Convivia
Convivia are the final gathering of the Umwelten that have been discovered, explored and cooked. A communal feast with an always different community of urban gastronomers or a new trajectory that unveils the common dimension of any urban landscape and metabolism.
Jul 5, 2012
Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli in collaboration with sound artist Trevor Mathison (Dubmorphology) present and invite you to the Berlin declaration of the Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism.
Jul 5, 2012
The Berliner Steinwein is a telluric brew percolating through the strata of minerals, sand and concretions of bricks that constitute the urban skeleton of Berlin. The Berliner Steinwein reverses the common habit of filtering and distilling, recomposing the fertile impurity of water and its promiscuity with soil, recognising the fellowship of all Berlin water with its ground.
Feb 26, 2012
The first batch of Ferment Utrecht (Fermentum Ultrajectinum) was shared and dunk as a toast to new forms of communal production, between people and other, more than human urban life forms. The performance was held on Sunday 26 February and marked the close of the Grand Domestic Revolution exhibition at Casco, Utrecht.
Apr 29, 2011
An edible journey through the old collection and cloister garden of Centraal museum, Utrecht. Children can chomp their way through some of the most prominent vegetation seen within the museum collection. The plants symbolised in the paintings of Holy virgin as well as the museum's rich collection of 17th century still lives have been cultivated in the museum's former convent garden.
Oct 9, 2010
50 guests oriented their appetites for an experimental dinner in Mediamatic bank as part of the exhibition Noord. The recipes were composed by Wietske Maas together with Sander Overeinder of restaurant As.
Aug 24, 2010
A convivium in three recipes for a flower, a root and a leaf under the old motto of Schaerbeek: “Stubborn like a donkey, fertile as the ground where the cherry trees grow”. Guests are invited to develop a common appetite for some questions on art, nature and the city.
Jun 15, 2010
A temporary urbanibalist headquarters will be set up as part of Casco's Grand Domestic Revolution project in Utrecht; a convivial experimental kitchen-pharmacy hosting dinners, talks and consultations to transform ingredients collected from in and around the city of Utrecht into a treatment for common domestic ills of our time.
May 18, 2010
The edible vegetation that has lain siege over the former defense zone is made into a 'Fort Beleg'. Beleg in Dutch means both siege and sandwich spread.
Feb 9, 2010
Urbmouth is a curative aperitif against the social and physical ailments of urban living and a toast to the productive metabolism of urban nature.
Oct 18, 2009
A supper for pathologic appetites held in the W.G kunst, a former sanatorium as part of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis hospital complex, Amsterdam.
Jun 28, 2009
A convivial service held at dawn on the 28 June 2009 at the Jeruzalem church, Amsterdam.
May 11, 2009
An expedition and convivium developed in cooperation with Wietske Maas, Sher Doruff, Matteo Pasquinelli, Rick Dolphijn and cook Sander Overeinder.
May 11, 2009
The menu for the convivium 'What's eating Amsterdam?' at As restaurant.
Nov 22, 2008
A mythological urban ambrosia presented at Open Sauces, a dinner organised by FoAM, Brussels.
Sep 21, 2008
A confection-making stand as part of City Sense, an event curated by Nat Muller at Garajistanbul.
Jul 16, 2008
A kumis style fermented milk and honey drink for the exhibition A Time Like This in Melbourne.
Mar 23, 2007
The first ever urbanibalist dinner was held in Amsterdam in March 2007.