pop-Up at Pendle Festival of Culture in Nelson from 12-5pm, more information here!
Dana Olărescu is a London-based socially engaged artist working at the intersection of installation, performance, and social design, whose practice challenges minority exclusion & environmental injustice. Through participatory methodologies that democratise access to art & knowledge, she aims to give under-served migrant groups and people habitually excluded from decision-making processes the agency to become active co-producers of culture.
This project is co-commissioned with In-situ as part of This is Nelson.
