What if the food you love doesn’t exist in 2050?
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, in partnership with The Core at Corby Cube, proudly presented What’s Eating Our Reality in January 2026, a powerful new immersive performance by artist Maya Chowdhry, with collaborator and chef Alison Clare, inviting audiences to experience the future of food in a world shaped by ecological breakdown.
Set as a four-course meal in an imagined future, What’s Eating Our Reality gently immerses participants in a sensorial exploration of what we might grow, cook, and eat as the climate crisis accelerates. Through storytelling, projection mapping, and sound, the work asks a pressing and personal question: What if the food you love doesn’t exist in 2050?
Drawing on interviews with local growers, community members and young people in Northamptonshire What’s Eating Our Reality weaves real experiences into a speculative future. How are we going to grow our food in 2050? What if our favourite food became extinct during our lifetime? What can we do to prevent that from happening? Answers to questions such as these will be posed by Northamptonshire residents, transforming the dinner table into a site of reflection, imagination and possibility.
Maya Chowdhry is an interdisciplinary artist, creating immersive and democratic experiences for audiences and participants, leaning into her past work in live art, audiowalks and radio. Her practice interrogates themes such as , food sovereignty, world water scarcity and climate justice. Her work has been exhibited in public gardens, canals, theatres, galleries and on television. Her writing has been published, staged and broadcast widely including the National Theatre and BBC Radio 4.
Alison Clare is an artist, writer and Head Chef at Brighton’s Cafe Rust, described as one of the city’s culinary hidden gems. Her practice explores the intersection of food, art, and life, and how collaborative and circular processes can be used in creative work. Her experimental ceramics practice, Clare Tableware, uses natural, sustainable materials alongside waste from local kitchens such as shells, bones and ash, to create functional tableware for a home or professional space.
What’s Eating Our Reality was funded by Northants Community Foundation’s Northamptonshire Creative Climate Action Fund and 100Green, the UK’s only 100% Green Gas and Electricity Supplier. Supported by The Core at Corby Cube as part of the venue’s 15th birthday celebrations. The performance was originally commissioned by Compass Festival and hÅb/Divergency as ‘Peas on Earth’ in 2017.
