Food Untold

What does food mean to us

How does our culinary past reflect our values, culture, and permeate the way we are? When does food act as a conduit for lasting changes and cultural awareness? What is the role of food in producing identities and notions of alterity within a shared space?

What we will bring for DDW24

By telling stories that epitomise the regional culinary culture, the project aims to invite non-EU artists in Eindhoven to prepare personal recipes from their hometown and serve the dish to the public. During the DDW 2024, we will be positioned on the Stationsplein in the form of a street food stall. Along with the food served, invited artists will present their stories through a various forms of narratives. We encourage individual artists to share their intimate and sparkling memories of food hidden beneath the stereotypical culinary grand narrative. By zooming in on individual stories and zooming out on ubiquitous regional identity, we are able to glimpse how cultural significance is embedded in design through the lens of food, and understand how what we put on our plates functions as a tool of narrative.

What we hope to sparkle

The food stall itself provides an affable venue to encourage further communication with our audience: stories for stories. By empowering the immigrants and allowing them to tell their culinary stories, food is enabled to transcend cultural boundaries, revealing a corner of the 'self-representation' of the non-EU community.