14/10/2022
18.30 – 20.00
The Grey Space, The Hague
More info and tickets HERE

Artist Cemre Kara and sensory food designer Laila Snevele prepares an interactive food performance shaped as a four-course dinner with experimental tableware, as part of the [Dis]Comfort Food series.

For creating [Dis]Comfort Food, which is an outcome of an iii residency project in The Hague, Cemre Kara works with her team consisting of chef Emre Özakat, Laila Snevele and Maja Akdemir. The project focuses on the role of the body in the act of eating: turning dinner into a playful act. As such, [Dis]Comfort Food is to be enjoyed both as a performance and as a dinner, where visitors are invited to experience dining with inconvenient tools.

“Don’t play with your food!” is just one of the things your parents might have told you, but we want you to do just that. We want to explore the role of the body in the act of eating; turning your dinner into a playful act. Have you noticed how a slightly bent fork or spoon can distract you from your mindless meal? How disturbing and new it seems at the beginning until you get used to the slight change. We want to recognize the discomfort of learning and find comfort in it. When our movements are free from the table’s limitations, we can observe how the body and mind behave in the act of learning.” – Cemre Kara