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Presenting the [dis]comfort food series at Grey Space in the Middle, serving Gin Gamblet in one of the experimental cutleries.

One of the guest of the first metaphysical tasting session observing the VR world.

Presenting the [dis]comfort food series at Grey Space in the Middle, image of participants.

Pariticipant serving cake at Roodkapje in 1 hour long performance installation

Presenting the [dis]comfort food series at Grey Space in the Middle, introduction text and menu.

Group show at Korzo Theatre

Group show at Korzo Theatre

Experimental tool at W139 used for a dinner performance in How to Set Your Sign on Fire collaboration between Fiber Festival and Sophia Bulgakova

At some point in time, the idea of the consumption of food was transformed from a biological necessity into a carefully cultured phenomenon of lifestyle. All the information we have about food and eating has been passed on and developed from generation to generation to the cultures of today. These are the things we call our table manners or food ethics. The ways we consume and process or choose to socialize around food. In my perspective, these ideas were built to reduce violent social interactions, as well as crave for stronger bonds urging people to find spaces where they can be peaceful; like a dinner table. Since food and dining are very important ways for social interactions, securing unity and eradicating violence may have become cultural missions for some. But is it the case? How effectively do societies establish this peace at the table? The dinner focuses on visualizing dinner scenarios as a performative act that plays with the ideas of Western table manners. It comes from questioning the possibilities of creating different eating scenarios and behavior at the dinner table, by simply not holding our cutleries with our hands. This will allow us to explore how much change this behavior would bring to our accustomed table manners and the accepted etiquette around the dinner table.

At some point in time, the idea of the consumption of food was transformed from a biological necessity into a carefully cultured phenomenon of lifestyle. All the information we have about food and eating has been passed on and developed from generation to generation to the cultures of today. These are the things we call our table manners or food ethics. The ways we consume and process or choose to socialize around food. In my perspective, these ideas were built to reduce violent social interactions, as well as crave for stronger bonds urging people to find spaces where they can be peaceful; like a dinner table. Since food and dining are very important ways for social interactions, securing unity and eradicating violence may have become cultural missions for some. But is it the case? How effectively do societies establish this peace at the table? The dinner focuses on visualizing dinner scenarios as a performative act that plays with the ideas of Western table manners. It comes from questioning the possibilities of creating different eating scenarios and behavior at the dinner table, by simply not holding our cutleries with our hands. This will allow us to explore how much change this behavior would bring to our accustomed table manners and the accepted etiquette around the dinner table.

Serving soup with the tool Belly

Residency outcome, test dinner

Multi-sensorial ways to approach to cutleries. Image of Wareable Ladle

Crossmodal installation at Heden

Picture from the event; Second Act The second act was with our friend from FilMis, a group based in Rotterdam fighting for the rights for unregistered workers who are from Philippines. The Course ; rice with tofu and tempeh and learning Philippines Dining Etiquette.Creating a discussion over unregister working rights.

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Image from the performance, Tension Machine