Hiwa K, Cooking with Mama, 2021, Performance in the context of steirischer herbst ’21, Photo: Clara Wildberger
Sat, 7.12.2024, 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Alima Ouedraogo & Michael Kress
at Hyper Cultural Passengers (HyCP), Veddel
Participation is free
Please register in advance until 2.12. via mail to: register@kunsthaushamburg.de
Hiwa K’s art is explicitly aimed at generating a broad social response and thereby bringing about real change. For his performance series Cooking with Mama, the artist invites people with a history of migration to call good friends and relatives and to cook their favourite dishes in front of an audience and then share a meal together. To this end, he has developed a street kitchen bike inspired by food stands in Iraq and Syria. The shared culinary experience creates encounters capable of prompting dialogue and, by sharing the recipes, extending beyond the performance period itself.
In the context of the exhibition project Politics of Love, Hiwa K’s mobile kitchen will travel to three public cultural venues in different parts of Hamburg over the course of the exhibition, where it will be used to engage with the local communities, thus expanding the exhibition into the urban space.
The first Cooking with Mama event in Hamburg will take place at the HyCP – Hyper Cultural Passengers project space on the Veddel, where Alima Ouedraogo from the Boudyelee association, which supports children and young people in Burkina Faso, will be cooking Tigaidigaina – chicken and vegetables in a peanut butter sauce with rice – as well as a vegetarian version of the dish with the support of HyCP member Michael Kress.
The project is kindly supported by the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS as part of the #seeyouagain initiative.
