Transhumant Cookings: Migrant Entrail
Barcelona, Cataluña
Entraña Migrante (Migrants Entrail) is part of Cocinas Transhumantes (Transhumant Cookings), a collective process of creation, care, and political reflection that uses the kitchen as a space for memory, connection, and resistance. Through eight sessions designed as collaborative workshops, the participants—migrant women working in domestic and caregiving roles—explore their culinary and cultural knowledge through artistic, performative, and educational practices.
The starting point: systems of power—migration policies, immigration laws, and discriminatory dynamics—that restrict migrants’ access, participation, and cultural representation. In contrast, cooking 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 cartography, improvisation, writing, sensory exercises, and shared culinary practices, the laboratory seeks to strengthen community ties, recognize participants’ knowledge as legitimate, and generate new 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. Space for mutual rapprochement to get to know each other and start building trust with the members of Saberes y Sabores.
Session 2 ·Thursday 23 April 2026· 11-13h
Migration contexts and regularization | Shared assembly to deepen experiences related to the administrative situation, regularization processes and the labor and social conditions of the participants.
Session 3 · Thursday 11 June 2026 · 11-14h
Convening and formation of the group | Presentation of the project Entraña Migrante to the team of Saberes y Sabores: objectives, methodology and organization of meetings.
Session 4 · Saturday 27 June 2026 · 11-14h
Sensory memory: knowledge that migrates | Activation of body and sensory memory through food. Exploring foods, flavors and textures as a starting point to talk about who we are, where we come from and what relationship we have with food.
Session 5 · Saturday 4 July 2026 · 11-14h
Body in relation: space and care | Body work from dance and theater. Collective mapping at the table on domestic work, care and bodily experiences crossed by 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 driving the lab?
Local Agent: The Creature
Barcelona-based transfeminist organization that promotes the autonomy of women and dissent through resistance economy tools. Reactivated in 2022, it works to make bodies and experiences excluded from the labor market visible. Among his projects: Urdimbre, the Laboratory of Mutant Economies and migration and labor counseling.
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.
