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Cooking Sunshine© Cooking Sunshine

Cooking Sunshine

As a collective Nasr & Haggag will build a Solar cooking device as an art installation using materials from the environment around them & document their research of the traditional techniques of solar cooking and the South African recipes. They will prepare traditional dishes not just from South Africa but from Egypt and Tunisia as well, and continue working on the second version of their artist research cookbook that combines the different recipes from northern and southern Africa; which they will present as part of it at the end of their stay.

In an attempt to revive traditional recipes and bring attention to crops and other local foods available in both north and South African countries, as opposed to importing crops throughout the year, they will use local crops and traditional recipes to prepare the food. They will supplement this with some dried crops that they will bring with them.; starting with El-Eish El-Shamsi (loosely translated as sun bread), a bread that is still baked and widely consumed in upper Egypt and moving on to other recipes that contain meat, veggies and drinks.
 
Finally they aim to host a series of dinner and lunch invites and workshops for the communities around the areas they will be staying in for the duration of the LAPA residency. To encourage the communities to use alternative cooking mechanisms as sustainable methods for preparing their communal meals, they will donate the installation to the host organisations for the locals to use in the future.

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Mina Nasr © Mina Nasr

Bio
 Mina Nasr

Nasr has completed his Bachelor of Applied Arts From Helwan University, Egypt and did his Fulbright research grant in Art and Social Justice at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University, D.C., USA. In previous work, Nasr focused on contemporary issues of climate change caused by building hydropower dams and the effect of man-made obstacles on the environment. He discussed the current African dispute over the Nile among Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in the form of an art book in Egypt under the title ‘The Book of Gates'.

Haggag and Nasr’s collective practice spans installation, painting, drawing, interactive installation, social practices, interventions and creative writing. Their project has received support so far from different prestigious institutions including Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF), Tunisia; Fulbright Alumni Community Action Grant, USA; Canada Council for the Arts Canada; Roberto Cimetia mobility Fund. In addition to recognition from The Nile Journeys organisation and Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS).

Lamis Haggag © Lamis Haggag

Bio
 Lamis Haggag

Haggag has received an MFA from the University of Calgary, Canada and a BFA from Helwan University in Egypt. Since spring 2020, Haggag has been working on different iterations to a story that follows jasmines which travelled with the dead on the sun barge and got lost in the grey Canadian landscape, only to realise that they changed into Monotropa Unifloras: A fragile, translucent, chlorophyll-less, parasitic plant, Native to Ontario, Canada.

Haggag and Nasr’s collective practice spans installation, painting, drawing, interactive installation, social practices, interventions and creative writing. Their project has received support so far from different prestigious institutions including Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF), Tunisia; Fulbright Alumni Community Action Grant, USA; Canada Council for the Arts Canada; Roberto Cimetia mobility Fund. In addition to recognition from The Nile Journeys organisation and Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS).

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