Workshop:On Being Familiar

Elia Nurvista will use this workshop as an invitation to unpack our embodied knowledge about cooking and use the kitchen utensils that are usually taken for granted. By preparing certain recipes from Indonesia together with the audience, we will explore how food and the kitchen can be tools to examine gender, labor and  collective power.

The workshop will be held in English.

Elia Nurvista employs a wide range of artistic media and an interdisciplinary approach in her focus on the discourse about food. Through food, she scrutinizes hegemonic power regimes and uncovers social and economic inequalities in this world. In workshops, study groups, and publications or site-specific interventions, performances, videos, and art installations, she investigates the social implications of the food system, while critically addressing issues such as ecology, gender, class, and geopolitics.

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Originally On Being Familiar was planned as a spatial intervention and workshop by Elia Nurvista and Marta Fernández Calvo. Due to problems with the visa, this had to be cancelled. The workshop would have proposed a collective exercise to reimagine food while reflecting on labour and care, based on the activation of a series of recipes and objects.