Workshop on cooking and identity
Cooking is a wonderful way to engage with identity, migration, and memory, and to explore cultural exchange. Artist Hugo Palmar, artist-in-residence at CBK Zuidoost as part of BijlmAIR, therefore developed a special workshop resulting in new recipes.
In this workshop, participants are challenged to reflect on how food carries stories, history, and forms of knowledge, and how these are constantly changing through movement, encounters, and daily life.
Living archives
Together, participants develop recipes as living archives—a kind of composition combining ingredients, memories, gestures, and personal stories. These new recipes demonstrate how different cultural influences can converge. Cooking thus becomes a method for collective reflection, navigating differences, and imagining new forms of connection.
Inspired by the project Transidentiteitstafel, the workshop views identity as something fluid, relational, and constantly shaped through contact with others.
Program
The workshop is structured as follows:
1. Participants introduce themselves through a food memory or an ingredient that is important to them, followed by an explanation of the ‘Transidentiteitstafel’ project.
2. A short presentation on food history, migration, and colonial exchange.
3. Participants engage with ingredients, using scent, touch, taste, sound, and observation to reflect on the memories, emotions, places, and people that emerge.
4. Collaborative creation of a recipe through dialogue, negotiation, improvisation, and care. 5. The workshop concludes with the preparation of the recipe!
Practical info
Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: BijlmAIR Studio, Heesterveld 69-71
Please note: All necessary materials are provided, so you don’t need to bring anything with you.
The workshop is made possible in part by Imagine IC and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.