Eat Your Feelings x Fajne x Psychoclub

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲❜𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 - 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 

This dinner invited participants to explore their food habits, bringing to their attention topics harder to swallow in a humorous and playful way. Food rationing during communism was restrictive but led to “creative” solutions that transgressed the limit of “eating just for fuel”. With limited access to products, people often resort to inventive methods to put food on the table. So I invited our guests to play along, make exchanges, collaborate and question the way we eat now. Each course was inspired by a staple dish from a post-communist country of personal significance. For this dinner, I collaborated with 𝘍𝘢𝘫𝘯𝘦 - an initiative to bring Polish cuisine and all things around the table to Rotterdam, merging with a fitting Chinese starter by artist & collaborator 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘠𝘶, and a Romanian Funeral dessert. 

The dinner was accompanied by a screening that contextualized the food exchanges. The movie, 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵) I 𝘥𝘪𝘳. 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰 𝘏𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘙𝘢̆𝘻𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘢̆𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘶, 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘶. was a multi-episode collection of vignettes comically unseating the propagandist myth that Ceaușescu's Romania was the “golden age” of communism, by focusing on day-to-day life under the dictatorship to warm and often hilarious effect that could well stir up strong nostalgia and bewilderment in all the post-communist nations. 

The music that followed the screening was carefully curated by Psycho Club and helped take us deeper into this experience.

Music
Chirty
Mia

S/lash Gallery, Worm Rotterdam

Photos: Leroy Verbeet