Summer Club Kitchen Workshop
23 July to 28 August 2016 V22 Louise House
Valerie de Ghellinck and Nico Duvinage join V22 as artists in residence for the Summer of 2016. Together with local people, they will develop and explore ideas about the community kitchen that is planned for the basement at Louise House for the following year.
For them, cooking is a tool to connect people and the kitchen a space where a continuation of the idea of the social sculpture takes place.
Why are you interested in a community kitchen?
Valerie: I always feel very moved by the strengths and commitments people have in communities. I am also inspired by how people work together, how groups interact with each other. We are curious about what can happen in a space that is dedicated to the space between people. By choosing cooking, an everyday action, we take a primary means of our survival which is embedded in our oldest line of culture, a line of remembrance through generations that effects our daily life through our genes and makes us understand the outside world through the inside digestion of our body.
Nico: While I was studying Photography in Berlin, I was working in an italian restaurant as a cook’s mate where I learned several kitchen techniques and the love for food. The community kitchen is, for me, a space between public and private. Many different ideas can take place here - questions about personal tastes, knowledge, origin, social and cultural backgrounds can be discussed, experienced, observed and shared, and maybe a vision of how we want to live together.
Valerie de Ghellinck (BE) is an artist who explores cooking as an art practice. After studying sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2012, she moved to Berlin. In 2014 she started to work in the kitchen team of the artist and cook Asako Iwama and Lauren Mauer in the studio kitchen of Olafur Eliasson. Learning the process of cooking in a team for larger groups of people inspired her to translate this experience to her art practice as a social sculpture. In 2015 Valerie was invited to think about the eating and cooking context in the Summer School 'Mobile Autonomy' at the Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp, where she was asked to develop ideas for the kitchen at Louise House.
Nico Duvinage (D) is an educator, artist and musician based in Berlin whose work is predominantly video and sound-based. His work is a quest for a greater understanding of himself and the human condition. He graduated in 2011 at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin.
Currently both artists are working in close collaboration. Together they exchange ideas about food, perception, memories and storytelling.
For Summer Club Kitchen Workshop, Valerie and Nico will produce weekly workshops/events: Supper Club and Process Your Own Food.
Anyone under 16 years of age must be accompanied by and adult.
Venue info
V22 Louise House
Dartmouth Road
Forest Hill
London
SE23 3HZ
(Between Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill Library)
Overground: Forest Hill
Bus: 122, 176, 197
