Cooking Sections examines the systems that organise the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to observe landscapes in transformation. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates. In 2016 they opened The Empire Remains Shop.

Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Atlas Arts, HKW, SPACES, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cleveland Triennial, BAS9, Shanghai Biennial, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California; Fogo Island Arts; and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They were guest professors at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 2020-21. They are Senior Research Fellows and Principal Investigators at CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art, London. Since 2023 they are also Fellows at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the 2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for Being Shellfish.

They have published 3 books: The Empire Remains Shop (2018), Salmon: A Red Herring (2020), and Offsetted (2022)

Cooking Sections is Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe
Studio team: Rosa Whiteley, Remi Kuforiji

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Wallowland
Salmon: A Red Herring
Salmon: Traces of Escapees
Salmon: Feed Chains
In the Eddy of the Stream
Oyster Readings
Undamming Rivers
Becoming CLIMAVORE
To Those Who Nourish
CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
CLIMAVORE: Seasons Made to Drift
Mussel Beach
Becoming Xerophile
Offsetted
Moveable Estates
What Is Above Is What Is Below
The Empire Remains Shop
Losing Cultures
Devaluing Property Real Estate Agency
Modelling Kivalina, The Coming Storm
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