flour must be…: learning session 1

Common Ground welcomes you to the first activation of Flour Must Be Cheap, an installation that becomes a learning space, and a work site. We begin with a question: Flour must be cheap? From there, we let it unfold through stories, bodies, knowings, and speculations— these become the curriculum.

Above us, a constellation of collected flour bags. Beneath us, sacks holding the weight of hunger, of resistance, of distance traveled from field to mill to bakery to hand. We’ll lie with that weight, carry it, rearrange it, and feel what it does to the body, how pressure grounds us, how heaviness speaks through us.

Together we’ll move through conversations about food systems, mills and grain, food autonomy, aid, and famine, and the quiet violence of a price that was never really just about the mere cost of flour. Bring your stories, questions, and hands, and join this learning session with Common Ground to experience the contrast of lightness and heaviness of “ Flour must be cheap?”.

For this event our normal entry ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit.

Spots are limited, reserve your spot via Eventbrite.Common Ground is a collaborative artistic project by Anna Celda and Saja Amro. Using the dining table and kitchen as learning environments, their projects delve into topics such as female labour, inherited knowledge, and food/famine as a tool for control through different research objects. Their work often materialises in spaces of shared labour, such as workshops or moments spent cooking together, where the conversations and sensory experiences are at the center, sparking reflection and connection with one another.