FLAVORS & CONVERSATIONS: How Food Feeds Art
MAKAN KEBIJAKAN - Performative Food Preparation
What happens when food meets art? Recorded live during MAKAN KEBIJAKAN, a workshop and performance by Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF) at the SWAB Art Fair, this conversation reveals how shared meals spark stories, connections, and unexpected collaborations, starting with a simple welcome dinner at an art residency and blossoming into a cycle of eating, talking, and creating together. In this performative session, artists, activists, policy-makers, gallerists, and other participants act as “policy makers,” collectively designing a free-lunch program for students while exploring questions of community, care, and the role of art in everyday life.
From potlucks to Sunday traditions, communal food becomes a global language that transforms ordinary spaces into vibrant hubs of exchange. The discussion also takes us across cities, Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Jakarta, Barcelona, exploring how street food shapes the rhythm of urban life. In Southeast Asia, night markets pulse with life, vendors rotate menus, and homemade dishes flow freely, while European cities impose structure and regulation, limiting spontaneity.
This is more than a conversation about food: it’s about connection, culture, and the living, breathing ways that meals shape our days and our art.
