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LA-based arts org that explores the intersection of art, food, and ecologies.
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Bajo la Huerta tomorrow Saturday 11/7 at 7:30pm & Sunday 11/8 at 2:30pm at @2220arts commission by @activeculturesla
I’ve been a little bit of a hermit these past few months working on this intense research project on the commodification of the avocado. The research is still not done but I’m excited to present this iteration as a performance lecture.
Ticket links in my bio!
06 Nov 2026
“Avocados have been marketed to us using many of the same tactics we’ve seen with other consumer products. But behind the image of the healthy, feel-good superfood is a much more complicated story.” — Eva Aguila.
Join us this weekend at @2220arts for Bajo la Huerta, where interdisciplinary artist Eva Aguila uses sound, image, and video to trace the avocado from it’s prehistoric roots to it’s present life as a global commodity.
Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8, 2026.
Tickets at the link in bio!
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Bajo la Huerta is a commission of Active Cultures. Major support provided by the Angeles Art Fund and Teiger Foundation.
05 Nov 2026
Ahuacatl. Aguacate. The alligator pear. How did the avocado become the fruit we know today?
Interdisciplinary artist Eva Aguila traces the hidden costs of the avocado trade, and asks us who profits and who pays for the price for the common “superfood” in her upcoming performance lecture Bajo la Huerta.
This weekend at @2220arts
Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8, 2026.
Tickets at the link in bio!
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Bajo la Huerta is a commission of Active Cultures. Major support provided by the Angeles Art Fund and Teiger Foundation.
04 Nov 2026
over the past year i’ve had the pleasure of working closely with the incredible @evaguila on a totally new work! the first time i worked with eva was five years ago for my exhibition SIMMER at @mamalbury in australia, an exhibition ft. local cooks, aus + international artists and my first foray into bringing food and art together! since then, our online relationship turned into an irl one when i relocated to los angeles and began working at @activeculturesla
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i couldn’t wait for my very first studio visit with eva to hear what she was working on and researching (which at the time was the colonisation of wine for her first solo museum exhibition at @vpam_arts ). as our visit was wrapping up, she dropped that she’d also been doing a deep dive into the history of the avocado, and with that began a year-long obsession with this fruit delving through historical agricultural archives, collecting painfully comical advertising campaigns online, and reading books and articles aplenty on this hot commodity: green gold.
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eva aguila’s newly commissioned work is an incredible culmination of love for research and history, her epic interdisciplinary video, sound and installation practice, woven together with a little humour, a little criticality, and some pretty real facts.
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‘bajo la huerta’ will be presented this weekend at @2220arts tracing the avocado’s history of propagation, commodification, and branding from the 1700s to today, the performance lecture asks: what does it mean to have a “superfood” available year-round at the grocery store, and what does that convenience actually cost the people and land it comes from?
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eva aguila: bajo la huerta
at 2220 arts + archives
on saturday, november 7 at 7:30pm
and sunday, november 8 at 2:30pm
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for tickets and more info, pls visit active cultures’ website ~~~ 🥑
03 Nov 2026
What does it mean to have a “superfood” available year-round at the grocery store, and what does that convenience cost the people and land from which it comes?
Bajo la Huerta (Beneath the Orchard), a newly commissioned performance lecture by artist Eva Aguila, traces the hidden costs of the avocado trade. Moving between a multi-layered regional story and its global consequences, Aguila examines how far removed we’ve become from the origins of our food, holding the tension between extraction and erasure on one hand, and land, memory, and belonging on the other.
The artist’s personal research includes this collection of images, which looks back at the avocado’s longer history, from a Florida postcard depicting the “alligator pear,” to Mesoamerican depictions, to the giant ground sloths said to have spread its seeds.
Saturday, November 7: doors 7 PM, program 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 8: doors 2 PM, program 2:30 PM
at 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
Tickets at the link in bio! 🥑
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Bajo la Huerta is a commission of Active Cultures. Major support provided by the Angeles Art Fund and Teiger Foundation.
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Slide 6: Figure 4 from “Avocado Cultivation in Michoacan and Archaeological Heritage: Application of LiDAR in Tingambato, Mexico” by Dr. José Luis Punzo Díaz.
29 Oct 2026
We are hiring a Programs Manager to join our team in January 2027!
The Programs Manager is a new hybrid role based in Los Angeles. Working closely with our Executive Director, Curator, and Director of Communications and Operations, the Programs Manager leads the production and logistics of our artistic program as well as member and special events, from run of show and set-up to vendor coordination, artist travel, and volunteer management. The role requires on-site presence for programs, including some evenings and weekends.
Applications are due November 9. Full job description, including compensation and benefits, and link to apply in our bio.
Please share widely with those who may be interested!
15 Oct 2026
Active Cultures presents Bajo la Huerta (Beneath the Orchard), a newly commissioned performance lecture by Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Eva Aguila that traces the hidden costs of the avocado trade, asking what it means to eat an avocado from Mexico.
Led by personal research conducted by Aguila in her family’s home state of Michoacán, the work blends video, sound, and image to follow the fruit from its prehistoric dispersal by giant ground sloths, through the USDA agricultural explorers who carried it north, to the archaeological site of Tingambato in the heart of Michoacán’s avocado belt, where roughly 90 hectares of orchards now cover ancient ruins. From there it traces the accidental propagation of the Hass cultivar by a Southern California mailman into its present life as a global commodity. Drawing on interviews with scientists and researchers across the region, Aguila returns to Michoacán, where US demand for the crop has led to compounded harms across natural ecosystems and community life.
Saturday, November 7: doors 7 PM, program 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 8: doors 2 PM, program 2:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
Tickets at the link in bio! 🥑
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Bajo la Huerta is a commission of Active Cultures. Major support provided by the Angeles Art Fund and Teiger Foundation.
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Images:
Slides 1 and 2: Figure 3, Satellite image and area covered by LiDAR, from “Avocado Cultivation in Michoacan and Archaeological Heritage: Application of LiDAR in Tingambato, Mexico” by Dr. José Luis Punzo Díaz.
Slide 3: Figure 4 from “Avocado Cultivation in Michoacan and Archaeological Heritage: Application of LiDAR in Tingambato, Mexico” by Dr. José Luis Punzo Díaz.
13 Oct 2026
FOOD: A Convening has come and gone, and we’re so grateful for everyone who joined us!
Over two days, artists, cooks, farmers, writers, and organizers gathered to examine food as medium, system, archive, and territory through panels, performances, workshops, and shared meals. We were so thrilled to see people lean into all the conversations, find each other between sessions, and leave with new connections as much as new ideas.
Thank you to Eva Aguila, Heidi Ross, Sita Bhaumik Kuratomi, Adobo-Fish-Sauce, Aaron Tupac, Jack Forinash, Jean Trinh, Martin Draluck, Ginny Hwang, Nadia Barhoum, and mak-warép Ohlone Land Conservancy for sharing your work. Thank you to Cocina Colaboratorio for bringing it all together through the artist project ‘Mesa Migrante,’ and to Nicolas Maldonado and Susana Pineda for a wonderful Living Earth set to close us out.
Thank you to the senses coffee project, Gerardo Gonzalez, and Eden Batki for keeping us caffeinated and fed, and to the Philosophical Research Society and the Feminist Center for Creative Work for hosting us.
More from the convening soon. Sign up for our newsletter at the link in bio to hear what’s next!
Photos by @hrdwrker
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FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons.
09 Oct 2026
Active Cultures is thrilled to announce Bajo la Huerta, a new commission by Eva Aguila, premiering November 7 and 8 at 2220 Arts + Archives. Save the date! 🥑
Eva Aguila is a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on oral histories of the Mexican diaspora, with a particular focus on her ancestral communities in rural Michoacán. Her research-driven work draws on personal archives and the materiality of memory, working across video, sound, and installation. Her upcoming performance lecture uses the avocado as a lens through which to explore colonial extraction and global commodification.
More details are coming next week. Thank you to the Angeles Art Fund for its support of this project and Eva’s research!
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Photo by Amina Cruz. Performance documentation from Redrawing the Rancho by homeLA in partnership with La Puente Valley Historical Society.
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08 Oct 2026
This Friday, September 25 ✨
Starting at 9:30AM senses coffee project will be serving coffee and beverages to begin the day of panels, presentations, workshops, and a shared meal at FOOD: A Convening.
Swipe through for a menu reveal ➝➝➝
We can’t wait to see you there!
Register at the link in bio.
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FOOD: A Convening
September 25, 2026
at the Philosophical Research Society
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Photo by Johny Muench (slide 1); photo by Saon Kashem (slide 3)
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FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons.
22 Sep 2026
Who has the right to land, to food, to knowledge?
For TERRITORY, we look at what it means to reclaim those rights not as a concept, but as ongoing, daily work.
Presentation by Vincent Medina & Louis Trevino (mak-warép Ohlone Land Conservancy.)
FOOD: A Convening
September 25, 2026
at the Philosophical Research Society
Tickets at the link in bio!
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FOOD: A Convening is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, with the generous support of Sarah and Joel McHale, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, Betsy Greenberg and Steve NyBlom, and Joaquín Vargas M. In-kind support is provided by the Kimpton Everly Hotel, RG|MX, and William Grant & Sons.
18 Sep 2026
✨ Call for Volunteers! ✨
We’re looking for (paid!) volunteers for FOOD: A Convening on September 25. No experience required, just a willingness to pitch in!
The day brings together artists, cooks, farmers, writers, and organizers working at the intersection of food, art, and ecologies across two days of performance, presentation, workshop, and shared meals.
Interested? Send a DM, or email us at [email protected]!
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Image: Meech Boakye: Sunstead, June 20, 2026. Hosted in partnership with the Audubon Center at Debs Park. Photo by Yemi Seyi.
15 Sep 2026
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