Framer Framed

28 Oct 2024
10:00 - 12:00

Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo

Come by Werkplaats Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord on Monday 28 October 2024 for a book presentation and workshop uncovering some of the histories behind coffee, with artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán from the project Proyecto Cocuyo. The morning includes a coffee tasting workshop and the launch of their publication Cocuyo, including a communal reading and a contribution by Framer Framed guest researcher Elham Puriya Mehr. Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo takes place from 10:00 -12:00 at Werkplaats Molenwijk on Molenaarsweg 3-5.

In 2017, artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán moved to a rural area in Cundinamarca, Colombia. They settled in a family home that once belonged to Guzmán’s grandparents. The house, built in the early 20^th century, holds the history of Colombia. An abandoned mill, a royal road, a highway, train track ruins, coffee and the mountain all contribute to its wild, inaccessible character. While living there and managing the Cocuyo Art Residency, both artists became farmers, cultural managers and part of the local community of a small town in the eastern Andes Mountain range. They discuss this project, called Proyecto Cocuyo, in their new book Cocuyo.

Cocuyo is a publication Tomimori and Guzmán developed during their residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The book compiles texts, images and memories of Proyecto Cocuyo, their initiative aimed at restoring a traditional agroforestry coffee farm located in a Colombian mist forest. Other contributors are Emily Shin-Jie Lee, Sylvia Suárez and Tania Fuentes. The artworks and photographies were made by Proyecto Cocuyo members and previous artists-in-residence Nicolas Baresch, Tania Fuentes & Camilo Cuervo, Andrea Marín, Álvaro Cabrejo, Karen Moya and Andrés Salas.

Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo is a book presentation and workshop looking for hidden histories behind the coffee supply chain while presenting the differences between coffees, their taste, flavour and production methods. During the workshop the participants join a coffee tasting session, comparing the smell and flavour of four different arabica and robusta coffees while they are being read from Cocuyo.

This workshop is specifically aimed at Molenwijk residents. The workshop and communal reading will be in Dutch, English and Spanish.

Sign up here or contact Sterre to sign up:  +316 83799672 / sterre@framerframed.nl

This event takes place at Werkplaats Molenwijk, Molenaarsweg 3-5 in Amsterdam-Noord.

About

Ana Tomimori has a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at University of Sao Paulo. Besides her recent work that is related to her life experience in the Colombian countryside, her interests are based on decoloniality in relation with Asian activism in Brazil. Her multimedia work frequently talks about Latin America, gender and non-fix identity. She participated in exhibitions such as the 1st Frestas Triennale (Sao Paulo 2015), Pós-Poéticas (University of Sao Paulo Art Space, 2017) and the Winners of the 22nd Youth Art Show (Sao Paulo, 2012). She received the Ibere Camargo National Grant for an art residency and solo exhibition in Kiosko Gallery (Bolívia, 2012).

Carlos Guzman has a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at University of Sao Paulo. The expressive retaking of both urban and rural spaces, farming, ecology and the critical thinking on political history are some of the themes that run through his artistic practice. He works with urban intervention, sound, performance, photography and video. The exhibitions he has featured in include the Limburg Biënnale 2024, New Names of The Art Museum of Colombia’s central bank (2018), the 49th and 52nd Cartagena International Film Festival, The Public Domain – Delfina Foundation (2014) and the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2013).

Carlos Felipe Guzmán and Ana Tomimori from Proyecto Cocuyo

This event is in English, Dutch and Spanish. Admission is free.

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Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Agenda

Network

Emily Shin-Jie Lee

Public program and research

Elham Puriya Mehr

Curator, Onderzoeker