We celebrate Chris Salas’s exhibition, Forms of Remembrance, with an afternoon of conversations. Arrive at 1 pm for a tasting featuring OK, Mmmm! (Open Kitchen, Milwaukee masa mole mill!). Using ingredients harvested from Lynden Cultural Garden, which they steward, and their urban garden in Riverwest, Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen produce a “Midsummer Mole.” The mole will be accompanied by fresh masa tortillas milled from a Meadowlark Wisconsin Red Corn.
Open Kitchen will be joined by the artist at 2 pm to inaugurate a cross draft earth kiln + cooking station, and to discuss adobe brick-making and the science behind firing rudimentary earth kilns.
At 3 pm, we return to the gallery where Salas will be joined by Korina Victoria Hernandez, a curatorial assistant at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, for a conversation about the exhibition.
About Open Kitchen, Milwaukee masa mole mill!
OK, Mmmm! Is a project that uses hyperlocal, seasonal ingredients and aims to challenge homogenous food norms. The program features a traveling corn mill that processes culturally significant ingredients, recipes, and narratives to produce varieties of masa formations (tortillas, atole, tlacoyos, tamales, etc.) alongside mole sauces –resulting in a conversation on environmental diversification by the expansion of the public palate.
About Korina Victoria Hernandez
Korina Hernandez is a Chicago-based curator focused on social practice in Queer and Latin communities as well as media-based art. They received their BA from Wellesley College and their Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a New Artists Society Scholar. Korina is currently on the curatorial team at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where they are supporting various shows such as City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism and the MCA presentations of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind and Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers. Hernandez curates independently within the Chicago-land area and maintains her art practice rooted in the digitization of Mesoamerican antiquities for accessibility.
