{ ::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS * Sovereign systems for unstable times: Fish Dish Ritual * Metabolic Sovereignty

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Fish Dish Ritual * Metabolic Sovereignty


Conceived by Anto Lloveras and first activated in Madrid in March 2016 within the ARTNATIONS satellite of the LAPIEZA Relational Art Series, Fish Dish Ritual (LAPIEZA 1040) constitutes a paradigmatic enactment of Socioplastics as lived protocol. Structured through a precise yet quotidian sequence—procure, prepare, cook, eat, document, share—the ritual displaces sculpture from objecthood to metabolic process, asserting nourishment as civic infrastructure. Fresh marine matter—berberechos, dill, asparagus—functions not as culinary ornament but as ritualised substrate, embedded within Mediterranean lifeworlds and selected for its cultural resonance. Here, decay is neither spectacle nor abjection; it is interiorised through digestion, rendering the body an epistemic crucible in which art is fully metabolised, leaving no residue beyond affective and cognitive trace. This no-leftovers ethic, continuous with the Supernatural Series and counterposed to the preservational logic of the MEAT Series, advances a politics of care predicated on repetition and fragility. A dedicated soundtrack, disseminated via digital platforms, sutures the intimate kitchen to the transnational mesh of ARTNATIONS (2016–2018), extending the act beyond locality without forfeiting situated knowledge. As a specific case synthesis, the Madrid activation exemplifies how modest domestic gestures generate sovereign micro-infrastructures: collaborators gather, consumption becomes dialogue, and documentation circulates as relational extension rather than commodified artefact. Ultimately, Fish Dish Ritual demonstrates that sovereign systems endure through ordinary acts of nourishment, affirming cooking as a durational, self-renewing sculpture in which community, memory, and sustenance converge as one indivisible commons.



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