Inspired from the endangered southern Italian mediterranean coasts, this is a table which stands as a cut out of an habitat, an edible landscape to be explored through a special cutlery.
Sea urchins, musky octopus and blue crab become not only tools, but representatives of a habitat that can be felt, embodied and participated as a form of a culinary resistance, a way to rethink the local obsession with food that causes over-extractivism of natural resources for the sake of cultural representation.
This dining platform is designed to host events and collective tasting experiences where the public is allowed to take action and try and embody one of those critters, to possibly feel what they feel and eat what they would eat. The menu is based on the real diet of each animal, and carefully crafted for the experience, compelling wild sea fennel, salicornia and sea lettuce as the main ingredients for many experimental recipes like: seaweed pasta, seaflower bread rocks, sea hummus and salicornia salad.
Salicornia Studio
Federico Rizzo (b. 1998) is a designer and researcher whose work allows interspecies encounters within various habitats, enabling a shift in the food-chain hierarchies and supply economy.
Federico has recently graduated in the MA programme The Critical Inquiry Lab at Design Academy Eindhoven and he is currently developing a practice related to food here in the Netherlands. Salicornia studio is his workplace in Eindhoven.
16th of May, 19:30 - 21:35. Enjoy this installation during the Open City Monastery evening on the 16th of May. Click here to reserve your free entrance ticket! For questions, please send an email to program@mediamatic.nl.
