Tranhuman Cookings: Acous-coustic Sessions
Blanca, Valle del Ricote, Murcia
This laboratory is part of Cocinas Transhumantes, a project by hablarenarte · 2026
What is this lab like?
Murcian and Moroccan cuisine share much more than meets the eye: ingredients, cooking methods, place names, and hydraulic systems that are rooted in a shared Andalusian past. The bajocas, the beans, the michirones, the apricots share not only the Arabic etymology but also the ways of preparing them.
From this common heritage, Acous-coustic Sessions proposes a series of meetings where food, orality and music intertwine to weave community between the different populations of Blanca, municipality located in the Region of Murcia. The proposal works from spaces with modular systems that host meetings where kitchen processes are put in relation to sound elements, building shared spaces through workshops on agroecology, the construction of a wood oven and tablecloths made collaboratively.
The laboratory collects a recipe book shared among the communities of Blanca, made with locally produced foods, and an oral glossary of terms linked to recipes, place names and knowledge of the orchard. In addition, he explores techniques associated with cultivation: natural dyes with pomegranate, onion or lemon, and the use of henna as drawing material.
Programme of meetings
Session · 18 and 25 April 6 June · Age of Oxox (White-Eyes)
Nat Llorente (Ecologists in Action) · Substrates
Workshop on agroecology and nutrition in the Oxox Era, a orchard between Blanca and Ojos, an BIC space that has maintained its irrigation structure without great variations for a millennium, inheriting systems from the Amazigh society. The workshop connects the historical Andalusian legacy with the cultural background of the participating Moroccan community.
Session · 26 and 27 June
The House of Engarces, Blanca
La Cuarta Piel · From Floor to Floor
Exercise of material experimentation from the collection and study of mud from the Segura river. The sediments, compacted and dried until fragmented, form a stratigraphy that relates territories linked by runoff. The project culminates with the construction of a wood oven inside La Casa de los Engarces, a type of oven closely linked to the history of the southern peninsula orchard since the Andalusian period.
Acous-coustic Two plots
The core of the laboratory is structured into two blocks or plots. Each consists of three work sessions - preparation of tablecloths with drawings and interventions, shared kitchen and sound work and oral history - and a public presentation.
First plot Al' Akhawat: the Hispanomarroqui through food
Working sessions · 30 June 1 and 2 July · In Blanca
Session Public Presentation · 3 July · In Blanca
Second plot AsoKultura: invent a monument for an agrarian environment
Working sessions · Thursday 9 and 16 July · In Blanca
Session Public presentation · 24 July · In Blanca
Who’s driving the lab?
Local agent: La Casa de los EngarcesLa Casa de los Engarces is an initiative that combines textile practice, audiovisual production and agroecology in Blanca. Its name pays homage to Ibn Arabi and his work The Engarces of Wisdom, taking the idea of engarce as a metaphor for the interconnection between saberes and communities. They work with the orchard as a metaphor and as a medium, documenting agricultural practices, connecting with the textile tradition of the Esparto and using audiovisual to produce shared stories about the local landscape.
Artists: Zineb Achoubie and Lorenzo Sandoval
Zineb Achoubie (Casablanca) is a visual artist and weaver trained in Fine Arts and at the Royal Academy of Traditional Arts of Morocco. Since 2018 he has been researching Amazigh culture in collaboration with cooperatives and Atlas weavers, reflecting on the textile as a writing system and place of social interconnectedness. He has exhibited at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), IVAM (Valencia), Bienal de Bamako, Bienal de Dakar and Villa Romana (Florence).
Lorenzo Sandoval (Madrid, 1980) works as an artist, filmmaker and curator. Generation Award and V Scholarship DKV-Álvarez Margaride. Nominated for the Berlin Art Prize 2018. He has represented Finland at the Venice Biennale 2019 with the Miracle Workers Collective. He has exhibited at IVAM, Centro Párraga, SAVVY and at the Dak'art 2018 Biennale. Together they investigate the relationships between acoustics, household and circular economy.
