dear friends, i am a curator of contemporary arts (in vilnius, lithuania) and my practice includes programming of various events. one of them is a series of dinners of ethnic food of imaginary countries that i am goint to host in Puerto Rico next month. i enclose you a very brief description of the project below. and my question is the following: would anyone be interested to contribute (or refer to someone who might do it) a recipes of food of imaginary countries or sort of deterritorialised Pirate cousine nouvelle? it would be fantastic and i would be happy to credit as authors or collaborators of the project. thanks a lot for any response in advance. easy, raimundas Dinners with Rai Certain imaginary or fantasy countries fit neither to the category of Utopia nor to Distopia. By retaining their free status they occupy a parallel dimension which is a rather a part of everyday life instead of something external to it. Imaginary countries are fluid and pervasive, however they also occupy certain genres: travelogue, Cold War political detective of 60s and 70s, animation films, etc. In order (a) to push the domains of real and fictional into the most empiric convergence, i.e. food; (b) to play with the culture of exoticism and gastronomic tourism; © to revision the impulse for imaginary geography; (d) to learn more about the possible ways of life; (e) to create a supportive and healthy environment for a conversation about the topic above I propose to examine a set of selected imaginary countries via gastronomic perspective. Cinema and literature are the main sources of imaginary countries (like Zimlia of Doriss Lessing or Kostaricon of Stanislav Lem). A close examining of a text of a particular country would lead to a collection of data which would be given to professional chefs to be asked to design the traditional food recipes of the country (or a city).
