Roundtables, workshops, RadioShow, food & freeshop
Organized by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN with co-conspirers in the FieldMealNetwork: Marina Monsonís (Barcelona), Giulia Orlandi (Berlin) and Abraham Tettey (Ghana)
Tuesday 16 - Thursday 18 September
The b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN is proud to introduce you to their extended international sporulation of collective food practices called the FieldMealNetwork. They are a tentacular network of kitchens located in museums and cultural institutions. The individuals who are part of this network cook, collaborate, and engage in culinary spaces that are institutional, para-institutional, underground, autonomous, cooperative, and self-managed.
The FieldMeal kitchens are shaped by the following axes of learning, research, and practice: migrant and diverse agroecology, food sovereignty, the re-transmission of glocal knowledge related to food, place-based pedagogies, transgenerational approaches, and the dynamization and creation of collective kitchens with a DIY (Do It Yourself) hybrid attitude, fostering communal joy.
Although the defined issues permeate these kitchens located in Berlin, Utrecht, and Barcelona, each of them is characterized by having deeper focuses on one or more of these aspects.
The network sees hospitality as a tool for social change and caring for each other in a time of social and cultural disruption. Durig these three days we will share food, soundtracks, skills, crafts and strategies to sustain each other’s food practices and Community Kitchen networks.
#FieldMealNetwork#UnlearningHospitality#RelearningHospitality#CookingUpCommunity#With-in/With-outInstitutions
*Tuesday, 15.00 – 18.00
COLECTIVE EDIBLE ORACLE
Constellating food and spiritual sovereignities
a workshop to collectively co-create an oracle to think around food systems
with Marina Monsonís
Followed by dinner by b.a.k.
*Wednesday, 14.00 – 17.00
Embroidery and Political Somatics
workshop around the kitchen table
with Giulia Orlandi
Followed by dinner by b.a.k.
19.00 - 20.00
RadioShow at StrandedFM
with Sonic Kitchen & Black Earth Radio
*Thursday, 16.00 - 20.00
GƆBƐ 2.0: SUSTAINABLE CARE STRUCTURES FROM DAAVI’S KITCHEN
workshop & cooking session with Abraham Tettey
Followed by the regular VOKU
There are limited spots for each of these workshops,
make sure to reserve your place via joining@bakonline.org
To participate, we suggest a donation between €7-25 for the workshop and dinner
About the workshop facilitators
Marina Monsonís is a visual artist who works with hybrid and heterogeneous processes of social transformation rooted in territories and in collective, community and pedagogical projects. She deals with a variety of topics, such as marine sciences, place-based design, gastronomy, graffiti, radical geography, ethnography and critical, oral and gestural memory. Her projects connect the kitchen with political, critical, social and transgenerational aspects and aim to create debates and transmit knowledge about the complexities and conflicts that inhabit km 0. She is interested in the coexistence of radical spaces where people become constellated in research, techniques, local and global knowledge. Spaces that can be old or emerging, but are maintaining a generous and enriching ecosystem, where joy, exchange and harmony dominate the table. She has directed The Kitchen at MACBA since it began in November 2018.
Giulia Orlandi is an urban planner focused on urban sociology who is deeply involved in social-political processes and regenerative activism. As a part of CitizensLab and in Collective Care Berlin, they explore alternative learning through unlearning. They work to build inclusive and sustainable communities. In the last 7 years she focused on the political and social dimension of women or more broadly of the LGBTQIA+ community and the close connection to food and the socio-cultural value it brings. In the field of food and popular kitchens, they carry out collectivization projects of a specific kitchen located within a social and collective space called Wilde 24 in Berlin.
Abraham Tettey is a Ghanaian artist and curator whose practice traces memory and materiality while interrogating digital futures and decolonial possibilities. Moving between archival research, socially engaged practices and building cultural infrastructures, he explores how art can hold space for absence, resistance and reimagining within postcolonial contexts.
He works through exhibitions, conversations and printed matter, tracing how knowledge lives, preserved, shared and transformed within both formal and informal systems.
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