Critical Cooking Show - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, Billie Muraben

Contributors Valeria Meiller, Agustin Schang, Mariana Sanchez Salvador, Rain Wu, MOLD, Yardy World, Linda Schilling Cuellar, Ayşenaz Toker, Merve Tuna, Ilana Harris-Babou, and more…

Through the act of cooking, kitchens establish implicit, visceral understandings of the world. No recipe is neutral; no tool universal. Since the advent of social media, and particularly since lockdown, people around the world have opened their personal kitchens to the unknown viewer. As an intimate, geosocial, critical space, kitchens are places for stories to be told; for new kinships to be made, and new alliances to be forged.

Critical Cooking Show is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.

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19 essays

The Cooking Show with Dirty Furniture

Dirty Furniture

The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we enjoy watching the preparation of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat…

Hands Correspondence

Asako Iwama, Iris Lacoudre, and Camille Sineau

Kitchen tools offer a support structure that generates social, environmental, and spatial situations, due to the gestures they involve and relations t…

Gold Water: Landscapes of Olive and Olive Oil

Mutfak مطبخ Workshop

Olive trees hold the living knowledge of Mesopotamia. Since ancient times, they represent life, peace, and solidarity in the region. Soil composition …

Veda

Laura Wilson

In Laura Wilson’s Trained on Veda, a malted loaf and evolving artwork connect bakeries and galleries through veda bread. This film departs from that…

The New World Syrup & The Fever Hand

Vivian Caccuri

The New World Syrup & The Fever Hand is a performance–lecture inspired by the return of yellow fever in South America. This old disease is deepl…

Let Us Heal Together

Zuri Camille de Souza

Filmed during and just after a two-month lockdown in Marseille, Let Us Heal Together is a visual exploration of a chalky, herbaceous landscape, as wel…

Moon Cook

Nelly Ben Hayoun and Rabah Ourrad

In Moon Cook, Nelly Ben Hayoun and chef Rabah Ourrad both prepare a traditional North African dish, couscous royal, from their kitchens in London and …

Danças

Luiza Prado de O. Martins

Danças is a meditation on the employment and preparation of three ingredients that connect the cuisines of Turkey and Brazil—okra, chilis, and oran…

Softening Cultures

Ben Goldner and Emma Leigh Macdonald

Consider the space of your kitchen. Who do you share it with? Are they human? Non-human? Could others be let in? Softening Cultures takes its time…

Mush Rooms

BUREAU, Walter el Nagar, and Filipe Felizardo

To be contemporary might mean to re-learn how to dwell in instability, in uncertainty. Now that the notion of progress (or capitalist modernism) seems…

Riders Not Heroes

2050+ and -orama

Riders Not Heroes investigates the precarious conditions of food delivery riders in Milan. It makes the case for riders as essential workers, stuck at…

Cooking with Stories

depatriarchise design, Mayar El Bakry, and Romi Lee

In a long, narrow, modernist kitchen, Mayar El-Bakry, a Swiss-Egyptian designer, is cooking. Using anonymously designed cooking tools and objects ubiq…

Nature is Healing

Ilana Harris-Babou

Nature is Healing presents the reflections of a character who has fled Brooklyn for the countryside during the spring of 2020. The protagonist documen…

object*oriented*magic

Ayşenaz Toker and Merve Tuna

An antidote to our relationship with the material world—generally framed by a rationalist apprehension of reality—object*oriented*magic creates ne…

The Avocado Toast

Linda Schilling Cuellar

A confluence of forces—human invention, neoliberal economic legislation, a wellness food trend, and patents taken out on nature—have led to the co…

Your Mouth Has Power

MOLD and Yardy World

Broadcasting from Crown Heights, Your Mouth Has Power is a collective message from Brooklyn about food sovereignty, resilience, and culture during a p…

As Above, So Below

Mariana Sanchez Salvador and Rain Wu

Empathy begins with acknowledging the position of our body in the world, not simply in relation to a different body, but also across time and dimensio…

The Case of Meat

Valeria Meiller and Agustin Schang

The Case of Meat explores manifold stories behind the meat industry in Argentina. Beginning with the personal narrative of Tata Moya, a former worker …

Editorial

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, and Billie Muraben

Critical Cooking Show is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy…

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Food & Cooking, Plants & Forests, Folklore & Tradition, Community, Human - Nonhuman Relations

Critical Cooking Show is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, and Billie Muraben Editorial
Valeria Meiller and Agustin Schang The Case of Meat
Mariana Sanchez Salvador and Rain Wu As Above, So Below
MOLD and Yardy World Your Mouth Has Power
Linda Schilling Cuellar The Avocado Toast
Ayşenaz Toker and Merve Tuna object*oriented*magic
Ilana Harris-Babou Nature is Healing
depatriarchise design, Mayar El Bakry, and Romi Lee Cooking with Stories
2050+ and -orama Riders Not Heroes
BUREAU, Walter el Nagar, and Filipe Felizardo Mush Rooms
Ben Goldner and Emma Leigh Macdonald Softening Cultures
Luiza Prado de O. Martins Danças
Nelly Ben Hayoun and Rabah Ourrad Moon Cook
Zuri Camille de Souza Let Us Heal Together
Vivian Caccuri The New World Syrup & The Fever Hand
Laura Wilson Veda
Mutfak مطبخ Workshop Gold Water: Landscapes of Olive and Olive Oil
Asako Iwama, Iris Lacoudre, and Camille Sineau Hands Correspondence
Dirty Furniture The Cooking Show with Dirty Furniture

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