Transspeciess Kitchen

Transspeciess Kitchen is constructed out of recycled pieces of marble discharged by the stone extraction industry. It is carved with forms that are engineered to facilitate the collection, fermentation, and ingestion of leaves, earth, fungi, and other living components from the ecosystems close to the kitchen. Events activating the kitchen are curated as collective digestions where more-than-human forms of life collaborate to co-produce, negotiate coexistence, and experience how to sense each other. Lagoonphagia is an opportunity to both experience and claim the fact that bodies are not zipped up entities, but are instead ecological compositions. Considering how humans are dependent on ecosystems, eating the Lagoon is the process of eating oneself as much as it is eating others. These performances convene experts of the Lagoon’s ecologies and edibilities alongside architectural thinkers to acknowledge the implications and potentials of operating through transspecies alliances in the paradigm of ecology.