Friday at 3pm we’ll dine
Daniel Sigge & Emily Cadotte (Art History & Creative Writing)
English/Deutsch, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS,
Beginn: Montag, 6.1.2025, 10 Uhr

Registration on Moodle starts 2.12.2024 / Anmeldung auf Moodle beginnt am 2.12.2024:
https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=2593
Moodle Enrollment Key / Einschreibeschlüssel: dining

The recipe is a bizarre form–an instruction manual that’s somewhere between verse, prose, and shopping list. It can be authoritative or suggestive, open to adaptation yet always pronouncing its author. In this course, we analyze the world through the medium of cooking recipes. We will compile a cookbook of “dishes” that have never been made—conceptual recipes that hybridize cultural approaches to food, that invite conflicting elements, or that expand and dismantle the idea of the recipe altogether.

Each day will begin with an art historical prompt–considering the ways artists have incorporated recipes, cooking, or the act of sharing a meal into their practice to explore the politics of identity and community. From Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, to Rirkrit Tiravanija’s many participatory dining experiences, cooking and recipes represent deeply personal expressions tied to individual and collective identities. We will also do a short in–class reading followed by a discussion to set the day’s thematic tone, snacks are welcome!

By day five, we will have compiled a set of untested recipes. Presentations on day five will involve attempting to execute these recipes, whether through performance, actual cooking, or another creative process.

• Day 1: What exactly is a recipe?
• Day 2: Semiotics of the kitchen
• Day 3: The dinner party, or social recipes
• Day 4: Writing a dish (or a speculative community) into existence
• Day 5: Test Kitchen (presentations)

Daniel Sigge ist Kulturwissenschaftler und arbeitete in den letzten zehn Jahren für globale Content Plattformen, zuletzt Reddit, TikTok und YouTube. Aktuell ist er Head of Platform Strategy bei SongPush und Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Hildesheim und der Universität der Künste Berlin.
Emily Cadotte is pursuing doctoral studies through the University of Western Ontario while teaching abroad at Aix-Marseille Université. She has worked at C Magazine, Blackwood Gallery, and the Thames Art Gallery, taught at OCAD U & Brock U, and edited the last two volumes of her dept’s graduate journal. She holds an MA from OCAD University where she received the President’s Graduate Award for her MA work. She has published in PUBLIC, Art Education, Canadian Art, Esse & presented at national art history conferences.