Kochbox. Ein interaktiver Geschmacks-Dialog

In the organizer's words:

The groundtable collective, consisting of the artists Gift Lalicha Lalitsasivimol and Kitman Pik Chee Yeung, invites you to an interactive performance about food, memory and belonging. Together they explore how culinary knowledge is passed on across borders and is linked to issues of migration and identity. Using questions about ingredients, recipes and personal memories, the performance encourages people to think about taste, origin and shared experiences. From the reactions and stories of the participants, groundtable develops an individual snack. In this way, eating can be experienced as a practice of care, empathy and mutual understanding.

PARTICIPANTS

groundtable

groundtable is a collective that explores the idea of a universal culinary identity and the socio-anthropological dimensions of culinary heritage and migration. It explores the exchange of familiar and unfamiliar ingredients, recipes, stories, fictions and ideas. Using participatory methods such as workshops and recipe sharing, the collective works with local and international communities. groundtable was founded in Weimar in 2024 as the intersection of two artists: Gift, born and raised in Bangkok, and Kit, born in Hong Kong and raised in Perth, Australia.

Gift Lalicha Lalitsasivimol (born 1997, Bangkok)
With a background in interior design, Gift combines research-based approaches with curatorial practices and activates audiences through participatory methods and spatial narratives.

Kitman Pik Chee Yeung (b. 1999, Hong Kong)
An interdisciplinary artist with a background in neuroscience, Kit explores issues of identity through public interventions and participatory projects, often set in the context of migration.

Hải Nam Nguyễn (Curation)

Hải Nam Nguyễn is a Vietnamese independent curator and researcher working between Germany and Vietnam. His practice focuses on Southeast Asian art, the history of the former GDR and its contract workers, and solidarity movements among the socialist "brother countries" of the former GDR. In 2019, he was awarded the curatorial fellowship of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Nguyễn has curated exhibitions and contributed to research projects at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), the House of World Cultures Berlin, the Gay Museum Berlin, RMIT University Vietnam and the University of Erfurt. He is currently a guest curator at the Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum.

Minh Duc Pham (Curation)

Pham, Minh Duc is a Berlin-based artist whose practice emerges from artistic research on labor migration, memory and body politics. Through sculpture, installation and performance, he explores how social norms and regimes of care and control materialize in objects, textiles and everyday gestures. Floral motifs, industrial references and fragile presentation structures return as carriers of ambivalence between tenderness and resistance, preservation and erasure - spaces in which shared histories can be re-read and renegotiated. His works have been shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the Museum Utopie und Alltag Eisenhüttenstadt and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, among others.

- Price: free of charge

- Location: Mechanical Arena in the foyer

- belongs to: Destiny or Choice? and Relationships with Family