TasteTest Rehearsal: Foodcasting

MAPPING MUKBANG | 3.30pm – 5pm

This hands-on workshop examines sentiments regarding the Mukbang. We’ll focus on how eating online has taken shape by making collective collages, dissecting videos, and mapping with sticky notes and tape. No prior knowledge needed — an appetite for exploration encouraged. Hosted by Tulika Ahuja.

Food as cast/crew, Eating the mould, I desire your Mukbang

TASTY: A Performance Experimentation | 5pm – 6pm

Get up close, swipe, and be seated in the splash zone as we search for food together through a broken black mirror. Some edible treats will bubble during the performance, so expect to get fed — but maybe not satiated! Hosted by Dawn Lim and created in collaboration with Kristen Oliveiro.

How do you salivate through the glass of the screen?

Dawn Lim is an ethnographer with a writing and performance art practice, who cares about the bonds between human and non-human. They are sensitive to the movements of matter, from metabolic rifts of soil nutrients through the globalised food industry, to the localised labour of salvaging, hoarding and throwing. Interested in sifting alternate narratives through the flurry of today’s algorithmic and surveilled world, they oscillate between collaboration and introspection to discover the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. Dawn believes in the affect of pluralising narratives and embodied resistance for a more liveable world.

Tulika Ahuja is an independent curator and writer exploring the absurdities of contemporary social conditioning through exhibition-making and approachable art encounters. Her process is informed by collaboration, research, experimentation and a non-disciplinary approach that prioritises ideas over traditional academic boundaries. She leads projects at Mama Magnet and spends her free time practicing ceramic hand-building and yoga.