CONCEPT
Concept (pdf) The table and the mutual meal in art recipes from the transcultural
cuisine Concept and project direction Vienna: Caroline Fekete-Kaiser Project direction Tokyo: Hiroko Inoue “Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today” Wolfgang Welsch Transculturality - recognizing the
foreign components,
of differing cultural origin, in us
Food: artistic media
Table: image-carrier, design object and basic symbol
for communication, sharing of meals, time and emotions
Recipe 1: Table landscape transcultural
Recipe 2: Fire Table
Recipe 3: Table
fellowships Transcultural Eat Art as a cookbook and ebook An art project grounded on the occasion of the Austria-Japan-Year 2009. In an
interdisciplinary approach the focus is directed on Eat-Art and Design. The table, especially the dining table or the guest table, serves herewith as metaphor,
social allegory and central creative element. The underlying concept in the encounters between Austria and Japan is here the one of transculturality based on the
article of the philosopher Wolfgang Welsch “Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today”. Whereas the traditional concept of single
cultures, envisages cultures as closed spheres or autonomous islands, which in best case can exist next to each other in a separatist way, the concept of
transculturality emphasizes interconnectedness, cultural entanglement, the heterogeneous and hybrid identity. While also the concepts of interculturality and
multiculturality derive from the homogenizing exclusive idea of cultures, transculturality is based on inclusiveness, albeit differing from global
uniformization. Eat-Art as artistic expression enables the sensual perception of complex transcultural processes. The table and the mutual meal offer as
stylistic device a plenitude of creative opportunities to express forms of unity. The table is the place for communication, sharing of food, time and emotions.
Transcultural Eat-Art foresees a serial of events in Vienna and Tokyo, from May to November 2009, created by artists, designers, cultural actors and architects who
live in Austria and Japan. All events will in different ways tackle the social and communicative aspects of sharing a table for a meal, the interplay of identities
and metamorphosis. The projet participants from Austria and Japan will by means of exchange and interaction explore similarities, differences and overlappings.
The project is structured in three components which are compiled as recipe-collections 1 - 3 in an ebook, the “Cookbook Transcultural”:
- Table landscape transcultural
- The Fire-Table
- Table fellowships
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