Broth * Ritual, residue, and the memory of matter

Initiated in 2020 as part of the Unstable Ritual Series, Broth by Anto Lloveras functions as a performative epistemology—a gesture so simple it becomes radical: water, salt, heat, presence; in contrast to the velocity and extractivism of contemporary culture, Broth enacts a ritual of suspended time, where meaning is not performed but infused, not declared but shared through atmosphere; the practice draws from cooking as embodied thinking, where each iteration—however minor in its variations of ingredients, contexts, and participants—becomes a site of affective slowness, a diffused social membrane that resists both spectacle and documentation; rather than framing food as metaphor or installation, Lloveras proposes a post-linguistic intimacy, where care circulates without ownership, and transformation is gentle, non-instrumental; what floats in the pot—skins, bones, vegetal residue—are not ingredients but fragments of memory, leftovers made sacred through repetition and shared presence; aligned with earlier Socioplastics works such as MEAT, Blue Bags, and Taxidermy, Broth marks a turn inward, toward digestion as theory, warmth as infrastructure, and nourishment as silent knowledge; nothing here is for sale, and nothing remains—except perhaps the trace of warmth, the echo of togetherness, and the idea that art, too, can be shared without display, learned without language, and felt without form; Broth is not an event but an ongoing method, a way of being together through flavour, silence, and soft temporal insistence.