2 April 2026, 18:00 - 21:00
Open Kitchen TakeOver: Multilingual Recipes #1
kitchen-ing based project series
VOKU, FreeShop, workshop & performative lecture by Wang Xue Sophia
Hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
Organized by While Kitchen-ing
“I watch as flour slowly settles into the lines of my palms. At that moment, I became an imitator of Fatimah and Aminah from my hometown. I never needed to learn how to knead; I know how to scrape the wooden board clean with a cleaver. When I touch the flour, I return to childhood — a life I had only momentarily forgotten while rehearsing another.”
Moving between spoken reflection and embodied repetition, the work attends to forms of knowledge acquired without instruction: gestures carried in the body, transmitted through watching, and sustained even as languages, images, and public narratives are reshaped.
The performance dwells on flour embedded in skin, the rhythm of kneading, and the quiet persistence of certain movements across time. Audiences are invited to witness the unfolding, to listen, to smell, and to touch the dough.
This event welcomes anyone interested in embodied memory, ritual, food practices, and the subtle politics of everyday life.
Plan for the evening:
18:00 – 21:00
VOKU & FreeShop
19:30 – 20:30
Flour in the Palm Lines, Dough as Refusal
workshop & performative lecture
with Wang Xue Sophia
The workshop & performative lecture is open to all!
For your participation, including dinner, we ask for a donation between €8-15
#nowaste#vegan#kitchenrituals#unlearninghospitality#foodmemory#
The series is part of an ongoing, bountiful, collaboration with the collective and as a continuation of the research trajectory started during Fase2 of Basecamp and focused on mapping languages within and around the kitchen space and practice.
About the artist
Wang Xue Sophia is an artist working across documentary photography, moving image, performance, and writing. With a background in journalism and fine arts, her practice is rooted in her frontier upbringing and explores how embodied memory, ritual gestures, and everyday actions shape identity across generations.
Approaching voice and body as “corporeal archives,” Wang attends to the fractures and regenerations of lived experience. Her work traces the shifting relations between intergenerational memory and regional tradition, asking: Whose presence is recorded? Whose silence becomes visible?
wangxuesophia.link
About While Kitchen-ing
While Kitchen-ing is a practice-based research collective and multilingual kitchen group originally founded by MAFA alumni.
Treating cooking as a form of collective learning and political action, the collective engages the kitchen as a space for sharing knowledge, practising care, reconnecting with “nearby,” and experimenting with non-hierarchical ways of working together. Through cooking, catering, gathering, and hosting public events, While Kitchen-ing explores connections between food, culture, and social systems.
[id: A bowl filled with flour, with hands projected inside. It is the memory of grandmother’s hands kneading dough]
