CCI Performance Art Series: David Pérez Karmadavis, Sustento Diario (Daily Sustenance)

What recipe reminds you of home? Join Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) for a participatory culinary performance by Dominican artist David Pérez Karmadavis that explores the lived experience of migration through food, memory, and collective experience.

Presented as part of Beyond Representation, Edition 2, Sustento Diario (Daily Sustenance) brings together cooking, storytelling, and the sharing of a communal meal. In collaboration with Chef Valeri Fuentes of Verde, Karmadavis prepares dishes centered on the plantain—a staple across the Caribbean and Latin America and a familiar ingredient in Miami’s diasporic communities.

Screened at PAMM for the first time, a video-performance shows the artist carrying a bunch of green plantains through the city—a simple yet powerful gesture that evokes the memories, traditions, and lived experiences that migrants bring with them across borders.

Every recipe preserves stories, gestures, and ancestral knowledge passed from one generation to the next. Guests are encouraged to bring a favorite family or cultural recipe to contribute to a collective archive of memories, traditions, and flavors, making the experience one we create together.

Throughout the night, enjoy an extended happy hour (5–9pm) and a live vinyl DJ set by Jesús Rodríguez (Rum and Coke). The program is in Spanish with English translation.