Home is Where the Heart is (a collective recipe)

An object slowly floating lands in the palm of my hands, merging with the how that has been given to me in a continuous cycle of valuable exchange. As we cook, we remember the kinship we form through thinking together, otherwise – constructing a world in which communities are not seen as labels. Let this polyphony of scents invite you to experience the imaginative possibilities of a simple exchange of recipes.

‘Home is Where the Heart’ is has connected 10 individuals into a collective being which attended the first gathering of my ongoing project ‘The Kinship Cookbook’, called Home Sweet Home. Through reading and writing together, following a performance from one of the participants, creating an ephemeral in-situ installation with personal offerings and a collective dinner, we set off to rethink the domestic as a transformative space of diverse values. Through these collective moments, the participants wrote recipes which later on I activate through performance, sculptural interventions and installation – accentuating the necessity of embracing our queer kinships and exploring diverse embodiments of human and non-human nature.


Costume
Aidan Abnet

Animation
Sjoerd Beijers

Camera & Edit
Isaac Ponseele
Benjamin Ponseele

Music
Benjamin Schoones

Typography
Seppe-Hazel Laereman

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