The cook and the cooker

Performance Cooking show; Radio Art Show; Künstlerhaus 1050, Vienna
With Valentin Fiala, Severin Fiala, Mirko Nelle, Lisa Weber; 2019

The Cook and the Cooker: ‚Super mit 600 Watt!‘ trifft auf ‚Kulinarik in der Versenkung‘ was a cooking performance at the Künstlerhaus 1050 in Vienna. Taking its form from popular formats of cooking duels, the performance centres not the cooks and their skills but the cooking technologies and their promises. The duel of two kitchen technologies - 4 microwaves meet one Sous-Vide stick - initiates a critical reflection about the logics of production and consumption in our daily food routines. The two collectives of the show duel are imperturbably convinced of their technologies and their promises: on the one side microwaves cooking a 4-course dinner of velocity, on the other side sous-vide and the slow and exact indulgence of an one-hour egg. The technology and devices of food routines are thereby not ‚innocent‘: The over-affirmation turns the promises of the devices into absurdity revealing the logics behind the technologies and provoking a reflection about the structures of food systems and cooking technologies. The performance was also recorded and re-worked into a radio art show.

Radio Show