Patissier collaborator: Irina Ionita

I copied 1 square meter of my (grandma’s) garden into a chocolate cake and we ate it collectively.

Presented:
Non Depleted, Haus der Statistik, Berlin ↗

Dutch Design Week, ABOVE THE FALLOW LAND, Eindhoven ↗

Patissier collaborator: Irina Ionita

I copied 1 square meter of my (grandma’s) garden into a chocolate cake and we ate it collectively.

When does intimacy with land become consumption? This investigatory work plays with the tension between tending and devouring. When does relationship with land implies the exclusion for others of a similar interaction. (Can we have a more polyamorous relationship to landownership?)

By eating, we appropriate matter into our own bodies. At the same time is sharing food often a unifying gesture. It made me curious whether collectively eating this piece of land would evoke division or communality.

Presented:
Non Depleted, Haus der Statistik, Berlin ↗

Dutch Design Week, ABOVE THE FALLOW LAND, Eindhoven ↗

Patissier collaborator: Irina Ionita

I isolated one square meter of my garden and meticulously replicated it as a hyper-real chocolate cake.

This garden has given me lots of nature-bound lessons, but I’ve been confused how the notion of a garden also implies control and devision. (It’s not coincidental that the words Garden and Paradise share the same etymological background; enclosure/border.)

When does intimacy with land become consumption? This investigatory work plays with the tension between tending and devouring. When does relationship with land implies the exclusion for others of a similar interaction. (Can we have a more polyamorous relationship to landownership?)

By eating, we appropriate matter into our own bodies. At the same time is sharing food often a unifying gesture. It made me curious whether collectively eating this piece of land would evoke division or communality.

A performance on sharing, land ownership, and borders; a sugarcoated conversation on how we consume, divide, exploit, appropriate, and relate to land and soil.

Presented:
Non Depleted, Haus der Statistik, Berlin ↗

Dutch Design Week, ABOVE THE FALLOW LAND, Eindhoven ↗