[2018] Kitchen Lab Experiments, exMedia KHM Fellowship

This entry shares images from Andrew Gryf Paterson's Fellowship residency at exMedia Lab, Kunsthogschule für Medien Köln (Media Art Academy Cologne) from Mid-October 2018 until late February 2019.

The images show the 'desktop kitchen lab' that Paterson set up and worked in within the new exMedia Lab for a period of 6 weeks, from 8th November to the 21st December 2018.

For more info about context: https://exmedia.khm.de/

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"It is my ambition to bring to the newly forming ExMedia lab an interest in exploring connections between experimental informatics and bioarts or ecological arts, especially through the practice of food hacking and \u2018kitchen lab\u2019 practices.

In addition to the practice-based experiments and research, I am interested to organise a gathering and seminar related to \u2018kitchen lab\u2019 practices can be a starting point for socially-engaged bioarts, art-science collaborations, and informatics at other levels of practice, including cellular, bacterial, molecular levels in collaboration with exMedia Lab at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln."

Early speculative directions of practice-led activity..

How can we come to terms with our data trails? - \u201cLets finally eat last year\u2019s calendar and be done with it..\u201d Imagine you send a letter, embedded with local culture that is beneficial for your addressee's stomach and intestines.. - Can we give a boost\u2019s to each other\u2019s gut microbiomes? Is there an ingestible ritual that acknowledges 6th mass extinction? [or some other ongoing catastrophe] - In Finnish language, when someone is grieving, they can say to that one, Otan osaa // I take part (of your suffering)..

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What is a Kitchen Lab?

Kitchenlab is a (bio-material & chemical) open lab developed around equipment available in the home kitchen, in conjunction with tools from other spheres of practice. Activity will aim to gather those interested in working between the studio, the kitchen and the laboratory, because food culture, experimental lab culture and artistic or creative practice overlap there. Kitchenlab as pedagogy can explore the following questions, related to social and participatory arts and heritage:

\u2013 How to be a good guest and/or be a good host in a kitchen lab?

\u2013 What tools and equipment are good to have?

\u2013 What are the other uses of the kitchen?

\u2013 How to communicate and document what goes on?

\u2013 How to transfer knowledge across generations, cultural distinctions, different species?

\u2013 How to contribute to the commons?

\u2013 How to socialize the activity beyond one\u2019s base?

* Based on text shared with Mindaugas Gap\u0161evi\u010dius, and used related to TOP (Berlin)\u2019s KitchenLab process: http://www.top-ev.de/kitchenlab/what-is-a-kitchenlab/

Related references:

van der Meulen, N. & Wiesel, J. (2017). Culinary Turn \u2013 The aesthetic practice of Cookery. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3031-2/culinary-turn/

Katz, Sandor, E. (2012). The Art of Fermentation. Vermont: Chelsea-Green Publishing.

Kelley, L. (2016). Bioart Kitchen: Art, feminism and technoscience. London: I. B. Tauris

Morton, T. (2013). Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Michigan Publishing/Open Humanities Press. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/13106496.0001.001