11m3 projectraum, Weimar | Participatory Installation & Exhibition
Curated and produced the exhibition From Ground to Table, featuring the Cooking Machine: a modular, mobile culinary platform that functions as a participatory installation and adaptable food vendor. The project facilitated cultural exchange through interactive cooking and a complementary research-based cookbook.
Funding: Kreativfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2024-2025)
2025
This cookbook holds our thoughts with food since moving to Germany, shared through recipes and narratives of migrating ingredients, people, and cultures. It accompanies the [Cooking Machine]—a mobile food platform we developed with modular cooking units that adapt to different cuisines.
Acclimatization comes through familiarity with its ingredients. Sharing food on a larger table helped us realise there was more in common than expected. Dishes we had once identified with are similarly caught in local narratives of others. How do we navigate the globalised identity through how our tastes multiply?
Together, this project is an artistic research through food exchange as methodology. It is facilitated through both the editable cookbook and the adaptable cooking platform. While the cookbook begins by documenting familiar recipes and their adapted forms, it also invites public interaction, to contribute their own recipe variations and annotated manuscripts. Meanwhile, the cooking platform borrows the social role of the informal street vendor, accommodating flavors shaped by movement and migration.
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