Ampersand Paris. Photo by Lexi Adams.
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Curious about picking up an apocalypse skill? Shedding tears of climate grief on your commute to work? If so, read on. Facilitated by artist and fermentation revivalist Ampersand Paris, Boiling Point is a practical food preservation workshop and guided writing practice intended to deepen each participant's connection with their surrounding micro- and macro-ecologies.
The in-person workshop will include a brief overview of food preservation techniques, the creation of an infusion using seasonal fruits, and opening writing prompts. As the infusions develop over the next three months, the group will be encouraged to follow this process through a continuous writing practice, participating in (optional) remote check-ins in pairs or groups to share their writing. At the culmination of the infusion process, the group will organize a convivial gathering to sip their infusions and hear each other’s work.
Jars, fruit, and solvents will be provided. A non-alcoholic option is available on request by emailing Anna Muselmann, Programs Manager, at anna@cprnyc.org.
Ampersand Paris is an interdisciplinary performing artist and fermentation revivalist currently cultivating a trans-microbiopolitic for making and being. They concern themselves with taking care of nearly invisible things: bacteria, yeast, lines of code, and the liminal space of trans existence. Their overlapping processes of fermentation, decomposition, self-portraiture, computer programming, and performance improvisation build relationships to these invisible forces and illuminate their world-shaping impacts. Their desire is to learn the technologies of the small in order to care for big transformations necessary to survive, if not effervesce, in climate ruin.