Food Material: Julio César Morales with Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi

For the third installment of this series, artist and curator Julio César Morales connected with curator Rita Gonzalez and writer Joseph Mosconi to discuss Julio’s artistic practice and current projects. Julio often considers food as both material and inspiration in his work and has collaborated with both Rita and Joseph on past projects. Through his food-based public performances and by what he calls “eating history,” Julio offers meals as inquiries into the complicated histories of land, politics, and culture. Julio, Rita, and Joseph are longtime friends and colleagues, and this conversation brings them together in the midst of Covid and a changing landscape for artistic production to talk about what inspires Julio’s projects, eating as practice, and how sound and poetry shape a meal.