Cooking
Research class by Charlotte Koopman and guests
The vantage point of the research will be the kitchen and the larder from where the participants will be providing a daily lunch for all master students, plus the odd unexpected guest.
There will be no time for rehearsal, we will be winging it. “Winging it” should not be mistaken for a lack of effort. It is, ideally, a state of mind in which one is fully present and engaged, with a sense of respect for the natural rhythms and flow of life. Instead of aiming at control, the situation is handled with intuition and improvisation, with a foundation of previous practise and experience.
This week, the direction taken will be a result of the skills and appetites of our formation.
This session does not include doing the after lunch dishes.
Charlotte Koopman
Charlotte Koopman founded, together with Hadas Cna’ani, in 2009 a kitchen-collective named Otark. Otark cooks in various contexts and with varying line-ups responding to film, sound, words, the weather. Otark has a strong preference for Handwork / Close-ups (the near) / Off-beat (the far-out) / Slow-mo / Slapstick / Roots and Leaves and works according to the vershki i koreshki principle: foundation versus the way the wind blows, home-cooking on the move, and- as cooks do- works within a framework of a timeline, rhythm, repetition, seasonality and impermanence.
charlottekoopman@icloud.com
(Image: research class by Charlotte Koopman, 2023, photo by Wannes Cré)
>> This research class is part of the Research Week during the annual research festival ARTICULATE.
