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Eat | Tech | Kitchen cooking show
— 5 October 2019
La cucina futurista (Futurist Cookbook), published in 1932 by the Italian poet Filippo Marinetti, was a manifesto in the guise of a culinary publication. The book was full of absurd recipes to connect our food habits to sensory storytelling. The futurists visualized a hightech future dominated by motorized speed. We now live in the technological society the futurists were striving for, but it’s quite different from what they imagined.
Interactive artists Emilie Baltz and Klasien van de Zandschulp decided to breathe new life into futuristic cooking. EAT | TECH | KITCHEN reimagines the Futurist Cookbook into 21st Century interactive experiences. Led by two futurist chefs, participants are instructed how to work together to co-create Eat | Tech | Kitchen recipes. In doing so, they playfully experience a new, critical narrative unto our everyday technology consumption. The absurdity of actions herein provokes us to rethink our everyday and, in doing so, subsequently promotes thoughtful self actualisation, as well as delightful human contact IRL.