This Dash Café took place within Food of War’s Clouded Lands exhibition at Rich Mix, a show of photography, installation, painting, gastro-performance, sculpture and filming that explored the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, precisely 31 years on.
As part of our Clouded Lands Cafe, we sampled the gastro-performance and discussed the work and wider issues with several of the participating artists from Food of War, including Zinaida Lihacheva, Hernan Barros and Omar Castaneda inspired by Noble prize winner Svetlana Alexeivich's Chernobyl Prayer, plus BBC journalist Lucy Ash and Peter Conradi author of the very newly published Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War. Additionally, we had hauntingly beautiful live music from Ukrainian songstress Iryna Muha.
