THE PREMIERE OF THE DOCUMENTARY
"THE LAST INGREDIENTS" BY MIRALDA
AS SEEN ON
TIDE BY SIDE
AN ARTISTIC PROCESSIONAL PERFORMANCE
MARCH 1ST, 2024
FAENA HOTEL SCREENING ROOM
Followed by talk with artist Antoni Miralda and Karen Grimson, Curator, Miami Design District.
TIDE BY SIDE
FAENA ART COMMISSIONED A CIVIC RITUAL TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF FAENA FORUM, A NEW CULTURAL EPICENTER DESIGNED BY REM KOOLHAAS/OMA
Building upon parades, carnivals, and other public ceremonials from across the Americas and the Caribbean, Tide by Side inaugurated the Faena District Miami Beach with new commissions of works by an international cast of artists and performers. The outcome of a two-year collaboration on an unprecedented district-and city-wide scale, with more than 30 South Florida cultural institutions and hundreds of participants, Tide by Side took the form of a processional performance that provided a framework for a collective celebration of, and reflection on, themes of community and creation.
Under the artistic direction of Claire Tancons, in collaboration with Arto Lindsay, musical director and Gia Wolff, architectural director.
Featuring Miralda, Carlos Betancourt, Carnival Arts, Los Carpinteros, and Marinella Senatore, with a special guest appearance by Ernesto Neto.
FAENA MIAMI BEACH, NOVEMBER 2016
These ingredients were the basis for experimental dishes made for the event by teams of renowned Miami Beach restaurant/ hotel Chefs and Miami Street Food Trucks.
The performance celebrated the integration of native ingredients with fusion street food and cooking traditions from various cultures reflecting Miami's melting pot.
For The Last Ingredients, a fairy tale of the raw and the cooked presented as a food parade, Miralda had formed seven teams of seven restaurant chefs and seven food truck chefs each to take up that challenge.
Each team, in turn, had chosen an ingredient from Miralda’s selection (pineapple, alligator, conch, swamp cabbage, sweet potato, turkey, and corn) to collaborate on unique new recipes that blended their expertise in street food and gastronomic dining, baking, roasting, open-fire cooking, marinating, and other techniques and traditions of food preparation.
Each new dish had been distributed in tasting size bites by the food trucks, bringing a food festival flair to the Faena District and opening the audience’s palates and hearts to new culinary experiences and cultural appreciation.
Furthermore, the performance celebrated the integration of native ingredients with fusion street food and cooking traditions from various cultures, reflecting Miami's melting pot. The collaborative efforts of the chefs showcased not only their individual skills but also highlighted the rich diversity of flavors and culinary heritage that define the vibrant food scene in Miami.
Antoni Miralda
Miralda (b. 1942, Spain) has been harnessing the power of food through research and rituals for over five decades. Invested in the ethnology and sociology of food as much as its taste and aesthetics, Miralda produces large-scale, participatory events and other gatherings that summon up visions of a world long thought to have been lost to more communal times. The most emblematic project in this respect is his Food Culture Museum, a “museum without walls” that stages events and explores social practices through food. His work has been presented in Documenta; at the Venice, São Paulo, and Istanbul biennials; and has been the topic of numerous museum exhibitions, including a 2010 retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Madeinusa, an upcoming exhibition at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, explores his collaborative methodology throughout the span of his American projects, of which Miami Global Banquet is the latest.
Karen Grimson
Karen Grimson is Curator for Craig Robins Collection and Director of Cultural Programming at the Miami Design District. She holds degrees in art history from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she developed the MA dissertation that informed the current exhibition “Sarah Grilo: The New York Years, 1962-1970” at Galerie Lelong, New York. Between 2011 and 2020, she worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York developing acquisitions and exhibitions of art from Latin America, such as “Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern”, “Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil” and “Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift”. She taught courses on Brazilian Modernism and contributed articles to the MoMA publications Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, Being Modern: Building the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, and Joaquín Torres-García, as well as the Museum’s online platforms Magazine and post. notes on art in a global context. Her writings have also been published in Artforum, Vistas: Critical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, and Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica.