Our Bodies are Made of Earth

Joroches is a soup made of ingredients from the cultivation known as Milpa. It is a special recipe from Sinanche, Yucatan, a Mayan community that makes this traditional soup to celebrate life and birth by re-membering the belly button, as a way to strengthen the weaving of the umbilical cord with family, community, milpa and mother Earth.

With this recipe, we invite you to rethink our relations with Earth. How can we re-member our bodies as part of a living territory, as living Earth?

* This recipe is shared with us by the SUUMIL MÓOKT’AAN collective in Sinanche, Yucatan, Mexico who are part of a generation returning to the soil and finding back the Mayan ancestral ways of living.

Bio

Weaving Realities Collective is an artist collective that organizes public performances and workshops by practicing sentipensar—thinking through feeling with the territory, and by weaving with pluriversal knowledges to change our position from the “I” to the “we” together with a living Earth.

Our work intends to interweave different alternative ways of relating to the world other than exploitation, appropriation or consumption, by using art as a platform. Our relation to mother Earth is reflected profoundly in our relation with food. We use the kitchen as a space to question and rethink our relation with the entire food production chain, from the land, the producers to our dinner table. Cooking then becomes a form of resistance in revival of ancestral knowledges, while being conscious about our own relations to the life of others. The collective consists of Yuchen Li and Aldo Esparza Ramos, who are based in Amsterdam.