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The taste of our first portion of Bistro im Bistro unfolds with a pleasantly bitter note that asks the question: What if hosting always involves an uninvited guest: the parasite?

With this ongoing format we continue to explore the question of hosting in a structure of multiple agents. And there you find yourself surrounded by objects, human and non-human animals, and something that looks alive or still/actually is alive. We hear sounds and smell odours, some of which are delicious, some of which sting or frighten. There are bodies that you recognise as having been transformed. Pressed into shape – violently or gently, you ask yourself. There are bodies that make you realise that they have merged, that they never existed as one or that they no longer do. We eat from each other’s plates, like rats after the housekeeper’s feast, or like lovers and friends. And we keep asking ourselves: are we symbionts or are we parasites? Are we preserving a system or disturbing it and thereby productively forcing it to change?

No system without a parasite*, says Michel Serres. We could think of the expansion from unicellular to multicellular organisms: the endosymbionts. And the virus that attacks the organism, making it resist and transform itself into a more complex system. No innovation, creativity and resilience without a parasite, we might think. Or we might…

Look for a table, around which one can begin to speak.
Delicacy for parasites**.

Switching, among others, in the roles of Host and Parasite:

POKY, who is Julia Gerke, Alina Röbke and everything that will have been***.
CROMA, an art space from Mexico City that comes alive through objects and entities by Aleph Escobedo, Margot Kalach, Mariana Dussel, Samuel Nicholle, Hellène Hector, Daniel Robles Lizano, Fernando Polidura and Santiago Gómez.
HGB Choir interpreting a script written in correspondence by /POKY and CROMA, with Christopher Beyer as director and Miguel L. Mirquez as conductor.
Taksim Bakery with chefs Nazlı & Aysegül serving us delicious hand-formed Çiğ Köfte.

* loosely based on „The Parasite“ by Michel Serres
** from „Script 3: The Intertwined Version“ by POKY and CROMA
*** quote by the artists Julia Gerke and Alina Röbke

Text: Alicia Franzke

 

Bistro im Bistro is a recurring invitation to gather, eat and talk. We invite friends, neighbours, artists and cultural workers, interested parties and food lovers to ask questions and focus our attention collectively. We follow our sense of smell and taste, but also our sense of touch, hearing and sight, and explore where it takes us.

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