smell what`s cooking

Cooking as a social practice

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Room H107, khb and public space

With Krishan Rajapakshe

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In the course Performative Spaces II we will explore the social, performative, power critical and creative potential of cooking.

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We will plan and organize three events (once in a public space) to which we will invite our guests and cook for them and with them.

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By opening up a space of hospitality, we create encounters that can be shaped.

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Is cooking like painting a picture? What performative potential lies in cooking itself? How can we use space and the body as a means of creation and design? Opening up a space for friends, what do we create by cooking for others? How do we create a social experiment ?

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On the basis of analyzing cookery shows, food cultures in Berlin and the question of the conditions under which the food we use is actually grown, we establish a link to current socially relevant issues.

Kitchens in particular are not free from power relations. We wanted to take a playful look at this and produce our own answers.