Stone Soup
RESIDENCY 07/2020
Supported by Kunstenplatform PLAN B Antwerp, Belgium
Stone Soup, is inspired by an oral story in which two travellers travel from village to village. When they arrive in the village, they announce that they will make a soup with just a stone, they only ask each resident to bring a vegetable. In the end, the entire village eats the soup they made together. With that story in mind and equipped with nothing more than a portable oven and some kitchen utensils, we made an itinerary from Antwerp to the Ruppel River, where we spent the night in residents’ gardens and cooked with what was available. Using local ingredients and knowledge of how to make something with them to organize a collective meal.
Stone soup is conceived as itinerant research, to experiment with a nomadic methodology in rural areas.
The Living Equipment cum-panis and gelatinografo have been performed during the itinerary in Noeverm in the Ruppel region. The collected materials, about the territory’s ecologically and socially complex history, have been edited into the Stone Soup publication and redistributed on the location.
