The inaugural issue of “Oyster Bisque” is inspired by the women who worked or studied at the Pratt Institute School of Household Science & Arts in the early 20th century. Poems constructed with found phrases from the Pratt Archives are interspersed with personal anecdotes and laid upon re-photographed images from the Home Economics program. The zine concludes with a recipe for oyster bisque, which is meant to symbolize familial belonging and personal pleasure. The project as a whole examines how the archival imagination, when combined with the gestures of historically-informed cooking, can illuminate emotional experiences that otherwise resist traditional preservation.
Read the zine here.
Slides can be viewed here.
Alyse (she/hers) is an artist, archivist, data visualist, memory mapper, and food scholar. Her academic research examines embodied, emotional, and cultural experiences of data and archival information, particularly through the acts of cooking and eating. She stands by the idea that food is political and seeks to use critical archival storytelling to uncover personal and community histories through food. This May, she will earn an MSLIS from Pratt Institute with an Advanced Certificate in Spatial Analysis and Design.
Latest posts by Alyse Delaney (see all)
- “Oyster Bisque”: A zine about food and archives - April 30, 2024
- Archives and Art-making class exhibition - April 30, 2024
- Cooking as Conversation: Embracing Embodied Knowledge and Oral History in Culinary Information Systems - May 1, 2023