Cooking Memory is a performance by Mexican artist Lia García that deals with tenderness and love as spaces of resistance. In times of violence towards trans lives, where does the resistance come from? What does it mean to touch? What stories are told in the kitchen? Broken lives are important and it is time to talk about ourselves in a space of intimacy, memory, and affection.
Lía García ‘La Novia Sirena’ (Mexico, 1989) is a poet and performance artist. Her actions take form of affective encounters in public spaces, where a pedagogical and radical tenderness takes place through the caress, touch, and the voice, echoing the fissures in a system that hides and annihilates trans women’s lives. Lia transforms the performative act into an intimate scar, one of justice and memory for dissident bodies.
Lia was a Southern Constellations Fellow in 2017 and returned to build upon her residency project for a special residency in 2021.
