The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists and artist collectives interrogating the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution, and consumption. As an important document of new research and thinking around the subject, this book, published with Delfina Foundation, contains reflections on food by prominent artists, anthropologists, and activists, amongst others. Interviews with chefs, policy makers, and agronomists critically assess and illuminate the ways the arts confront food-related issues, ranging from the infrastructure of global and local food systems, its impact on social organization, alternatives and sustainability, climate and ecology, health and policy, science and biodiversity, and identity and community.

In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home, exploring the plural nature of the Mediterraneans—geographical, historical, philosophical, and personal. This publication, emerging from TBA21–Academy’s curatorial fellowship program The Current (2021–23), extends that dialogue to collect interdisciplinary reflections through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism. The book addresses climate change impacts specific to Mediterranean shores, occurring 20 percent faster than elsewhere globally, and examines how « Mediterraneanization » is becoming an expansive global phenomenon. It records fragments of two years of research conducted through conversations, lectures, walks, trips, live performances, and podcasts, emphasizing the necessity of thinking with—not merely about—the Mediterraneans as plural interconnected cultures and bodies of water undergoing rapid transformation.