EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP

EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP OPENING 4th August mpire Shops were first developed in 1920s London to teach the British how to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories.

Though none of the stores ever opened, they were meant to make sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica available and familiar in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. A public installation by London-based duo Cooking Sections, Th

e Empire Remains Shop hosts a critical programme of discussions, performances, dinners, installations and screenings. The storefront and upper floor of 91–93 Baker Street features a range of new commissions and existing works that employ food as a tool to assemble new sites and geographies, while exploring origins, destinations and exchanges across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Visitors to The Empire Remains Shop can taste, buy, or take part in the ongoing programme that will change over the project’s lifespan. The Empire Remains Shop traces the contemporary history of imperial fruit, sugar, rum, cocoa, spices, and condiments, as well as the economies and aesthetics that emerged from them. It attests the ways in which global food networks have evolved up until today. Through its wide range of contributors, The Empire Remains Shop is a platform to investigate and explore the invention of the ‘exotic’ and the ‘tropical’, shrimp sandwiches, conflict geologies, the financialisation of ecosystems, ‘unnatural’ behaviours, the ecological perception of ‘invasive’ and ‘native’ species, ‘culturally neutral’ food aid, the banana that colonised the world, retiring to former colonies, the construction of the offshore and Special Economic Zones, and much, much more. The Empire Remains is a long-term research project that began in 2013 to explore the infrastructure and cultural imaginaries established within the British Empire to promote gastronomic and agricultural exchange between home and overseas at the beginning of the 20th century. It takes as a starting the Empire Marketing Board — a British governmental agency that promoted colonial trade in the 1920–30s through fine art, film and graphic propaganda.

13/04/2018

Join us tonight 7pm at for the launch of The Empire Remains Shop book published by . Joining us will be and .

Book is coming out!!!! 💥💥💥The Empire Remains Shop is ready for preorders. Get your copy with 30% off at www.cup.columbia...
11/01/2018

Book is coming out!!!! 💥💥💥The Empire Remains Shop is ready for preorders. Get your copy with 30% off at www.cup.columbia.edu using promotion code CBACJAN30 until end of January 📚link in bio 📚 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚with foreword by Elizabeth A. Povinelli and contributions from Elisabetta Brighi, Filipa César, Revital Cohen & Tuur van B***n, Jesse Connuck, Daniel Conway, Annalee Davis, Forager Collective, FRAUD, Ros Gray, Raphaël Grisey, Nitasha Kaul, Harry Keene, Laleh Khalili, Richie Maitland, Asunción Molinos, Shela Sheikh, Shahmen Suku/Radha La Bia, Bouba Touré, and Nicole Wolf. Design by An Endless Supply. Legal advice by Guest Work Agency 📚 @ EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP

Today 1pm, presenting The Empire Remains Shop at Columbia GSAPP in conversation with and Jesse Connuck. Join us!
14/04/2017

Today 1pm, presenting The Empire Remains Shop at Columbia GSAPP in conversation with and Jesse Connuck. Join us!

Earlier this month another Climavore performative dinner took place at The Empire Remains Shop. Amy Sherlock shares her ...
25/11/2016

Earlier this month another Climavore performative dinner took place at The Empire Remains Shop. Amy Sherlock shares her thoughts:
https://frieze.com/article/food-thought-1

This week’s Culture Digest focuses on performative meals. First: the Climavore dinners series from Cooking Sections

The sound of drowning >>> maritime insurance
05/11/2016

The sound of drowning >>> maritime insurance

05/11/2016

Black Atlantis by Ayesha Hameed with Tom Hirst, the last performance at The Empire Remains Shop on 91-93 Baker Street tonight. To be continued...

05/11/2016

A business that has to go bust in order to succeed: The Forest Does Not Employ Me Any More....Last chance to get a stool made out of invasive Lantana Camara...we have only some left...£29/each...you know where to find us

05/11/2016

is a live audio-visual essay by Ayesha Hameed with Tom Hirst that looks at possible afterlives of the Black Atlantic: in migration at sea today, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and sound systems, and in outer space. 7:00pm 🌍🌊

Here we are, excited and sad, LAST DAY of The Empire Remains Shop. 3 months have gone by, and we are incredibly grateful...
05/11/2016

Here we are, excited and sad, LAST DAY of The Empire Remains Shop. 3 months have gone by, and we are incredibly grateful to all of you who made it happen. Last chance to visit the space...we celebrate tonight... join us for Black Atlantis at 7pm and then we empty the barrel!

04/11/2016

Histories of death within the freedom of free trade zones...Dégustation Amère kicks off

04/11/2016

Has commercial extinction enabled the survival of species? Tonight FRAUD will take us to the for a performative lecture on the role of off-shored shrimp-processing. We will taste and peel the deregulated relations between the Thames estuary brown shrimps and the Free Trade Zone of Tangier. Book online gconditions

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Thursday 12pm - 6pm
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