Stone Soup Session

INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE 05/2022 

Supported by the research group B&M reinvented (RAFA), Den Dam, Antwerp, Belgium

On the occasion of the soup session, we presented our research methodology on a work-in-progress site of the Den Dam, Antwerp, under the bridge of the ring (R1).

We present ourselves with Ruotala, our portable studio on wheels. We introduce our methodology of research and show how we use our research tools Living Equipment to collaborate with “liminal” public spaces of Antwerp.

The food prepared was made with collected spontaneous weeds. The artists talk about each plant present in the recipes introducing their strategy to reproduce and transform human-build environments and how their behaviors can be an inspiration for artistic methodology. 

On the menu and protagonist of the Soup session:

Open Laboratory Weeks

INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE 23-24 09/2022

Supported by the research group B&M reinvented (RAFA), Antwerp, Belgium

https://www.ap-arts.be/evenement/body-material-reinvented-open-laboratory-weeks

As a contribution to the Open Laboratory, we temporarily activated a common space in the parking space of the Academy at Blindestraat. 

We perform Cum-Panis to prepare food together with the participant and we perform the Gelatinografo to print on location. On this occasion, we used for the first time a Living equipment – Mapping Tool specifically made to map the threshold space of Antwerp. 

These tools were used to open conversation about the potential of so-called “liminal places”. 

During the “Open Laboratory Weeks”, we create situations to share knowledge around the following questions: How can we use liminal places for diverse and heterogeneous urban practices? How can we as artists and citizens reclaim them as public spaces?

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.