Broth, initiated in 2020 as part of the Unstable Ritual Series, is an ongoing performative gesture where cooking becomes a method of epistemology, affection, and slow knowledge. In a time saturated by speed and spectacle, Broth proposes a return to simmering: to suspended time, shared silence, and subtle transformation. The act is simple—water, salt, heat, presence—but the implications are vast. Each iteration unfolds with slight variations in ingredients, context, and participants. The ritual is never theatrical, yet always public: a social membrane, soft and warm, through which meaning diffuses. The broth holds no center—it is always dissolving, always becoming. Floating inside: discarded skins, bones, vegetal memory. The process refuses spectacle and embraces unrecorded nourishment. As part of the Socioplastics archive, Broth connects with earlier Lloveras works—MEAT, Taxidermy, Blue Bags—but reorients them inward, toward slowness, digestion, and post-linguistic intimacy. It is an art of care without claim, where nothing is sold, and everything is shared. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) - broth, ritual cooking, socioplastics, edible installation, memory of matter, unstable ritual, post-spectacle performance.
