Cooking in Circles

Next Friday I am delighted to be participating in the International Symposium: Circularity at Seoul National University’s Institute for Culture and Arts. The symposium’s second track considers “Socio-Ecosystems of the Future” and will be introduced by Jihoi Lee (curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) and moderated by Professor Hong-jung Kim (SNU).

In the inspiring company of Soik Jung (co-artistic director of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2023) and In-ah Shin (co-organizer of Feminist Designer Social Club), my talk will consider the symposium’s theme through a culinary lens.

How do we relate to the environment through the foods we eat and the stories we season them with? In Cooking in Circles I will survey the relationship between eating and ecology. My lecture collects examples of cooking as a collaborative cultural practice that reveals connections and proposes alternatives for being in relation with the flora and fauna different culinary traditions call food. Taken together, this collection narrates how materials, flavours, and ideas circulate from one context to another, how they mingle, merge, and melt into each other, and how cuisines relate to climate, how appetites shape futures.

Find out more about the program and the other tracks, and register here. The event will also be live streamed.