Aisha Lesley Bentham

Aisha Lesley Bentham BFA, MA, internationally trained artist-scholar, vegan chef, ethnographic archivist and wellness coach from Tkoronto, has dedicated her life to researching the intersection of cooking and performance that looks to interrogate notions of care and eco-somatics.

Geon Nativa: Institute of Conjure is an education and research institute, here to activate and empower the future generations, with the use of ancient-futurity pedagogy of cookery, conjure and alchemy.

Aisha has a vast background: founding a residency for multi-disciplinary artists/creators called RootReach where artists work in triads to create solo works. As well as, building a vegan food hub, HUE Foods, where the community can access knowledge on vegan food and cooking knowledge to help them embrace a mindful lifestyle. And starring on Canada’s favourite show, Amazing Race Canada, season 7. She has worked with many companies, some of them such as IKEA Brussels, Jamieson Vitamins, Lululemon, UofT, Wu-Tang Clan, Nuit Blanche.

Aisha is a published author of her first Artbook; Spatialdisruptionofthe body. It is a collection of works spanning twelve years, that explores landscapes, visual articulations; physical and non-physical, captured through multiple mediums and practices. Aisha has now completed her 4th show called, Planetary OUDH Trilogy,  and will be debuting a workshop-reading of the 2nd part OUDH:origin in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Aisha’s love for knowledge has extended into teaching and sharing her research and passion for food and cooking through workshop’s, classes and creating content for social media. She has worked with local and international companies and lectured at some of Canada’s top universities.

With a diverse curriculum covering topics such as, intergenerational codes of memory, The ancients: fungi, trees and flowers, gastrotechnologies, numerical dissonance and much more.

With a strong focus on practice and play within our current multidimensional reality, each student will learn to strengthen their personal practices in grounding, observation and creating.