For eleven days in July, the ifa Gallery in Stuttgart will be hosting an extraordinary programme: Spacedumpling. The gallery will be transformed into a lively meeting place with a mobile kitchen where the focus will be on cooking, eating, sharing recipes and telling stories. The collective cooking evenings are organised together with individuals, initiatives, groups and artists who are invited to share their recipes and the stories behind them and to prepare the proposed dishes together with the other guests.
Image above: Grafik: Ben El Halawany
When people leave their homes for a variety of reasons, cooking becomes an important medium to evoke memories and feelings of home. Preparing a meal and sharing it with others evokes certain moments and memories and offers the possibility of adapting to a new place and creating different visions of a shared future. Spacedumpling explores these questions: How do you cook away from home? How can cooking in a foreign city create a home? How do recipes change in a new environment? What memories, knowledge and feelings of home do recipes carry with them? How do diasporic and migratory realities of people, their dishes and their ingredients take shape?
Spacedumpling is the first chapter of Agua Quemada (Burnt Water), a programme of the ifa-Galerie Stuttgart that will provide the conceptual framework for the exhibitions and events for one year, addressing themes such as diasporic movements, memory, resilience, regeneration and community, as well as anestral technologies and forms of knowledge.
Initiators
The Spacedumpling programme was initiated in conversation with the Filipino artist and curator Merv Espina, whose practice and research is interested in the movement of ideas and courts through which counter-histories can be written and archives re-read. The concept for Spacedumpling was developed by Merv Espina, Bettina Korintenberg, Gabriel Rossell Santillán and Siri Thiermann.
Contributors and participants
Afghanische Frauen Stuttgart e.V.; Ania Corcilius; HTWG Konstanz Kommunikationsdesign; ifa Integration und Media Team; Iden Sungyoung Kim; Internationales Forum für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur e.V.. Irasema Fernández; Joanna Kühling; Kitchen_Ferm_Lab (Fanny Kranz and Max Kosorić); Lem TragNguyen; Mamma Mia! e.V.; Marina Lang; Nazanin Sahamizadeh; RATHAUS in Kochertürn: Daina Mattis, Elisabeth Roth; Sadya Mizan; Sun von Von OPA; Tuğçe Şahin Burchiellaro; Ypatia Selioni
WHEN?
Exhibition dates:
Monday, 1. July to Thursday, 11. July 2024
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 12 pm to 6 pm
WHERE?
ifa Gallery Stuttgart
Charlottenplatz 17
70173 Stuttgart
