Històries Trobades
︎︎︎by Jose Hopkins & Silvana Hurtado Dianderas
In “Històries trobades” – the Catalan translation of “finding stories – we investigate parts of homemade food’s formal vocabulary to tell a person’s story. The experience is motivated by how a particular Catalan woman cooks the traditional dish “Fricando.” We wanted to find portrait-like elements in the way she prepared, served and experienced this dish. Hence, we conceptualised this diner as a portrait. For this process, we drew parallels between the formal structure of Neoclassic or Baroque portraits and storyfinding narratives. We created a dinner with numerous layered symbolic elements that the diner/spectator found during the experience. This structure allowed the spectator to build their own dynamic narratives oscillating between a beautiful countryside dinner, class issues, women’s liberation, feminism and identity.
The elements we designed:
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[Quote on the napkin]
“The women’s world is divided, just as is the world of men, into two camps; the interests and aspirations of one group of women bring it close to the bourgeois class, while the other group has close connections with the proletariat, and its claims for liberation encompass a full solution to the woman question. Thus, although both camps follow the general slogan of the “liberation of women”, their aims and interests are different. Each of the groups unconsciously takes its starting point from the interests of its own class, which gives a specific class colouring to the targets and tasks it sets itself. [Alexandra Kollontai (1909)]”
“The women’s world is divided, just as is the world of men, into two camps; the interests and aspirations of one group of women bring it close to the bourgeois class, while the other group has close connections with the proletariat, and its claims for liberation encompass a full solution to the woman question. Thus, although both camps follow the general slogan of the “liberation of women”, their aims and interests are different. Each of the groups unconsciously takes its starting point from the interests of its own class, which gives a specific class colouring to the targets and tasks it sets itself. [Alexandra Kollontai (1909)]”