GEMAAL OP ZUID21 sep 2024, LLL #3 , Love, Labour, Liberate!
LLL#3 Out of Blue Dinner by Homesick Restaurant
We would like to invite you to the opening of Homesick Restaurant’s solo exhibition at Gemaal op Zuid in Rotterdam. On the 21st of September at 16:00 we hope to have you join us over a warm meal cooked by the Wijkkeuken van Zuid and a DJ set by DJ Katie.
The exhibition Out of Blue Dinner explores power dynamics within host-migrant relationships through food culture and materially through ceramics. The result is an immersive exhibition created with traditional Dutch tea towels dominating the scene which depicts various set ups of ceramic tableware. The exhibition takes place as part of the exhibition series Love, Labour, Liberate, curated by Yusser al Obaidi & Leana Boven.
Event Details:
The exhibition will be activated through a series of experimental dinners in which Homesick Restaurant becomes a host for a series of hosts. Hospitality and hosting become a tactic of subversion, a means for a different kind of spontaneous relationship building which – as Homesick Restaurant prompts – we are often alienated from in the Dutch dominant dining context. As highlighted in the title Out of Blue Dinner, the unexpected and impromptu nature of the dining experience in Asian culture serves as an inspiration and is contrasted to this dominance. What happens to some of the most vital characteristics of (Asian) food culture within the Dutch dominant landscape? The exhibition plays with the expectation of cultural assimilation enforced by Dutch policy. All the while, serving as a space of kinship for the homesick.
The exhibition Out of Blue Dinner explores power dynamics within host-migrant relationships through food culture and materially through ceramics. The result is an immersive exhibition created with traditional Dutch tea towels dominating the scene which depicts various set ups of ceramic tableware. The exhibition takes place as part of the exhibition series Love, Labour, Liberate, curated by Yusser al Obaidi & Leana Boven.
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, September 21st
Time: 16:00 - 19:00
Location: Gemaal op Zuid, Pretorialaan 141, 3072 EL Rotterdam
Dinner cooked by the Wijkkeuken van Zuid (Free)
The exhibition will be activated through a series of experimental dinners in which Homesick Restaurant becomes a host for a series of hosts. Hospitality and hosting become a tactic of subversion, a means for a different kind of spontaneous relationship building which – as Homesick Restaurant prompts – we are often alienated from in the Dutch dominant dining context. As highlighted in the title Out of Blue Dinner, the unexpected and impromptu nature of the dining experience in Asian culture serves as an inspiration and is contrasted to this dominance. What happens to some of the most vital characteristics of (Asian) food culture within the Dutch dominant landscape? The exhibition plays with the expectation of cultural assimilation enforced by Dutch policy. All the while, serving as a space of kinship for the homesick.
