Über die Kunst des Kochens

Ein Interview mit Pepe Dayaw von Jörn Kabisch, veröffentlicht im August 2018 in der TAZ:An interview with Pepe Dayaw by Jörn Kabisch, published in TAZ in August 2018: Pepe Dayaw über die Kunst des Kochens:„Mit Essensresten sollte man spielen“ Pepe Dayaw ist ein Restekünstler.Er besucht Menschen zuhause und kocht mit dem, was sie noch im……

becoming spice routes

an introduction a history of cooking is a history of feelings. sensations felt by the body while submitted to the alchemic process of fire, water, air, metal, earth and heart into one series of rituals. it is in fact a theatre of a thousand acts, and one could break it down based on the feelings……

Leftovers performed

Leftover, a word that forms the basis of the Nowhere Kitchen method means ‘what is there’. It goes beyond the food itself but involves all the practices embedded in leftover culture. https://player.vimeo.com/video/152796037 In big cities, leftover becomes associated with waste and relates to modes of overproduction. Hence the need to rescue leftovers. In a rural……

‘leftover artist’

When Filipino performance artist Pepe Dayaw takes over a guest’s kitchen as part of his itinerant cooking project Nowhere Kitchen he asks that they don’t shop for groceries—instead it’s the odds and ends in their cupboards that take center stage at his roving dinners. The project began in 2012 in Madrid, after finishing his Master……

Pepe & Freunde / July 2019

Pepe Dayaw celebrates seven years of his kitchen practice that evolved into a living philosophy through a series of now here dinners honoring the past. Featuring dishes that have defined Pepe’s cooking history and new performances from friends he met along the migrant way.

Prayers for Sun

Dinner and Voices with Pepe Dayaw and Friends 25 March, Sunday, 7pm In one’s naive mind, dreams are often animated fantasies that take lives of their own and just flow gently without consequence. Until the religion of experience brings forth what we could not yet feel when we are only dreaming. The stinging cold. The……

Leftovers Reincarnated

an interview with Pepe Dayaw, by Anette Kvaksrud Hansen photos by Kevin Klein, published originally in Semi-Domesticated   When I first met Pepe about a year ago, he was in the middle of a demonstration on cooking with leftovers for an upcoming workshop series. Moving vigorously as he transformed yesterday’s unwanted rice into a crunchy breaded……

#Unlearning in the 21st Century Economy: Lessons from a Vietnamese Spring Roll

from Marjorie Brans, a guest of a Nowhere Kitchen dinner that served ‘Social Rolls’ inspired by the Vietnamese rice paper rolls. Originally published by the author in 11 January 2017, two years after attending this dinner. A few years ago, I attended a formal business dinner with a surprise: guests were to prepare the meal.……

Sari-Sari. A Home for Cooking and Many Things

Photo: Marie Capesius After 5 years of nomadic cooking, various encounters around the world, Nowhere Kitchen finds itself a little homebase in Berlin. A space that one could call home, a beautiful leftover from other cooking serendipities. Welcome home to Sari-Sari! We dedicate it as a salon for diverse cooking stories, theatres and pop-up projects.……

Recipe from Rehearsal 16.03.2017

Present Pepe, Anna, Ronya, Suzanna, Isabella, Livia, Adrien, Clair, Kotoe, Hiroki, Kyutetsu, Lisa, Denis, Sasha, Luter Summary Dancing with Limits Walking as Entry Point Discussion: Ad Libitum Moving with Scarf Awkwardness The Need for Introduction turned into small performances from everyone challenge: to sustain the flow (avoid dead air) Transition and Entry, practice of restraint……