C-DaRE Invites... Online

As part of our C-DaRE invites… online series we are delighted to invite you to the first of our live online events.

Dr Miche Fabre Lewin - “Living Cultures: Cooking with the Artful Body Mind” 


Tuesday 12th May 11:00 – 12:30

We will be joining Dr Miche Fabre Lewin and Dr Flora Gathorne-Hardy, who together form Touchstone ecological arts and research practice (www.touchstones.earth), while they share and explore Miche’s practice theory research.

Taste of... This online gathering prepares the ground for an embodied encounter between us all with a food sharing ritual at C-DaRE in Autumn 2020.

Nature of the performative encounter 

Within the habitat of a kitchen studio, Miche invites you to a performative ritual with a Cupboard of Love, botanical elixirs, biodiversity in a bowl, and musings with a sourdough leaven.

Brew Sharing 

To enliven our artful bodyminds, we invite you to prepare a life-giving brew - herb/flower infusions, homemade drinks or broth, fermented beverages, fresh water, or any other – to be revitalizing us during our collective response and discussion at noon. The C-DaRE Invites… series seeks not only to share research but also to share nourishment as part of the process.

How to Join

The event will take place on Zoom. If you are interested in participating please email cdare.fah@coventry.ac.uk. More details about the event and how to join will be shared once you have registered your interest with us.

Miche describes her research here

My practice research innovates the concept of the ‘artful bodymind’. This  enlivens the understanding that body and mind are interconnected and that knowing comes through our embodied and interactive experience of the matter of life and is in a dynamic, sensuous encounter with naturecultures. My doctoral fieldwork ‘Living Cultures: kitchen culture meets agriculture’ unfolded as ritual workshops within an Artist Research Residency at the Sustainability Institute in South Africa. My contribution to knowledge is a Sympoietic Ritual Methodology that creates the conditions for the artful bodymind to experience ‘sympoiesis’ - a ‘making-with’ and a cooperation with the other-than-human world. These culinary, artisan and convivial encounters cultivate the ground for an ethics of care in the everyday. To know more please visit www.touchstones.earth/artful bodymind.

Biography

Miche’s practice explores the ecological self and emerges from her Zimbabwean and French roots and a background in radical art therapy. In 2010 she co-founded Touchstone ecological arts and research practice (www.touchstones.earth) with Dr Flora Gathorne-Hardy. They are collaborative Artist Research Associates at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, where Miche completed her practice-theory doctoral research.