Food Roots Festival: Magazine Presentation of Melon and Curator/Editor Talk by Yen-Ting Kuan
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13.05.2026
Food Roots Festival
Artist: Yen-Ting Kuan
Join us for the magazine presentation of Melon, initiated by curator and writer Yen-Ting Kuan and Limestone Books, that will take place this Wednesday, May 13!
Yen-Ting Kuan will present Melon, a publication initiated by her and Limestone in Maastricht. This publication aims to critically examine the history and evolution of food, while attempting to explore the relevance and urgency of current political, technological and ecological issues from a non-Western perspective. For example, how Asian dishes traveled to different countries through colonization and global trade, or how our ways of eating have been broadened or limited by larger political and historical factors.
Yen-Ting Kuan is a curator, writer, and translator whose practice explores methods of decolonizing (contemporary) art history and politicalizing our relationship to the natural world through alternative perspectives, including colonial trajectories of plants and culinary culture, as well as her Asian cultural roots.