Let's get (meta)physical!

The DOTE Rituals of Change Research Series are experimental theatrical gatherings, proposals in form on colonial structures and belonging in relation to our bodies & habitat.

For this particular encounter called One in the hand Maureen de Jong looks into the ways in which we relate to one another and our surroundings through food, from dish to plant, to soil to seed. You’ll put on an apron, roll up your sleeves and out your tongue. You’ll squeeze the lemon and grind the seed and taste stories and flavours that are part of us.

She invites artist, designer and Agri-ecological Practitioner Michelle Lai, who is currently working on a research project focused on the Talang Mamak indigenous community - oil palm plantation workers in Riaus, Indonesia, to the table and dive along with her.

Hanka from Sarajevo and her son Adnan will guide us through the secrets and movements of making borek, pulling and stretching the sheets of dough and letting gravity do its work for you.

To Maureen the kitchen is a podium and a workspace, in it she builds a bio cultural archive driven by personal culinary history and knowledge. A place where we can deepen relationships with ourselves & our community, a space where we can cook, eat, drink and do good.