Culinary Stories – Aquatic Hybrids is an interdisciplinary art dinner

exploring changing understandings of nature in the Anthropocene. For the dinner, a series of ceramic sculptures inspired by coral and other aquatic forms were created as vessels for a four-course, entirely vegan menu by chef Chiara Strobl, mimicking aquatic foods through plant-based ingredients.

The dinner was accompanied by a speculative reading by Abie Franklin, using specially designed cards to introduce alternative narratives around aquatic life, food and the future of nature. The ceramic forms function simultaneously as sculptures, vessels and part of the dining experience, bringing food and art into a shared, temporary environment.

Rather than simply serving food on artworks, the project treated the dinner itself as a shared artistic medium. The ceramics, food, storytelling and act of eating came together to create a temporary world in which familiar distinctions between nature and culture, organism and object, as well as food and sculpture could be reconsidered.

https://www.moct.show/culinary-stories-aquatic-hybrids

photos © Raphael Fischer-Dieskau