Mending The Salt Bone

Coined by Lee, Black Food Futurism is a radical artistic and culinary practice. With "Mending the Salt Bone: A Black Food Futurism Participatory Performance and Tasting", Lee continues the expansion of her practice into immersive sculpture, creating a site where food, spirit, and community converge. As part of the installation participants will encounter an interactive tasting that activates the work and invites participants to experience food as a springboard for collective dreaming.
The evening will feature a public conversation tracing the emergence of Black Food Futurism as both theory and practice. Together, these offerings invite audiences to consider how food can function simultaneously as an archive, altar, and dream mapping tool capable of carrying memory across timelines while seeding new worlds.

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Nia Lee is an award winning conceptual culinary artist and facilitator. Her work invites participants into collective acts of
wonder, memory, and reimagining, often using food as a portal for spiritual and philosophical inquiry. Their work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, Thrillist, Vogue, and more. Nia also appeared on Netflix’s James Beard–nominated docuseries High on the Hog and the James Beard Award–winning podcast Black Kitchen Series.

This workshop is part of the programming for our current show, Into The Plursiverse.

This programming is made possible with generous support from the Accelerate Resilience Los Angeles (ARLA) Arts Fund.