'slow cook' started as an experiment to determine how two curators and

makers can work together in a way that resists speed and pressures to

produce a static, final form. We are joined by our shared

interest in archives as sites for communal gathering and belief in the

importance of relationship building in creating meaningful experiences with

art.

Our most recent separate projects explored New York City residents’

relationship to the New York Estuary and the politics of friendship in

collaborative art practices. While we put on exhibitions in two different

spaces (Pfizer building and CP Project Space), one manifestation of our

collaborative work resulted in a program “Walking with the estuary”, a

facilitated walk including a short poetry reading by each of us as a

speculative exercise to determine whether our respective exhibitions could

become friends. 

We cook slowly, and slowly cook in these ways to

practice ways of being together.