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MICUL MICUL – Algae Kitchenlab Workshop

A social cooking workshop and performance that uses food as a medium for storytelling, challenging our everyday perceptions and habits. In this project, Maya Minder explores the relationship between humans and the ecological world, framed through the lens of care work and eco-feminism. Cooking is inherently political; our habits of eating and domesticating plants and animals shape landscapes and ecosystems across the planet.

Program

  • 4:30pm – Doors open
  • 5:00pm – Introduction and presentation
  • 5:45pm – Recipes cooking
  • 7:15pm – Demonstration and degustation
  • 8:00pm – End
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  • Boston and New York

    3:00AM

  • Brazil

    5:00AM

  • China

    4:00PM

  • India

    1:30PM

  • Japan

    5:00PM

  • San Francisco

    12:00AM

  • Switzerland

    9:00AM

Edible Connections: Food as the Interface Between Humanity and the Planet

In this workshop, Maya Minder sparks a conversation about integrating seaweed into our daily diets. Often overlooked, seaweed is a vital biological material, acting as a biosensor of ocean health. Its unfamiliar textures and forms provoke curiosity about the diversity of life, while reminding us of humanity’s ancient connection to the sea.

 

For centuries, Japanese and East-Asian cultures have embraced seaweed as a staple food source, long before its recent recognition in the West. Drawing from her multicultural upbringing, Maya Minder aims to adapt seaweed for Western palates, merging traditions with innovation to create fusion recipes for the 21st century.

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The workshop is complemented by an informative webpage detailing Maya Minder’s research and inviting participants to contribute their own seaweed-based recipes. This initiative is part of the Vitality.Swiss program, developed in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Japan.

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Vitality is a movement, not a stillness. Health, the joy of living and growing. Enjoying not only one’s own liveliness and resilience but also the lives which surround us.

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    Bio

    Maya Minder

    Artist

    Maya Minder studied Art history at the University of Zurich and MA in Fine Arts at Zurich University of Arts. Her research-based practice circles around the topics of food stories, evolutionary biology, and relational aesthetics within practices of cooking, biohacking, performance, and media-based installations. Her aim is to share collective storytelling and embodiment of knowledge within ecological thinking. Also working as a curator, she is the co-president of the International Hackteria Society, Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (SGMK) and a board member of Foodculture Days, Switzerland. She is also part of the Fungi Cosmology project, an art/science-based exchange between Brazil, Chile, and Switzerland funded by Pro Helvetia South America. Exhibitions, workshops, and conferences at Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Serpentine Gallery, London, Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, ByArtMatters, Hangzhou, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, Jeu de Paume and Cité International des Arts, Paris, Kanazawa 21st CE Museum, Swiss Embassy in Japan, Ars Electronica, Nominations, Awards and Residency by Art Explora, KADIST Award, Pax Award, Pro Helvetia, Migros Kulturproz- ent, a.o.

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Partners

  • Swissnex
  • Presence Switzerland
  • Art2M
  • Vitality.Swiss
  • Adecco

Contact

    Fiammetta Pennisi

    Head of Art-Science
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