Social cooking at Christmas

[imomus]

Christmas can be a lonely time -- there's nothing worse than feeling isolated during a big festival season, or staying put when everyone else is traveling -- so today I'm just going to send out a "Seasonal Greetings from Hisae and Nick" and add that I hope you're being collective with someone you find tasty, preferably cooking something tasty (as we are in the picture).

On the theme of cooking and being social, Hisae and I went yesterday to Social Cooking Romania, a show at NGBK in Kreuzberg that deals with post-totalitarian Romania via its food production system, from the days of queues to the days of EU agri-subsidy (the country joined the ever-expanding EU on January 1st). My favourite piece in the show -- if I'm honest, for the colour of a camping gas cannister on the trestle table, and I suppose the Relational Aesthetics warmth -- was a photo of Matei Bejenaru's 2002 Spanish action "Strawberry Fields Forever", in which he cooked up a pot of strawberries harvested by Romanian immigrants in Spain.



Bejenaru is an organiser of the Periferic Biennial and editor of Vector magazine. He's very much attuned to economic migration and social exclusion; another of his pieces (shown at Tate Modern this September) was a meticulous travel guide for illegal Romanian workers. Who better, then, to stand in on Click Opera for Santa -- that illegal nomad, economic migrant and generous relational aesthete?

Comments

[chickensnack.livejournal.com]

Made some baked ziti and fried chicken with some pals this evening. Good times all around.
SEASONAL GREETINGS back at you Nick and Hisae.

[kny.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas!

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

I am missing most of todays cooking preperation for christmas since I'll be working... Yet I shall do some mumma (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumma) for everyone tomorrow!

Keep it chocolate !

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Chrimbo Nick and Hisae

We'll be cooking up some goose with roasts and yorkshire puddings here Nick..Debs has got the champagne and I've got the Wii and Monopoly...what more could one poor boy desire.

love peace and harmony

Maf

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Here's a seasonal card Hisae just made:

A Twist at Christmas

[(Anonymous)]

The UK is an endlessly gorging 'foodie' these days, so I'm doing Oliver Twist gruel.

1 cup oats
1 cup mashed biscuits
2 cups water
Mix into porrigner
1 tsp child violence

[councilestate.livejournal.com]

You look so cute in the first picture.

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

I prefer this card. It has less of a "couples-rubbing-their-love-in-your face-at-Christmas" vibe. Y'know, which is preferable...

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It has less of a "couples-rubbing-their-love-in-your face-at-Christmas" vibe.

I dunno about that, it looks like Hisae and the squid are cho luvu-luvu and happy to rub it in my face. And it's Christmas. Bastard!

Greetings from 55416

[(Anonymous)]

Have taken the iTouch advice on board.

You both look great -- merry ex-mas!

Sxx

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

I agree!

greetings!

[(Anonymous)]

lentils on a cold nite like this surely warmed all of us up. happy to see your smiles. keep warm ....
merry christmas to you!

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

HA HA!

[rougeforever.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm an old softy, but lovely photo of the two of you smiling.

[(Anonymous)]

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Goodness gracious, this really has become a new folk art, like basket-unravelling or jelly-melting!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Even the LOLZERZ (http://community.livejournal.com/momus_lolz/15296.html) have done a couple o' Blingees!

[eclectiktronik.livejournal.com]

ok so its a bit out of date, but the message is still valid ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VcX2Egydow

all the best
Ben

Merry Xmas Nic and Hisae

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.

[dickon-edwards.livejournal.com]

Have a dandy Christmas, St Nick!

D
x

[shadowshark.livejournal.com]

Thank you Momus :) It means a lot!