Description
Did you know there is a game called Kimchi in which the players have to come up with an ingredient that we CAN’T make Kimchi out of? From vegetables to fruits, Kimchi could be made with virtually anything and the spices and ingredients used for Kimchi vary from region to region, household to household and individual to individual in Korea.
In this workshop, you are cordially invited to make Kimchi and share food with Salwa Foundation and Saranghwae, a fluid art collective from South Korea. All ingredients – cabbages, gochujang (pepper paste) from Seoul, gochugaru from Gwangju, sesame oil, etc - will be prepared beforehand. Saranghwae will share recipes from home and after making Kimchi, we’ll hold a Kimchi Pairing Contest. An eye-opening award will be given to the participant who brings what could be paired best with Kimchi – be that beverage, food, music, dance moves or stories.
Kim-Jang (Kimchi Making in Korean) is a tradition that involves the whole family, and even the whole town at times. This collective practice is not only a seasonal affair to prepare for the long harsh winter altogether after the fall harvest but also an opportunity for bonding and strengthening within communities through making and sharing food. In the spirit of this tradition, we hope to connect with people and care for nature. Through this workshop, we aim to reflect on fermentation and how it could expand the horizon of our ecosystem and beyond from our table, as a strategy for survival and co-existing in today’s capitalist-driven food chain.
Please bring :
1. A Jar/Tupperware for taking Kimchi you made
2. Your Booze!
3. (If you are up for the contest), a small cuisine that you think could be paired best with Kimchi
We look forward to greeting you soon!
*This workshop is part of the art collective Saranghwae’s research project Being as Praxis, in which Saranghwae delves into fermentation as a practice to perceive both sensible and insensible and to reposition humans as planetary beings in coexistence and symbiotic relationship with our ecosystem.
**This project is supported by Art Council Korea and International Partnership in Support of Arts Creation and DutchCulture.
P.S. Money should never be in the way of your attendance, if you cannot afford a ticket please email hello@salwa.nl
For general Inquiries: saranghwae.archive@gmail.com or hello@salwa.nl
About Saranghwae and its Members
Saranghwae is a fluid art collective of artists, a curator, and a producer that engages in active exchanges between creators in the field of art, science, and technology. This year, all members of Saranghwae came together for the collaborative project Being as Praxis, to free their practices from pre-existing systems, genres, or forms of audiovisual results. Taking place between Seoul and Amsterdam, Saranghwae wishes to rediscover techne with the local communities, not as a set of devices or strategies but as an innovative tool for understanding cosmo-technic diversity and inclusivity.
Sunjeong Hwang is a multidisciplinary artist who in recent years, has been researching the network system of mushrooms (fungi), ecology, metabolism and its symbiotic relationship that contains thoughts about Earth-human metabolism in the current geological era. She conjoins biological matter and digital media through contriving an interface for humans and non-humans, collecting multisensorial signals and sonifying the data received. Sunjeong seeks new forms of communication and connectivity within human-nature-technology through actively experimenting with the organic structures embedded in algorithmic computing and modalities of cosmic beings including but not limited to plants and cells.
www.hwangsunjeong.com
Junsoo Kim is a kinetic artist currently based in Seoul. He studied Visual Design and Sculpture and graduated with a master’s from the Media Art & Technology, Kookmin University (Korea). Inspired by self-healing skin diseases and conditions, he is driven by the urge to transduce a wide variety of phenomena into a tangible substance that is solidified to fixate reality, rather than evaporating into the atmosphere. Junsoo mainly works with the materiality of the object, specifically using metal and presents installation work that is based on modular and numerical congruence.
So Young Lee is a Seoul-based producer who has managed numerous multi-media projects with a diverse background of artists working with art, science and technology. She has delivered artworks in the UK, Germany, Japan, States, China, and more. With a background in French Language and Literature, her production ranges from a cross-genre play, film and performance to interactive installation, poetically weaving philosophical reflections of the contemporary East Asian woman. So Young is interested in developing a hub in which the definition of labour could be reimagined through interdisciplinary research and projects from which spontaneous interaction sparks.
Suhun Lee is an interdisciplinary researcher and curator connecting nodes within the digital humanities field. Her research interests include new media, digital objects and beings, nonlinear narratives, algorithmic identities, critical race studies, gender politics and visual culture. As a structuralist in a constant flux of constructing and deconstructing narratives in forms of texts, performances and exhibitions, Suhun walks between the boundaries of institutionalised spectacles and marginalised subjectivities. Currently working at Art Center Nabi, her curatorial focus revolves around planetary thinking and consciousness, Eastern philosophies and media aesthetics.
Gyuchul Moon is a multidisciplinary new media artist. With a background in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Moon perceives sound as an animate being with vitality and an agency to penetrate and subvert the systems and structures. Bolstering aesthetic possibilities of unseen and unheard, Gyuchul attempts to redefine humanity through reconstituting and reconfiguring existing uses of technologies. He is currently in collaboration with the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, collecting sounds from electronic devices and electromagnetic fields with technological motility, ultimately weaving them out in forms of audiovisuals, sound performances and installation works.
Mint Park is a sound, and new media artist who works at an intersection of music, technology, science, and art. She researches the phenomenon of turbulence and makes a weather-like ecosystem of fluid dynamics with sound, air, and lights. Her audio-visual practice focuses on the experience of the inter-weaving physical environment and virtual spaces with immersive sound, light, and spatial apparatuses. By making spatial sound performances and installations she explores the constantly fluctuating existential qualities in today’s binary space and machine-quantified time.