The people that made this project special are many! Making this work is the result of the collective participation, creativity and support of more than 50 people. Some of you shaped took part from the beginning to the end of cooking this project, some of you contributed here and there some flavours. What matters is that everyone shaped our experience in unique ways. THANK YOU for that!
Special gratitude goes to:
Ana, Fernandes, Hani, Joseph, Juliette and Nima who made a composition for the cassettes. Oliva and Philine for hosting the weekly Crafting with Textile sessions at De Voorkamer, Renata for giving us a taste of the world of knitting machines, Fiona and Meghann for introducing me to De Voorkamer, Yetunde and the cooking group for the magic that you create in community kitchens. Betina and Juliette, design coordinators of the residency, for being there to think together, to sea more clearly in moments of fogginess and always feel supported along the way. To the Voorkamer and everyone working and volunteering there for being who you are, working on making a space for connection, curiosity and playfulness. A place where everyday life gets to feel more magical and where we meet each other in our differences and sameness!
Special gratitude goes to:
Ana, Fernandes, Hani, Joseph, Juliette and Nima who made a composition for the cassettes. Oliva and Philine for hosting the weekly Crafting with Textile sessions at De Voorkamer, Renata for giving us a taste of the world of knitting machines, Fiona and Meghann for introducing me to De Voorkamer, Yetunde and the cooking group for the magic that you create in community kitchens. Betina and Juliette, design coordinators of the residency, for being there to think together, to sea more clearly in moments of fogginess and always feel supported along the way. To the Voorkamer and everyone working and volunteering there for being who you are, working on making a space for connection, curiosity and playfulness. A place where everyday life gets to feel more magical and where we meet each other in our differences and sameness!
Breakfast Archive
Sound installation
Breakfast Archive is an extensive journey into the invisible sides of breakfast. The sound installation is composed of 8 CDs that invite listeners into 8 different breakfast scenes.
Breakfast is one of the first activities of everyday life. It is a moment to start our day, to transition between night and day, and feed our bodies to get ready for what comes next. There is many ways of having breakfast, but usually we don’t re-invent the way every day. Our eyes see the colors and shapes of our breakfast ingredients, notice the weather of the day or new images on our social media feeds. But what if we listen? What stories come to the surface when listening to breakfast?
Emma Pham, Coffee's route, 0m57s
Relle Brugman, Morning Chaos and a Cats Breakfast, 2m13s
Livia Franssen, 365 Seeds, 2m29s
Kristina Mau Hansen, Frühstück mit Oma, 3m20s
Dafni Petratou, Morning Walk, 1m29s
Rocco Sette, Good Morning Voices, 2m08s
Edoardo Amaniera, Onlycertainty, 0m16s
Sergi Domenech Carbo, Just Breakfast with Roosters, 2m23s
Concept and curation: Kristina Mau Hansen
Workshops: Kristina Mau Hansen and Dienke Groenhout
Artists and co-curators: Dafni Petratou, Dienke Groenhout, Edoardo Amaniera, Emma Pham, Livia Franssen, Kristina Mau Hansen, Relle Brugman, Rocco Sette, Sergi Domenech Carbo
Photography: Livia Franssen
Location and support: De BBLTHK Wageningen
Funding: Gemeente Wageningen
Morning Meal
Performance
Morning Meal is an interactive performance about breakfast in collaboration with performing artist YiLing Hung. We explore one of the most mundane moments in our lives: breakfast. With a focus on breakfast soundscapes and their connected memories, we engage with the audience in dialogues about personal history, food culture and identity.
In this performance, we take an autobiographical approach by documenting and sharing our own daily breakfast routine. Our work resonates and questions how different places and their cultural contexts shape one’s identity and emotional cartographies of breakfast. Through field recordings, reflective storytelling, breakfast ingredients, we perform ourindividual breakfast stories. Contrasting narratives about experiences with bread come to the surface, unpacking our different cultural and personal relations with common breakfast food. The focus on breakfast soundscapes also weaves through the interactive part of the performance. We invite the audience to recall their earliest sonic breakfast memory and describe the sounds one can hear while preparing or eating breakfast.
It is within collectively mapping these everyday narratives, the soundscapes of everyday life, the vague memories of past breakfasts, where we find new poetic gestures. A gesture that re-navigates usual ways of relating to everyday life, food, mundane routines, and our ways of having collective conversations about them.
Morning Meal, Kristina Mau Hansen
Morning Meal, YiLing Hung
Photos: Livia Franssen
You, an unsoaked red bean
Situated sound walk
This composition is an intimate sonic journey of my friendship with Esteban. In this piece, I take food as a lens to talk about identity and interpersonal relations. Asking multiple common friends in the Netherlands the question: ‘If Esteban would be a dessert, what would he be?’, we composed together an interwoven sonic metaphor of friendship. End of 2020, Esteban returned to his home country Costa Rica - a move creating physical distance between his and my life. Listening back to YOU, AN UNSOAKED RED BEAN is an evocative step into the past which brings back a sense of closeness. It is a reminder of the power of sonic mediums to transcend geographical distances and create spaces of proximity.
You, an unsoaked red bean
Photo: Esteban Montero Sanchez
Yellow Spice
Concept and dancer: Anand Dhanakoti
Sound design: Kristina Mau Hansen
Photography: Kristina Mau Hansen
Dramaturgy: Allegria Van Poppel Lubeigt
Year: 2022
People love exploring India for its rich culture and beauty. But this choreography shows an aspect of the country, which most of the explorers are unaware of. Anand belongs to the Dalit caste, also known as 'untouchables'.
In his dance he explores what it means to live in a censured body using elements of Kalaripayattu (Indian Marshal arts), contemporary dance & South-Indian folk forms.
In his dance he explores what it means to live in a censured body using elements of Kalaripayattu (Indian Marshal arts), contemporary dance & South-Indian folk forms.
