FRArt Koujina, Subalterns' Cuisine : an experimental and collaborative artistic research on food, cookery and colonization
- is created by Ichraf Nasri
1. Koujina, Subalterns' Cuisine: introduction
- is cited by Oula de semoule de couscous, Tunis, novembre 2023
- is cited by Dîner par Rafram Chadad, 2023, faisant partie de l'exposition "The Good Seven Years" à la galerie B7L9 à Tunis
- is cited by Cuisine troglodyte à Matmata, dans le sud de la Tunisie, novembre 2023
- is cited by Olive harvest meal in Henchir Lksour, my grandfather's homeland in northern Tunisia, October 2023
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Article
- ref: DOC.2023.87
- tags: coloniality of knowledge, post-colonial context, food, cooking, feminism, subalterns, lacks and deprivations, food shortage, ecology, subsistence, auto-ethnographic
Koujina, Subalterns' Cuisine : approaches the coloniality of knowledge through the lens of food in
Tunisia, through a series of discussions between the artist and women from working-class backgrounds.
These meetings will take place during collaborative cooking workshops following a clearly established protocol of knowledge exchange. Together, we will analyze through practice how traditional dishes have adapted; we will invent alternative presents for vanished dishes; we will address the lacks and deprivations ; we will contemplate culinary gestures and techniques, as well as the spaces and rhythms of post-colonial conviviality in a living research process. In this process, food is both the object of research, a communication tool, and the artistic medium. Our hypothesis: culinary traditions are practices of resistance.
Three research axes will guide the inquiry: To what extent does colonization continue to impact the intimate and daily experience of food? How do women reclaim spaces of commensality and conviviality in the post-colonial context? What can the subjectivity and practice of the artist contribute to an ethnographic approach? My personal experience will be the starting point, not only because I come from the studied terrain but also because the goal is to place affect at the center of research. The aim is to move away from Euro-centric epistemological frameworks by giving credence to other ontologies. The discussions will not be recorded but transcribed afterward to mobilize emotional memory as a valid research tool. The material
collected during the research will then be shared in Belgium with individuals from various diasporas of former colonies in a comparative study. Finally, it will become an auto-ethnographic narrative.
2. Skins (Tunisia)
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Image
- ref: DOC.2023.89
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3. Grandmother (Tunisia)
- has as contributor Ichraf Nasri
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- ref: DOC.2023.90
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4. Oula of couscous semolina, Tunis, November 2023
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Image
- ref: DOC.2024.5
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- Oula of couscous semolina, Tunis, November 2023
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5. Dinner by Rafram Chadad, 2023, part of the exhibition "The Good Seven Years" at gallery B7L9 in Tunis
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Image
- ref: DOC.2024.6
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- Dinner by Rafram Chadad, 2023, part of the exhibition "The Good Seven Years" at gallery B7L9 in Tunis
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6. Troglodyte kitchen in Matmata, southern Tunisia, November 2023
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Image
- ref: DOC.2024.7
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- Troglodyte kitchen in Matmata, southern Tunisia, November 2023 ; photo crédit: Ichraf Nasri
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7. Olive harvest meal in Henchir Lksour, my grandfather's homeland in northern Tunisia, October 2023
- has as creator Ichraf Nasri
- type: Image
- ref: DOC.2024.8
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- Olive harvest meal in Henchir Lksour, my grandfather's homeland in northern Tunisia, October 2023; photo credit: Ichraf Nasri
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