Gastronomy Guild 2025-2026

From the Gastronomy Guild, we focus our attention on the concept of circulation. If in previous editions we explored the somatic and spiritual dimension, this year we analyse the modern market city as a space of controlled circulation.

Our main lines of research revolve around the tension between state control of flows and urban social bonds:

• The market-city and flow control 
• Social bonds and mobility 

Through this lens, we want to question how state powers intervene to control disorder and how, from gastronomy and encounter, we can generate alternative uses of public space.

Antonio Monroy Salas and Mohammad Alsharqawi

Biographies:

Antonio Monroy (Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist and boxer. His practice links physical confrontation with the research of territorial conflicts between the countryside and the city, replacing traditional visions of landscape with spaces of debate and political friction.

Mohammad Alsharqawi Sharqawi is an artist, researcher and cook who tensions the limits of material culture, social gastronomy and community art. His practice overflows traditional academic frameworks through processes of expanded artistic research, using collective cooking and culinary matter as methodological weapons and aesthetic artefacts to activate subaltern memories and radical forms of hospitality. Through laboratories of resistance such as Masa en Masa and Kafeta, the act of cooking becomes political performance and direct action that critically intervenes in the extractivist logics of the urban territory. By politicising the everyday and situating the practice within the devices of mediation and living research of the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, the table is transformed into a space of community agitation. Here, cooking operates rigorously as a counterspace of dissidence and self-management, and food becomes an artefact of pure political agency: a tool to collectivise conflict, liberate the kidnapped word and dispute, from the ground up, the sovereignty of the contemporary social fabric.