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……

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……

‘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……

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……