Transhumant Cookery: Migrant Entrail
Barcelona, Cataluña
Entraña Migrante (Migrant Entrail) forms of Cocinas Transhumantes (Transhumant Cookings), a collective process involving creation, care, and political reflection, which uses the kitchen as a space for memory, connection, and resistance. During eight collaborative workshop sessions, participants — migrant women employed in domestic and caregiving roles—explore their culinary and cultural knowledge through artistic, performative, and educational practices.
The starting point is the systems of power that restrict migrants' access, participation, and cultural representation, and cultural representation: migration policies, immigration laws and discriminatory dinamics. By contrast, cooking is presented as a political practice: a space where identity, affection, sustainability, and rights intersect.
The methodology combines cooking, the body, conversation, and artistic experimentation to create a safe and flexible space. Through activities such as cartography, improvisation, writing, sensory exercises, and shared culinary practices, the laboratory aims to foster community bonds, recognize participants’ knowledge as legitimate, and generate fresh narratives about the migrant experience.
Programme of meetings
at Centre de Cultura Dones Francesca Bonnemaison
Session 1· Thursday 9 April 2026 · 11-13h
First meeting | First attendance of Las Jamaiconas to the assembly of Sindillar/Sindihogar. A space for mutual rapprochement, to get to know the members of Saberes y Sabores and start building trust.
Session 2 ·Thursday 23 April 2026· 11-13h
Migration contexts and regularisation | A shared assembly to deepen participants' experiences related to their administrative situation, regularisation processes, and labor and social conditions.
Session 3 · Thursday 11 June 2026 · 11-14h
Convening and formation of the group | Presentation of the Entraña Migrante (Migrant Entrail) project to the Saberes y Sabores team: objectives, methodology and organisation of meetings.
Session 4 · Saturday 27 June 2026 · 11-14h
Sensory memory: knowledge that migrates | Activation of the body and sensory memory through food. We explore foods, flavours and textures as a starting point for talking about who we are, where we come from and our relationship with food.
Session 5 · Saturday 4 July 2026 · 11-14h
The body in relation: space and care | Bodywork from dance and theatre. A collective mapping exercise at the table on domestic work, care and bodily experiences intersecting with migration and precariousness.
Session 6 · Saturday 18 July 2026 · 11-14h
Edible cartography | Revisited to the previous cartography. Collective creation - recipe, poem or exquisite corpse - that condenses the shared stories on the table. Gastronomic and artistic experimentation.
Session 7 · Saturday of September (to be confirmed) To be confirmed
Menu: the Migrant Entrail | Cooking collectively from the recipes and materials that emerged in previous sessions. The kitchen as a place of return and updating of what has been lived.
Who’s running the lab?
Local Agent: The Creature
Barcelona-based transfeminist organisation that promotes the women's autonomy and dissent through resistance economy tools. Reactivated in 2022, it aims raise awarness of the issues faced by those excluded from the labour market. Its projects include: Urdimbre, the Laboratory of Mutant Economies and migration and labour counselling.
Artist: Las Jamaiconas
Art, cooking and activism project integrated by Lina Ruiz (Bogotá), Columba Zavala (Mexico City) and Mariana Alva (Lima). Her work starts from the eco-social crisis and reflects on migration, territory and anti-racist struggles, from performance, installation, audiovisual and educational mediation. In the kitchen they see a space where artistic languages, non-hegemonic knowledge and collective imaginaries converge.
With: Sindillar/Sindihogar Saberes y Sabores
The first independent trade union of domestic and care workers in Spain, founded in Barcelona in 2011. Feminist and anti-racist, it is made up of migrant women who defend their labor rights and fight against precariousness. Saberes y Sabores is their social catering, active since 2016: a self-management project where migrant women claim their gastronomic traditions as a political practice of resistance and autonomy.
This laboratory is part of Cocinas Transhumantes, a project curated by hablarenarte in 2026.
