Food performance, theatrical cooking, lecture, Künstlerhaus 1050, 2019
In collaboration with Künstlerhaus Wien
With Alexander Nikolic, André de Vasconcelos, Club Mongo Bizarre
Under the title BAD KOCH / GOOD KOCH, organised by the BOEM* Association for the Promotion
of Art, Culture, Science and Communication, there will be good food
for everyone. Between cooking and analysing their concepts of practice
and recipes for self-organisation – and regarding their
process of transformation – guests from socio-cultural
initiatives will also be introduced.
The political climate is currently changing rapidly, and the art and
cultural scene is also facing major upheavals. Activist formats,
public space, and political-artistic declarations and
statements are becoming increasingly visible. Elections, election campaigns, and
protests are on the rise. Alternative forms of organisation are being
sought, conceived and even tested, intended to provide solutions and
strategies for positive future scenarios.
How can we still, today, in difficult social
circumstances, generate a culture of togetherness? Between
actors from socially precarious backgrounds, within and
outside academia, across social milieus and with low barriers to entry? What is
necessary to enable a productive translation into the practical context?
From 29 March, we’ll be at Künstlerhaus 1050.
We’ll eat whatever’s on the table. Whatever’s currently on the go
in the kitchen will be served. Whether it’s Good Koch or Bad Koch at the pots, you’ll
find out when you get there. Someone’s bound to go hungry.
We can’t always feed everyone. There just isn’t that much. If
the kitchen’s short on supplies, everyone brings something along.
It should be pan-friendly. But Bad Koch will teach you that
soon enough. In the beginning is the collective, and the question: Will we
still be able to bite down so powerfully tomorrow, even in times like these
?
Art, we learn, is the “ideal of craftsmanship” (Lissitzky) and
yet also “magic, freed from the lie of being truth” (Adorno),
“shared pleasure” (Nietzsche), “harmless and benevolent” (Freud), the
“perfection of nature” (Ovid), “a special form of proclaiming
a truth” (Higher Administrative Court of Münster), and also “a
mirror that ‘runs ahead’ like a clock” (Kafka) – no, “not a
mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Karl Marx
with which to shape it” (Marx).
Food performance, theatrical cooking, lecture, Künstlerhaus 1050, 2019
In collaboration with Künstlerhaus Wien
With Alexander Nikolic, André de Vasconcelos, Club Mongo Bizarre
Under the title BAD KOCH / GOOD KOCH, organised by the BOEM* Association for the Promotion
of Art, Culture, Science and Communication, there will be good food
for everyone. Between cooking and analysing their concepts of practice
and recipes for self-organisation – and regarding their
process of transformation – guests from socio-cultural
initiatives will also be introduced.
The political climate is currently changing rapidly, and the art and
cultural scene is also facing major upheavals. Activist formats,
public space, and political-artistic declarations and
statements are becoming increasingly visible. Elections, election campaigns, and
protests are on the rise. Alternative forms of organisation are being
sought, conceived and even tested, intended to provide solutions and
strategies for positive future scenarios.
How can we still, today, in difficult social
circumstances, generate a culture of togetherness? Between
actors from socially precarious backgrounds, within and
outside academia, across social milieus and with low barriers to entry? What is
necessary to enable a productive translation into the practical context?
From 29 March, we’ll be at Künstlerhaus 1050.
We’ll eat whatever’s on the table. Whatever’s currently on the go
in the kitchen will be served. Whether it’s Good Koch or Bad Koch at the pots, you’ll
find out when you get there. Someone’s bound to go hungry.
We can’t always feed everyone. There just isn’t that much. If
the kitchen’s short on supplies, everyone brings something along.
It should be pan-friendly. But Bad Koch will teach you that
soon enough. In the beginning is the collective, and the question: Will we
still be able to bite down so powerfully tomorrow, even in times like these
?
Art, we learn, is the “ideal of craftsmanship” (Lissitzky) and
yet also “magic, freed from the lie of being truth” (Adorno),
“shared pleasure” (Nietzsche), “harmless and benevolent” (Freud), the
“perfection of nature” (Ovid), “a special form of proclaiming
a truth” (Higher Administrative Court of Münster), and also “a
mirror that ‘runs ahead’ like a clock” (Kafka) – no, “not a
mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Karl Marx
with which to shape it” (Marx).
