Flows and Seasons

During the opening weekend of our project UNRAVELING THE (UNDER-)DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX, we cordially invite you to this workshop with artist Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson whose work is also included in the exhibtion. The workshop involves post-producing popular food from West Africa and Germany such as millet porridges and pretzel. The food will be post-produced into myriad forms like bioplastic films, fabric like textures, and petal forms, etc.

The workshop is an experimental kitchen where food could be played with beyond factoring the human palate in order to highlight the vital agencies of temperature, humidity, fermentation, viscosity within material transformations. With cultural and economic transformations which are enmeshed and equally informed by flows and seasons we also find within cooking.

Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson is a Ghanaian artist living and working in Kumasi and Accra. She is currently a Fine Art (Ph.D) student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. Thompson has an independent practice within the post-production of food and non-human agencies in artistic production, which are profoundly influenced by the emancipatory teachings of the pedagogue karî’kạchä seid’ou. Thompson in recent times explores the topography or “micro-landscapes’ within the substrates of her mutated food polymers. Thompson’s work has featured in Cornfields in Accra (2016) and Orderly Disorderly (2017), organized by blaxTARLINES KUMASI in Accra, Ghana. She participated in the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennial (2020) in South Africa. She also participated in the exhibition Of Materials and Things, which was part of the Saison Africa 2020, curated by the Exit Frame collective in Roubaix, France (2021). Alongside Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Adwoa Amoah,Thompson co-curated the retrospective exhibition of Agyeman Ossei: Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace for at the Savanna Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (2021). In 2022, she exhibited at SCCA group exhibition: Existing Otherwise – Future of Coexistence. Currently, she curates for Compound House Gallery in Accra.