Communal Dinner with Red Flower Collective 
Featuring Tsohil Bhatia, Jenna Hamed, and Erin Montanez 

Consisting of art historian and researcher Erin Montanez; artist & art worker Jenna Hamed; and artist-homemaker Tsohil Bhatia, Red Flower Collective is a food research and eating collective based in New York City that functions as a way to think about a cooking practice as an art practice. RFC continuously undertakes an informal course of research into the interpersonal/intergenerational passage of food knowledge, where friends and chosen family are conduits for the exchange of different culinary traditions. 

During the meal Red Flower Collective presented a menu that distilled research findings and contemplations into a lineup of dishes that is both ordinary and otherwise. As the meal was be held in the VCAM Lounge in Haverford’s Campus, its stages of preparation, the chaos of this moment, will be on full view, defying usual boundaries between preparatory and service spaces. Guests interacted with the meal as both a viewer that discerns and a vessel that receives.

The evening was accompanied with readings from students, members of the collective, and anybody else that wished to speak.