What IS
Come Again?
Come Again is an experiential philosophy project born from two ideas:
1. Growing, cooking, and eating food is sacred human activity.
2. A radical Hospitality is necessary to combat hostile, white supremacist, capitalism.
A radical Hospitality centers embodied care, reciprocity, forgiveness, open perception, and play.
In 2016 we began hosting salons, reimagined from their 18th century predecessors to be newly accessible, self-reflexive, sensual, and including a meal thoughtfully sourced and prepared. Food is long, slow, and fleeting-
“Once we lose touch with the spendthrift aspect of nature’s provisions epitomized in the raising of a crop, we are in danger of losing touch with life itself. When Providence supplies the means, the preparation and sharing of food takes on a sacred aspect,” -Patience Gray.
The salons included elements of intentional engagement, poetry, music, and spaces built to earnestly entreat our senses. “I know what I am looking for: not happiness, or delight, or joy, or sensuality, but the place where I would like to experience them, the place where I can linger in one of those felicitous encounters. This is not as absurd as it sounds.” -Henri Lefebvre.
Come Again exists as an interstice - in the infinite ephemerality of arrival and departure (Bhabha, Homi K.). In-between each other is communal space, and perhaps communion. Eating together explores the permeability of our psychic and physical form, and elucidates the transformation that can occur at the borders of what we know. “The poets record this struggle from within a consciousness- perhaps new in the world- of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.” -Anne Carson
How do we interrupt the notions that keep us fixed? How can we interrupt continually? What does it mean to be hospitable to one another? What is the potential of co-inscribing spaces of joy? What is the power in attending to the needs of the body? How do we reconcile the Otherness of ourselves? What might happen when we eat together?
Imagining is an act of extension. We perform the world we want to live in through acts of care, reciprocity, beauty, friendship, and joy; through being hospitable to ourselves and other.
