Join us in the gallery for Space Meal, a multi-course dinner by artist and chef Tessa Liebman, presented in conversation with the work of artist Mari Nagem to mark the closing of her solo exhibition at CUE, The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars. Space Meal does not propose a menu for outer space. Instead, it begins here on Earth, where changing environments, new technologies, and inherited knowledge continually shape and reshape what we consume. Nagem’s exhibition moves between a hyper-heated Earth and speculative environments on the Moon and Mars, considering transformations to bodies, materials, technologies, and living systems as they encounter new conditions. Space Meal brings these provocations to the table; food is equally adaptive: it can be preserved and dried, carried from one context to another, altered by heat, shaped by available resources, and informed by the tastes and habits we acquire along the way. Developed in response to works in the exhibition, the menu draws from homegrown culinary traditions alongside ingredients and techniques that evoke changing landscapes, imagined ecosystems, geological time, and new and longstanding technologies. Each dish will be situated in direct relationship to the spatial and conceptual environment of the exhibition, temporarily transforming the gallery and offering a sensory and embodied exploration of taste, texture, and place. Throughout the evening, questions of preservation, migration, and survival ground our perceptions of ecological change. The conditions of life on Earth are already shifting. What foods and practices might endure? And even as we imagine new futures, both here and elsewhere, what familiar tastes, desires, and contradictions will we insist on bringing with us?