BASEL @ kasko
http://www.kasko.ch
Room → http://www.kasko.ch/2012/index.php?/raum/
title generator https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/food-and-drink-phrases.html
*To do on the
- mesuring recipient - names to put on them - see line 220 - Mia
- recipie text - serving tips - Mia
- table cloth reference (make a plan) / beamer ref - slides
- preparing concretely files to be printed for table and to be beamed
- place mat layout and text decision
- List of objects to bring
- factsheets
- stickers
- table cloth
- printed ref
- Things to do in Basel
- Saturday agenda
- (groceries by Myriam Friday afternoon)
- arrival Sarah and Loraine Friday 21:55 — already see a bit presentation or just drinks or tisane ;)
- Saturday morning: install + presentation
- 16:00
- reminder and contact Kasko
send specific invitations:
- art+feminism group doing the workshop on monday
- Anne Valérie? already invited but she cannot :'(
- think about people, Loraine, some swiss connections?
Table size: 180cm x 75cm
*Table cloth content
- References
- Pictures
- extract / quotes
- names
- books titles
- Unbalancy of wikipedia
- Base of the recipe → place mat
- Upgraded recipes → place mat
*Things we want to beam
- collective practice
- other references ? video and websites
*Score content
- Welcoming
- Presentation of JFTR collective
- - the importance of food in relation with Louise & Cristian's role and cooking for us
- - present our activities to understand the proposal of the day and where it comes from (5-10 min presentation)
- - What we propose to do today in more details
- - cooking in relation with a collective practice
- - receipe for organizing a collective event? - We use the word recipe, another way of saying this would be that we would like to create a toolkit.
- - This recipe wants feedback. As you can see it contains different sorts of ingredients (food, practices of a collective, references to previous artists and works around feminism, dinnertables and collective practice) and we would like to invite you to add all sorts. Edible ingredients, references, other practices or ways of bringing people together etcetera.
- Presentation / reading of the actual cooking recipe -
- - Presentation and aknowlegment of the table cloth and tools ?
- (Martha Rosler - Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975)
- - Presentation of the participants - who are also part of the ingredients
- - why they came
- - what they bring to the table
- - Method (recipe/practical what-do-we-do-with-these-ingredients)
- - Serving tips
- Keep track of our collective event recipie
- - meet up page
- - place mat contribution
Elements of the recipe:
- Info-part
- Ingredients
- Method
- Serving Tip
different voices
nested ingredients
Object of dinner table (result of the whole event ?)
- Table cloth - 580 cm x 115 cm
- Napkins
- aprons
- plate mats
- jar
- serving recipients
Under the transparent tablecloth
- pictures of references
- names of feminists figures
- receipe bits
- 3 zones
- 1- gathering ingredient
- cooking bulghur (is kind of an ingredient)
- TOOLS
- ref: Martha Rosler - Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975
- 2- cut
- 3- mix & share
Placemat
- whole receipe?
- graphic invitations to edit
- graphic intervention to make it look like a note book foldable
- kitchy frame
Tools for cooking
- mesuring recipient
- spoons
- cups
- bowls
- mesuring scale → unbalanced
*References:
Alison Knowles' Make a Salad
http://www.saladforpresident.com/sfp-salads/alison-knowles-make-a-salad/
Hanna Wildow's The Family Dinner
www.thefamilydinner.se
Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
General article about her work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/t-magazine/judy-chicago-dinner-party.html
interesting introduction about it
http://b-ok.xyz/book/2641678/b22f3c
- Martha Rosler - Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuZympOIGC0
Example (design, phrasing):
http://www.afterhowl.com/Boiling%20Boullion.html
a bit further subject but on how to talk perform collectively or perfom in discussing, in telling a story
https://vimeo.com/78018686
feminist and ethic of care
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_care
The Empowerment Manual - Starhawk
https://sustainabilitypopulareducation.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/the-empowerment-manual_nodrm.pdf
*Recipe
*Edit-a-Table
- ⌛Prep time: 1 hour
- ⌚Total Cooking time: 3 hour
- ⋰ Level: Easy
- ♨ Serves: 15-25 people
- % Nutritional Guidelines: [feminist theory] [activism] [pleasure][care]
- 50g. 70g 100g. 10g
- Recommended daily consumption: at least 1 serving
- This recipe wants feedback. As you can see it contains different sorts of ingredients, be them literal or metaphorical, and we would like to invite you to add your own spice.
*Ingredients
- Chickpeas (pre-prepared)
- Lemon confit (pre-prepared)
- 10-25 participants who have introduced themselves to each other
- A collection of vessels to be shared with everyone
- Coriander
- Couscous
- fresh onion
- Mint
- Oil
- Salt
- Vegetable stock
- Writing material to keep track of recipe additions
*Prepwork and groundwork
- Form a feminist collective. You can research ways of organizing, by talking to other collectives or finding resources like The Empowerment Manual from Starhawk. https://sustainabilitypopulareducation.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/the-empowerment-manual_nodrm.pdf
- Receive an invitation or partner up with a venue or an organisation.
- Prepare a concept for the event and fine tune it together with your partners
- Don't forget to take into account the context of the venue (conceptual, financial and practical)
- Invite participants
- Specify what is provided (for example food or childcare) and if they need to bring anything
- As much as possible, try to ensure the event will be free of charge or affordable, by finding adequate funds, sponsors or partnerships.
- Prepare the practical material for the event : print material, technical equipment, food...
- Organise the space in a way that is welcoming for everyone - research references if necessary, for example the Dinner Table by Judy Chicago
*Method
- Check out the instructions and ingredients in front of you.
- Think collectively of how you would like to contribute to the recipe
- Organise into a comfortable formation, for example in a circle or in smaller work-groups
- Place burghul in a bowl. Cover with boiling water and let it soak.
- In the meantime, start to chop up the ingredients to re-arrange their parts.
- Fry, boil, shake, crush or use any other alteration method, to make the ingredients your own.
- Add herbs and political spices to give it the desired flavour and purpose.
- Put all the ingredients in a bowl. Keep in mind your ratio in relation to that of others, how they contextualise each other.
- Consider creating a new, separate bowl with a more specific purpose if needed.
- You can also find references to guide you, for example Alison Knowles' Make a Salad http://www.saladforpresident.com/sfp-salads/alison-knowles-make-a-salad/
- Stir to combine.
- Preview, taste, and feel free to adapt, write down your recipe modifications. If you have contributed to several bowls, note how they are linked to each other.
- Place oil and lemon juice in a screw-top jar. Secure lid. Shake to combine. Drizzle over.
*Serving tips
- Come back to your bowl and assess how your ingredients have been altered.
- Share with the people around you and talk about what we have been working on
- Eat together, talk together, for example like the project The Family Dinner http://thefamilydinner.se
- Measuring cups brainstorm:
- Collective measure - you, me, all of us,
- Pleasure, solidarity, care
- The concept of a scale of for example"1 pint", translated to feminism. For example the scale up to "revolution" :
- revolution
- uproar
- shouting
- chanting
- gossip
- murmur
- whisper
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Preparation:
what is your budget? having a transparent budget
- preparing a welcoming/inspiring environment
- sharing references
- sharing food and drinks
- childcare if possible
- accessibility (though we never really considered it)
- arranging the room in a way that facilitates connection between people
- cookies anecdote
*Notes from 26th of August
A participative moment for cooking / cooking an article / cooking a kit / collective editable cooking recipe
Starting from a recipe that we prepare in advance, which incorporates “ingredients” from the organisation of an event (care, welcoming inclusive safer space, reflections on institutions, structures), references (Alison Knowles' Make a Salad, Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, Hanna Wildow's The Family Dinner program mixing feminists writings into a conversation…), tools and food ingredients, for a hummus and tabbouleh(?)
We invite people to bring a tool or an ingredient, we gather in groups around different tables or a big table, and we prepare the different parts of the recipe together, editing the score as we go along, talk, add things, remove things, etc!
+ table cloth or plates or tools on which we draw/print inspiring elements (? to be defined)
*Title proposition
something with care and recipe?
- edit a tabouleh
- edit a recipe
- Feeding frenzy
The proof of the pudding is in the eating- A recipe for disaster
Recipe for successOn the menu- à la carte
- concoction
- reference to witches' chaudron
- read / talk / edit recipe
- Cooking up a storm
- edit table → edit-a-table
- Edit-à-table
- edit-a-table with spoon
- edit-a-table with care
- care for some edit-a-table?
- edit-a-table resources
- edit-a-table recipes
- The edit-a-table experiment
- ingredients
- A bowl of edit-a-table
- A bowl of tools
- read / talk / edit / eat
- editing with care
- vegeditable
- just for the care
- just for the recipe
*Presentation text
Over the past years we have been arranging events addressing gender bias in the online rewriting of history, using Wikipedia as a case study to question the way we write, record and archive history today. Creating a welcoming space where all participants are comfortable to contribute, both physically as well as online, has always been an important part of our gatherings and one of the tools we have used for this pupose has been food. This time around we are interested in bringing food center stage, working on questions of collective writing through sharing and editing recipes together, and see them as a toolkit for organizing events with feminist perspectives and structures.
Participants are welcome to take part in this collaborative cooking table by bringing food, tools and tips to edit and spice up the recipe, engaging all of us in discussions and reflections, mixing ingredients such as feminist writings, care, inclusivity, safe places etc.
To be asked to the participants
We ask each participant to bring:
a fruit and a vegetable and/or cooking tool
*EMAIL for L & C
Dear Louise and Cristian,
How are you?
Very sorry for our late answer, we were on a long summer break!
You will find here a more elaborated proposition for our participation to ERIAZO on the weekend of the 3d and 4th of November:
- (working title)
- Edit-a-table Recipes
- Over the past years we have been arranging events addressing gender bias in the online rewriting of history, using Wikipedia as a case study to question the way we write, record and archive history today. Creating a welcoming space where all participants are comfortable to contribute, both physically as well as online, has always been an important part of our gatherings and one of the tools we have used for this pupose has been food. This time around we are interested in bringing food center stage, working on questions of collective writing through sharing and editing recipes together, and see them as a toolkit for organizing events with feminist perspectives and structures.
- Participants are welcome to take part in this collaborative cooking table by bringing food, tools and tips to edit and spice up the recipe, engaging all of us in discussions and reflections, mixing ingredients such as feminist writings, care, inclusivity, safe places etc.
It would be also good to send some days before the event a reminder to the participants, asking them bring tools and ingredients (we still need to precise inbetween us the dish we will propose), but it might look something like this:
- → To the participants
- We ask each participant to bring:
- one food item/vegetable and/or cooking tool
- There are no limitations as to what you can bring, but the starting point of the dish we are cooking will be a tabbouleh.
The workshop/presentation/colective cooking spectacle will in the end result in a recipe (toolkit) that we have edited together with the crowd, and that can be shared with all the participants. We will also have prepared some other documents and references that will be introduced as ingredients.
We propose you the following schedule:
Saturday afternoon, starting between 16:00 and 17:00 > so we can prepare an apero! 2-3 hours active event, and then chill, eat and hang out.
For our project we would need the following equipment:
- a big table or a small one (depending on what they have there) but good to know ahead what we should be expecting.
- basic cooking equipment (what do they have there? is there a portable hot plate to heat things in the room we'll be + pans?) — we will also ask the participants to bring one cooking tool of their choice, but just in case! Bowls, cutting mats, one mixer, knives, …Again, the most important for us is to know ahead what we should expect.
- it would be good to find a big bowl (big big) even up to diameter 1m would be awesome! Or a few medium sized ones.
- a beamer
- do you have a budget for chic peas, tahini, semoule, parsley, mint and drinks in the evening?
We looked at plane tickets: most of us would take the flight from Brussels to Basel which arrives on Friday late evening at 21:55 and go back to Brussels on Sunday at 19:10 — does it seem fine for you?
Looking so much forward to this!
Sorry again for the long wait over the summer.
All the best,
To be asked to the participants
We ask each participant to bring:
one vegetable and/or cooking tool
Preparation:
what is your budget? having a transparent budget
- preparing a welcoming/inspiring environment
- sharing references
- sharing food and drinks
- childcare if possible
- accessibility (though we never really considered it)
- arranging the room in a way that facilitates connection between people
- cookies anecdote
MATERIAL TO PREPARE