Kitchen talks

One point of origin for the evolution of culture was the modification of food through fire. Rituals of cooking and food are often very specific to a certain culture. Thus, the kitchen talks are an important part of the process, the purpose being to provoke curiosity for cultural differences and peculiarities among the participants and to encourage a dialogue in the loosening atmosphere of "taking something in".

The guest artists and the hosting team will stage a cooking event together. The aim is to engage in different cuisine and food cultures at one table. Sensory (savory) perceptions, but also the respect for cultural peculiarities will lead to an initial approach. The mutual process of preparing food will challenge our habits, mindsets and rituals; the curiosity for the otherness broadens to an involvement with the foreign individual, the other reality.

We will record the kitchen talks on video and show them in the exhibition area on Hainfeld Castle. [source]