EAT
EAT invites you to disrupt your morning ritual and try a new approach to spending time where every minute, and even second, counts. Vocalist Claire Adams will perform a five-course vocal composition paired with unique flavors on board a former refugee boat moving through the canals of Amsterdam.
EAT is a performance series initiated in 2023 by Tomoko Mukaiyama. It explores the rituals of morning practices and the subtle interplay between cultural habits and natural forces that shape them.
Each edition of EAT delves into the material and sensory dimensions of our daily beginnings. For this iteration, we welcome food artist Asli Hatipoğlu and vocalist Claire Adams on board the Alhadj Djumaa — an Egyptian fishing boat that crossed the Mediterranean on July 25, 2013, carrying 282 refugees before being seized by the Italian coast guard. Today it sails Amsterdam's canals with Rederij Lampedusa. Physically taking place within the historic canals of Amsterdam, this breakfast experience centers around water as a vital element that connects all things. It asks participants to reflect on water's constant flow, its shifting presence, and the way it mirrors the realities of climate migration.
Over the course of a 50-minute journey, the meal becomes a collective ritual, a meditation, and a shared moment. EAT unfolds as a multi-course performance featuring ingredients, fermentations, and plants that trace the history of trade and the Dutch relationship with spices. Accompanied by live vocal compositions from early female creators, the narrative combines storytelling and music to highlight the shared humanness within our diverse stories. A meditative gateway into the day, EAT invites us to tune into the body, to sound, to taste, and to the fluid landscapes we inhabit
About the Artists
Aslı Hatipoğlu is a textile culinary artist who's interdisciplinary social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics are changing our relationship to food. From working with micro-scale bacteria and yeasts to insects such as the domesticated silkworm, Hatipoğlu critically investigates ways of relating to our environment and ourselves. She researches production supply chains through performative acts to shed light to how humans influence other living organisms.
Asli Cooking for the Neo Futurist Dinner 17.05.24 - Knots, Weeds, Roots Vu Ha
With: Aslı HatipoğluClaire Adams is a Spanish-Dutch soprano, violinist and interdisciplinary maker whose work unfolds at the intersection of experimental music, performance and sonic storytelling. Blending voice and violin into layered, immersive sound worlds, she explores the porous boundaries between contemporary music, conceptual art-song and performative practice. Through intimate yet exploratory sonic languages, Claire creates spaces for reflection, seeking moments of stillness and emotional depth within increasingly fast-paced and fragmented societies.
Tomoko Mukaiyama is a Dutch-Japanese pianist, visual artist and director based in Amsterdam. In 1991 she was the first Japanese pianist to win the prestigious Dutch Gaudeamus competition and in 1993 she won the Muramatsu Prize in Japan, which is awarded to an outstanding musician. She has been engaged by many prestigious orchestras and ensembles throughout the world, like the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the London Sinfonietta and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among many others. Tomoko pushes on the boundaries of the classical music world; she has a fascination for offbeat contemporary art projects and plays with the conventions around her instrument, her profession and its performance. Tomoko uses her experience as a concert pianist to bring new dimensions to the concert space – as a multi-modal artist she develops performing arts projects and art installations that combine music with modern dance, fashion and visual art.
Portrait Tomoko Mukaiyama - Photographer: Yayoi Arimoto
Music Program (TBA)
Menu (TBA)
*All the dishes are vegan.
Tickets are now available
Performances run from July 10th to 19th. Choose your preferred time:
- Morning Session: 9:00 AM
- Late Morning Session (Weekends Only): 11:00 AM
Date and Time
10 (FRI) 09:00-10:00
11 (SAT) 09:00-10:00 & 11:00-12:00
12 (SUN) 09:00-10:00 & 11:00-12:00
14 (TUE) 09:00-10:00
15 (WED) 09:00-10:00
16 (THU) 09:00-10:00
17 (FRI) 09:00-10:00
18 (SAT) 09:00-10:00 & 11:00-12:00
19 (SUN) 09:00-10:00 & 11:00-12:00
- Early Bird: €25 (Available until the 19th of June at 23:30)
- Full Price: €30
- Artist/Student: €18
Questions? Feel free to reach out to: program@mediamatic.nl
Credits
Concept: Tomoko Mukaiyama
Culinary Artist: Asli Hatipoğlu
Vocalist: Claire Adams
Project Manager: Laura Rosal
Project Manager: Rederij Lampedusa
Producer: Kalina Efremova
Production Intern: Braidon Hobzek
Graphic Deisgn: Lisa Schiemann
Communication: Skaiste Venckeviciute
Production: Mediamatic, Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation
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