CONSUMPTION: artistic capital and culinary innovation to shift economic power

CONSUMPTION explores the role of artistic capital in economic power dynamics within blighted urban neighborhoods undergoing development and gentrification. The presenters will introduce a model that couples economical exchange with artistic engagement to shift the socio-economic dynamics between the powerful and powerless within the context of the project CONSUMPTION, and its subproject, Kitchen of Corrections, a pop-up restaurant that seeks to correct the perceptions of the incarcerated, raise awareness of the harsh realities of prison, and build a movement through food and storytelling.