- : Toon Fibbe
Virginie Gauthier — Graphic Designer & Book Maker
Alejandro Ramirez
Natalie Dixon / director affect lab
There is something fascinating about building a kitchen, which goes beyond wood and nodes, sketches and stoves. Building a kitchen is not only a physical endeavor but an exercise in thinking: it is an invitation to unpack history through a place in which tastes, trades, and trends converge.
In Autumn 2018, we launched an online publishing platform and a new research theme, ‘A Matter of (In)digestions’: a call to pay attention to what we tend to take for granted, that is, what we consume, unfolding some of the socio-political, historical and cultural intersections that consumption implies. With this research program, we continue our exploration of the kitchen as a trope, as an alchemical laboratory, and catalyzer of a broad variety of ingredients—whether edible, cultural, or ideological.
La Cocina’s first season was developed in collaboration with architect Andrés Novo, and artists Mirko Lazovic and Igor Sevcuk. It took place in 2016-2017 at Goleb, an artist-run space located in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, and encompassed a series of events (debates, multimedia performances, screenings), an artist residency, a reading group, and an exhibition. This season took as a point of departure the kitchen as a contested space and put emphasis on the kitchen in its relation to standardization, acceleration,
- : Toon Fibbe
Virginie Gauthier — Graphic Designer & Book Maker
Alejandro Ramirez
Natalie Dixon / director affect lab