Thanksgiving in Tin Wan
You are invited to a dinner performance entitled Thanksgiving in Tin Wan, on Saturday, 8th October 2016 at 7pm. I would like to invite guests to the home of Mur Nomade in Tin Wan neighbourhood, on the South side of Hong Kong island, to this dinner event coinciding with Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
Through cooking, waiting, watching, sharing and dining, the performance will be a sensory and social experience offering a reflection on hybrid cultures. In my practice, I draw inspiration from my relationship with the everyday domestic activities and social encounters in the culturally complex contemporary world we live in.
I will attempt to prepare and recreate a home cooked meal for thirty guests. In honour of the labour and hard work we embody and put ourselves through to get by everyday, this western inspired thanksgiving dinner, for no religious reasons, is merely a celebration of ourselves, one another and the other living crops around the region including chestnut, sweet potato, lotus root, all roasted with garlic and some spices. It will also serve other homemade Chinese dishes that my grandparents made, turkey from the North American culture, as well as pumpkin pie for dessert.
Through the performance of putting together this culturally mashed meal, the aroma of the fusion food triggers sensory relations and plays on anticipation, memory and expectation. It is my hope to bring attention to the subtle host / guest relationship and invisible domestic labour that goes into production.
The performance will start at 7pm and last for 1 hour. Guests are expected to arrive on time with an empty stomach. Please feel free to bring a bottle of your choice.
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Review written by Henrietta Wilson, ArtAsiaPacific
You are invited to a dinner performance entitled Thanksgiving in Tin Wan, on Saturday, 8th October 2016 at 7pm. I would like to invite guests to the home of Mur Nomade in Tin Wan neighbourhood, on the South side of Hong Kong island, to this dinner event coinciding with Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
Through cooking, waiting, watching, sharing and dining, the performance will be a sensory and social experience offering a reflection on hybrid cultures. In my practice, I draw inspiration from my relationship with the everyday domestic activities and social encounters in the culturally complex contemporary world we live in.
I will attempt to prepare and recreate a home cooked meal for thirty guests. In honour of the labour and hard work we embody and put ourselves through to get by everyday, this western inspired thanksgiving dinner, for no religious reasons, is merely a celebration of ourselves, one another and the other living crops around the region including chestnut, sweet potato, lotus root, all roasted with garlic and some spices. It will also serve other homemade Chinese dishes that my grandparents made, turkey from the North American culture, as well as pumpkin pie for dessert.
Through the performance of putting together this culturally mashed meal, the aroma of the fusion food triggers sensory relations and plays on anticipation, memory and expectation. It is my hope to bring attention to the subtle host / guest relationship and invisible domestic labour that goes into production.
The performance will start at 7pm and last for 1 hour. Guests are expected to arrive on time with an empty stomach. Please feel free to bring a bottle of your choice.
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Review written by Henrietta Wilson, ArtAsiaPacific