gratitude

Nowhere Kitchen happened thanks through the participation of many.

‘Many cooks in a small kitchen’. A Nowhere Kitchen happening led by Pepe Dayaw at the Phosphorus art space, as part of the residency program co-organized with Lanchonete.Org, Sao Paulo, 2014. Photo: Todd Lester

TOO MANY COOKS…
an old proverb

Acknowledgments

Bayanihan is a term in the Tagalog language that refers to the organic way of how people help each other in times of need. For example, when a typhoon sweeps houses away, neighbors would activate themselves and help each other rebuild. Without any predisposed budget and its somewhat precarious nature, Nowhere Kitchen became a fluid space for collabs and each experience somehow became an organic piece of bayanihan, where people who were present helped in animating and feeding the context.

Special thanks to the following people for sharing their precious creative time and voluntary contribution that helped Nowhere Kitchen grow and evolve:

Luter Filho, creative input and logo design; Ayumi Saito, creative input and performance; Marie Capesius, creative input, moral support, kitchen work and documentation; Danilo Timm, kitchen work, management support and creative input; Rita Couto, documentation; Kathrin Kuna, event coordination; Glenda Sino-Cruz, management support; Hiroki Mitsuboshi, documentation; Bruno Granja, moral support, kitchen work; Nino Kovac, creative input and documentation support; and to many others who shared their work to document the process.

Pepe Dayaw with the Passiflora Live (Danilo Timm, Denis Altschul and Luter Filho) and friends at the UNCOMMONS event organized by Berliner Gazette Redaktion. Volksbühne, Berlin 2015. Photo: Andi Weiland

and to many more who formed part of the Nowhere Kitchen transient fellowship

Nowhere Kitchen as an open platform, space for play and nomadic project attracted many bodies who were so enthusiastic to this ‘new’ approach of cooking that it became for them a space for experimentation as well. Thanks to them, each Nowhere Kitchen itineration became a sort of fellowship or an free school. Special shout out to you for sharing the labor of cooking, for collaborating with your own artistry and offering their expertise. Special thanks for the camaraderie and all the best to your own personal journeys.

Bruno Granja, Ayumi Saito, Danilo Timm, Asli Hatipoglu, Laura Ximena, Denis Altschul, Luter Filho, Marie Capesius, Lian Kian Lek, Renata Ovalle Saboya, Kotoe Karasawa, Joanna Fatorelli, Jan Dubsky, Jessie Alice, Pedro Hostalacio, Judy Moualla, Sangeeta Lerner, Alex Shure, Anahat Kaur, Micta Chris, Lalo Gomes, Franz Bayerhofer, Nicolo Belli, Max Fowler, Daphne Brunet, Catherine Schmidt, Susanna Tosi, Anastasia Fyk, Maddie Magnus Walker, Francesca Casauay, Tawan Bounxoun, Radek Mirski, Ana Paula Ibanez, Anna Hölzinger, Marina Mantovanini, Renata Helm, Michael Klein, Mishka Adams, Isa Tabasuares, meLe yamomo, Morgan Sully, Kyotetsu Horikawa, Kristin Bergman and many others.

From left: Selvaggia Peroni, Bruno Granja, Monica Cofino, Coral Paniagua cooking with Pepe Dayaw at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Mostoles. 2012. Photo: CA2M

A very special thank you and best wishes to everyone who washed the dishes.

Acknowledgement and shout out to donors, sponsors and funding supporters. Thank you for your generosity.

Paul and Jen Nikkel, Jane Marielle Patricio, Aaron Laforteza, Adrien Labaeye, Max Fowler, Maria Neicu, Matteo Dineen, Rosauro Patricio Jr., Adrien Stoness, Eva Bentcheva, Philippine Embassy – Berlin

The creation of this website and digital archive portal is made possible thanks to the support of the German federal funding, through the Fonds Daku e.V. #takethat and #takeheart program.

Support through Residencies

Nowhere Kitchen was developed thanks to residencies and temporal space projects in:

Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro). Nowhere Kitchen Project Space at Wipperstrasse 12 (Berlin). Agora Collective (Berlin). Lanchonete Project (Sao Paulo). Villa Tereze House Foundation (Le Marche). Forth Projects (Winnipeg). Sari-Sari Project Space at Lichtenrader Strasse 49 (Berlin). Fabrik: International Theater for Dance (Potsdam)

Special Greetings to those who became part of the Nowhere Kitchen routes of spicyness.

The students and teachers of Master en Practicas Escenicas y Cultura Visual in Madrid 2011 / Laura Pacheco / Gueraldine Guerrero / Lilith Albornoz Munoz / Lilian Pineda / Estitxu Arroyo / Mery Dorp / Monica Cofino and friends from La Xata La Rifa / Juan Domiguez, Cuqui and Maria Jerez & Living Room Festival / Jaime Vallaure and Family / Rafael Lamata / Oscar Cornago / Alicia Rios / Diana Delgado Urena / Espacio B – Madrid / Ernesto Estrella Cozar / Spielart Festival / La Cosa en Casa – Bilbao / Annelore Smits / Sara Brkic / B-Tour Festival / Kadri Noormets / Francesca Romana Ciardi / Month of Performance Art-Berlin / Lian Kian Lek / Antje Rieck / Il Castelo di Verduno / Berliner Gazette Redaktion / Friends from Forthwith Festival & the Forth Projects / Woutr Jaspers / Todd Lester & Lanchonete.Org / Casa Almarela Sao Paulo / Caique Tizzi, Marcela Donato, Taina Moreno, Pedro Jardim & the Agora Collective / Sun Mee Martin / Maricarmen Sierra / Kavita Meelu and Thilo Goodstar / Ursula Heinzelmann & the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery / Elisabeth Luard / Dovrat Meron / Teena Länge & Grüntaler 9 / Camila Graff Junior / Dirk Bell / Bernd Fraunholz / Lola Randl / Rumi Kobukawa and the Architecture Students of KTH Stockholm / Bone Performance Festival-Bern / Green Papaya Art Projects / Festival Panorama – Rio de Janeiro / Renate Auzina & the House Foundation Le Marche / Trial & Error – Berlin / Uferstudios and the folks from HZT / Social Muscle Club / Bettina Knapp / Kati Röttger / Viljandi Festival / Fredierike & Dieu Hao and the Abitz Family / Catarina Saraiva / Guerilla Architects / Taina Guedes and Entretempo Kitchen Gallery / Zarah Boreas / Comuna-Rio de Janeiro / Maricarmen Sierra / Rumah Sanur Creative Hub – Bali / Friends from Markthalle Neun / Florian Niedermeyer / Philippine Embassy – Berlin / Rosa Cordillera Castillo / Jan Dubsky and Stiftung Freizeit / Max Geuer / Patrick Flores / Wen Lee / Floating University Berlin / Fabrik International Center for Contemporary Dance – Potsdam / Nord Deutsche Junge Philharomonie / Passiflora Live / Drumherum / Ariel Orah and Soy Division / Kasia Sztarbala / Sara Brkic and B-Tour Festival Belgrade / Margaux Schwab and Food Culture Days / Atelier Fanelsa / Transdemo e.V. / Johana Häger and Permakultur Hof Steinhäger / Trial and Error e.V. / Friends and Neighbors of the Sari-Sari Project in Schillerkiez and many more…

Thank you. Vielen Dank. Muchas Gracias. Maraming salamat po.

A Special Dedication

This project is a loveletter to my family and to the personal stories of those who have walked, cooked and lived the Nowhere Kitchen way, before…
Pepe Dayaw (Joseph Patricio)