Hot Chocolate
One of the biggest mysteries of fermentation is the flavour of cocoa. The ordinary chocolate that we are used to, from chocolate cigarettes and easter bunnies to high quality supermarket chocolate, has been burnt on high temperatures and therefore lost some of its best flavours.
Tickets
For this Aromatheque edition, María Salvadora Jiménez, will show us the special techniques that she uses to select the best cacao beans from all over the world.
She will take us to small cacao plantages in Mexico and South America. She collaborates with farmers and helps them to improve their harvest and get to the best type of cacao. This cacao has been carefully selected and needs to be roasted on low temperatures to maintain most of its precious flavors. She will tell us all about the process of selection and will reveal the secrets of high quality cacao. And of course she will let us taste the differences.
About Aromathéque
Every month olfactory artist Frank Bloem curates a program where experts, artists, designers and scientists shift our perspectives on what we eat, drink, touch, inhale, secrete and smell. These so called "lower senses" are not only placed lower in our body but also were considered through history as lesser, more banal and not sophisticated. We think differently. Starting from a simple theme with a thought provoking question, we go on a journey and inviting people from different disciplines to discover the world that lies behind everyday phenomena.
Frank Bloem
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He started his lab The Snifferoo in 2016 and creates scent art projects. From elephant scents for Artis Zoo to erotic pine scents for festival Into the great wide Open. He works with artist and museums and has a long term collaboration with The Embassy of the North Sea for who he made art projects and a perfume. For Mediamatic Frank has been active since 2017. From Collaborating on Odorama evenings with Caro Verbeek to giving scent and distillation workshops. Since 2019 he is the manager of the Aroma Lab that he set up together with Niklaus Metler.
Frank presenting Aromatheque first edition Mayo -
María Salvadora Jiménez
María Salvadora Jiménez is a fine flavour Cacao specialist. She collaborates with farmers and helps them to improve their harvest to get to the best type of cacao.
Information
Thursday 21st of May
19:30 - 21:00
Ticket: €12,50
Student, kunstenaar, Stadspas: €8,50
