The Food Library Project was a three-part workshop focused on the concept of radical hospitality, and what it means to sustain ourselves and our communities in a world often hostile to care and mediated by technology.

Part one of the workshop involved digital mapping through space, experience and theory. Part two of the workshop was a break between online sessions, where participants were given an online folder of materials to reflect on the first workshop and probe thoughts for the next. The third and final part of these workshops involved a synchronous online dinner party, where we explored commoning and sharing through the digital space.

Exploring ideas of the extended self, the mapping of food networks, sites of scarcity and plenty in our communities, and concluding with communal sharing of food and an exploration of ways to sustain care.

gart (hospitality as gaeilge) is a collaboration between El Reid-Buckley and Danny Brennan. The artists independently have backgrounds in creative writing, socially-engaged art, community organising and workshop facilitation—working through a wide variety of mediums including zine making, curation, film and digital art-making. Reid-Buckley and Brennan look to make art as a means of building communities that challenge and interrogate power structures. As a collaboration, gart seeks to explore ways we can build new kinds of togetherness inside the fractured shell of the world. gart merges critical (queer) theories with the practices and praxis of mutual aid and DIY cultures. This collaborative practice has spanned many mediums including visual art, literature, culinary arts, and even parties.