An imaginative banquet to weave new culinary alliances between humans and non-humans, a gastronomic ritual that interweaves knowledge and tastes in a multispecies ecology.
Recipes as acts of resistance, kitchens as laboratories of cohabitation, where nourishment becomes an ethical and political gesture, a dialogue with natural resources to recode our very existence in a wounded world. Here, the spoon is a mediator, the plate a manifesto: toward a convivial interdependence that reconfigures our place in the vibrant web of the living.
Multispecies Dinner is a culinary design project that combines traditional recipes from Mediterranean coastal environments with an animal perspective, offering a distinctive culinary experience that provides an intimate understanding of marine habitats. Specific animals, such as sea urchin, musk octopus, and blue crab, become cutlery, allowing guests to feed on a dining table reminiscent of a natural habitat, where steel puddles are filled with seaweed pesto and surrounded by bread made from seaweed flour. Dinner begins and ends with the sound of an outboard motor, positioned in the center of the table, which serves as both a speaker and a container for tools.
The cutlery set represents the most essential element of the project, which invites a playful rethinking of traditional approaches to food. The project provides a playful and accessible understanding of important issues such as hyper-extractivism and the commodification of vernacular knowledge, which are at the heart of our supply economy. Food production has a great impact on coastal environments, as transportation of ingredients and uncontrolled fishing practices disturb the delicate balance that connects various habitats. A trawler destroying a seaweed meadow can greatly affect the economy of a local fishing community, and so on.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Keuken Confessies