As a part of the European Academy of Participation hosted at Herengracht 401 a group formed to take care of the very simple and practical task of preparing lunch and dinner for all those who attended. While chopping, stewing, and stirring, certain thematic trajectories intuitively emerged and were explored: Limits as possibilities Cultures of cooking…
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Networks of people, things, and places don’t emerge from thin air. They are choreographed, staged, plotted, and planned. This workshop, within the context of The Autonomous Fabric research at the Willem de Kooning Academy, explored the table as a scene. It looked at the ritual of eating together as a catalyst for exchange. Working with…
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This is one of the earliest (1999) projects in my practice where eating a meal together was central to collective research. De Geuzen, Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and I programmed and designed a performative dinner accompanied by different textual table coverings and take-home quotes related to the work of Michel de Certeau. In this respect,…
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