21 May 2026
Open Kitchen TakeOver: Multilingual Recipes #3
kitchen-ing based project series
VOKU, FreeShop and performative gathering by the Hum Duo
organized by While Kitchen-ing
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
The performance explores bodily forms of expression that challenge the confines of language. Together, we invite each other and the audience to use rice and humming for ritual as a way of communicating and connecting our memories and the lands. Can “hum” and “food” be a language to trace the unspoken memories which had impacted us? How can we root ourselves in unfamiliar soil, and how can collective presence become a form of healing? Will this land hold us back when we are standing on it and performing rituals from another land? This performative gathering is both a dialogue and a hum, a cross-cultural collaboration that does not rely on a single language, and an ongoing search for a sense of belonging. We try to hold each other while trying to connect with the land around us.
Plan for the evening
18:00 – 20:00
VOKU & FreeShop
19:30 – 20:30
Will This Land Hold Us?
performative gathering
by the Hum Duo (Changli Cui Luo and Fatemeh Asiri)
About the Hum Duo
The Hum duo consists of Changli Cui Luo and Fatemeh Asiri both based in Utrecht. Together, through their duo they work with performative languages to connect with their “migrant bodies”. Hum to them is not simply a sound, but that subtle vibration that bridges bodies, memories, and geographies. For Changli and Fatemeh, hum embodies a state of becoming, an ongoing attunement to the frequencies of lived experience, the voices that have been silenced, and the stories and memories that persist in movement.
Image Credit
Performers: Fatemeh Asiri, Changli Cui Luo, Developed for the Festival of Poetry-Shaped Art
Photos: Sophia Wang Xue
Design poster: Changli Luo
[id: Changli and Fatemeh sit across from each other with their right hands on each other's right arm and their their left hand touching a bowl placed in between them. It seems to be holding liquid. Another layer of the image shows the two performers bending towards each other, holding the bowl in their hands. Brown swirling text around them reads: Will this land hold us? How can we root ourselves in unfamiliar soil, how can collective presence become a form of healing? Can "hum" and "food" be a language to trace the unsporen memories which had impacted us?]
