The residency programme KORDON LAB on Food and Energy will conclude with public events on the 19-20 of July. On both days it is possible to get an insight into the research and works by the artists: Aga Pokrywka, Jonas Palekas and Mia Tamme. The works will unfold in various forms: filmic performance, sound performance and a shared dinner – unravelling the hidden stories about women who fish, or in collaboration with local plant species, human voices, and insular soundscapes, asking the question: What is foreign? And a summer school, beginning today, which brings together participants from various backgrounds to delve into a collective practice of experimental and creative cooking.
KORDON LAB on Food and Energy is a one year long cyclical residency curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla and Rasmus Jensen. The residency has followed the variety of seasons, allowing the selected participants to create an in-depth relationship to the north-east context including Hiiumaa island, and its recurrent political reshapings. By inviting residents to map, reflect and transform techniques and knowledge of food in relation to energy – it seeks for a paradigm shift in our perception of making human and other-than-human life possible.
PROGRAMME
19.07. Friday
8pm – filmic performance by MIA TAMME: Võrgu mõrsjad ja vesised mõrrad
20.07. Saturday
7pm – summer school public event by JONAS PALEKAS and the participants: Experimental Cooking
10pm – sound performance by AGA POKRYWKA: They came from beyond
*All events are for free, both in Estonian and English languages, and take place at KORDON (Ranna 1, Kärdla).
AGA POKRYWKA is a Polish-born, Helsinki-based multidisciplinary wizardess. With a background in film, science, and non-fiction storytelling, she works with graphic design, video, sound, and collaborative practices in order to build eclectic narratives. She is interested in re-telling stories and capturing diverse viewpoints through multimedia and non-linear strategies. She is fascinated by how we comprehend the invisible and capture it with our senses, whether it be microbes, celestial bodies, or systemic structures. Aga is currently working, among other things, on Ferment Radio, a podcast series on bacterial and social fermentation, and Super Eclectic, a creative studio on a mission to inspire action on the most critical issues of our time, through multimedia and imagination.
JONAS PALEKAS is a chef and food thinker from Lithuania specialising in performative dinners, experimental food system design, and research on ecological relations and gastronomic phenomenons. Previously he has participated in a residency at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. He is a co-founder of the restaurant Delta Mityba in Vilnius. Jonas participates in artistic projects and events across Europe, including Biennale di Venezia 2017 and 2018, Volcano Extravaganza 2019 in Italy, Kunstverein Amsterdam 2019, and others. With interests in social, cultural, and ecological contexts of nowadays world and with his education in culinary arts, he works across the boundaries of humans’ nutritional habits and raises questions related to food in our uncertain times.
MIA TAMME is a visual researcher, graphic designer & an experimental film-maker based in Tallinn, Estonia. She blends ethnographic research and autofiction to connect with the stories from the periphery. Mia digs in the knowledge of heritage passed down on the grounds of Estonia, and scans how folk objects and tales shape personal, hence, political identities. In her artistic projects she has documented the friction between conservatism and progress in a Western Estonian knitting community that holds a 200-year old lace-making craft; she has probed her own family heritage proposing sailing as a way of rethinking social norms. She has studied visual communication in Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, worked as a design researcher for Strelka Magazine in Moscow, and for Technoflesh Studio in Amsterdam.
