Cocostar
01/2026
Cocostar - an edible installation amidst the compost heaps of Terres d’Agroécologie, Chamouny. A project by Glenn Espinoza, CocoRush (Emily Esther Geraldine Laval), Mati Jhurry, and Meha Desai developed during a research residency, curated by resort, that focused on practices of agroecology in Mauritius through the lens of one plant - The coconut. This project was enabled and advanced by La Route des Plantes, Le Chant des Forêts, Move For Art and Terres d’Agroécologie.
Over the course of the residency we researched, cooked, walked, talked, tested and tasted ideas. We followed coconuts through stories, kitchens, gardens, songs, histories, and everyday labour. We looked at how knowledge circulates. Who carries it. What gets preserved and how.
Through this research, a recurring reality surfaced. Farms often work in isolation. Not the internal community of those who labour there, but the wider networks around them. People working in parallel, carrying similar questions, rarely meeting beyond transactional roles. Cocostar emerged as a response to this.
Cocostar became an attempt to bring community to the farm. Farmers, researchers, cooks, artists, neighbours. People who often work alongside one another without ever sitting at the same table. The degustation became a way of meeting, exchanging, and recognising shared ground across different forms of practice and knowledge.
This work continues through relationships rather than outcomes, carried forward by the people who gathered, cooked, tasted, listened, and stayed.
This project is funded by INTERREG VI and the European Union and Réunion Region.
Over the course of the residency we researched, cooked, walked, talked, tested and tasted ideas. We followed coconuts through stories, kitchens, gardens, songs, histories, and everyday labour. We looked at how knowledge circulates. Who carries it. What gets preserved and how.
Through this research, a recurring reality surfaced. Farms often work in isolation. Not the internal community of those who labour there, but the wider networks around them. People working in parallel, carrying similar questions, rarely meeting beyond transactional roles. Cocostar emerged as a response to this.
Cocostar became an attempt to bring community to the farm. Farmers, researchers, cooks, artists, neighbours. People who often work alongside one another without ever sitting at the same table. The degustation became a way of meeting, exchanging, and recognising shared ground across different forms of practice and knowledge.
This work continues through relationships rather than outcomes, carried forward by the people who gathered, cooked, tasted, listened, and stayed.
This project is funded by INTERREG VI and the European Union and Réunion Region.