Cooking Silent: Postcolonial Affairs of Food and Memory
Snow Haung
Performance: 1 Sep 2018, Saturday 16:00
Venue: Vernacular Institute (Benjamin Franklin 50, Casa C, Escandón, Mexico City, MX 11800)
Can postcolonial geographies be re-materialised by the senses of food, sounds and poems? Can affairs of food and memory perform Myth and Meaning?
A close encounter with individual and collective memories, historical narratives and literary references, Cooking Silent: Postcolonial Affairs of Food and Memory brings together the sense of smelling, tasting, listening with reading to compose a impromptu spatial-material sound theatre. Through the process of food preparation with noise collection and production, it deconstructs the actual to propose an imaginary narrative and ritual notation. How such fluid tensions make history perishable runs beneath Cooking Silent, a method to read a postcolonial affair.
Cooking Silent: Postcolonial Affairs of Food and Memory is initiated by Snow Huang, the director and founder of Against-Again Troupe(TW), in collaboration with Darinko Chimal and Kit Hammonds.
沈默烹飪：食物與記憶的後殖民事務
黃思農
行為演出：2018.09.01（六）4pm
地點：Vernacular Institute（Benjamin Franklin 50, Casa C, Escandón, Mexico City, MX 11800）
後殖民的地理空間能不能藉由感官，食物，聲音，詩句來具象化地重現呢？對於食物和記憶的愛戀能否表現神話或者意義？
一場與歷史性敘事和文學名著，個人和集體記憶間的邂逅。「沈默烹飪：食物與記憶的後殖民事務」將嗅覺，味覺，聽覺與閱讀重組成一個隨機的，具空間感的聲音劇場。在食物準備過程中收集與製作各種噪音，解構現實，進而提出一個想像敘事及帶有儀式性的符碼。
流動的張力讓歷史安息貫穿著「沈默烹飪」，一個閱讀後殖民事務的新方法。
「沈默烹飪：食物與記憶的後殖民事務」由 Against-Again Troupe(TW) 的創始者與領導人黃思農發起，與 Darinko Chimal，Kit Hammonds 共同合作。
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