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Invitation to the roundtable at community kitchen De Sering. Writing a set of questions on the table "cloths". Collective reading practice hosted by Tabili, with activist banners in the background. Screening of video work by Ann-Marie Gehrig. Notes taken during the evening's programme. Notes, drawings, food stains, and ginger tea. Notes, drawings, and questions. Reader accompanying the roundtable. Playing with the idea that "host" and "guest" share the same etymological root and have reciprocal duties of hospitality. "Mise en place" style collective writing session. Duration: 10 minutes. "Potluck theory", the result of a collective process of thinking, researching, and writing together.
How do the food we consume and the shape of the table we gather around inform what and how we come to know? How do they affect our social relations and society at large? And in what ways can food and eating together be the motor for the production of “other knowledges” and, ultimately, for change?

To think along these questions with us, we invited people with various artistic and/or social practices centred around food to gather around the table and share a meal.

︎ Co-organisers: Elisabetha Engel, Iva Micanovic, Eleni Pantelaras, Rebecca Russo, Julia Stoll, Josefina Sundblad, Giorgos Tsiongas, Elaine Zuo.
︎ Hosted at De Sering, Amsterdam.
︎ Other hosts and guests: Tabili, Ann-Sophie Gehrig.