This bachelor’s thesis explores preservation as a way of carrying values, knowledge, and intentions into the future. Taking food preservation as a starting point, it considers how everyday acts of keeping, transforming, and passing on can reproduce existing worlds while also shaping new ones. A practice-based guide translates these ideas into everyday experience.

This calendar presents time as a cyclical process rather than a linear sequence of days. It is structured around seasonal rhythms and consists of scores that can be performed once or several times throughout the year. These scores invite us to pay attention to the shared rhythms of nature, people, and other living beings, and to understand time as something that emerges through practice, change, and renewal. The calendar can be reused after each completed cycle.

The participatory format Satisfy My Hunger invited participants into an intimate exploration of the sensual potential of food. The boundaries of familiar eating rituals were crossed, and participants were invited to explore their senses in a playful way, either freely according to their desires or with the help of prompts.

All of a sudden
past,
present,
and the future,
come rushing at me
all at once.

The publication Alle(s) in einen Topf playfully appropriates the notion of the “national dish” to expose the reductive logic through which nation-states construct seemingly fixed and coherent identities. By presenting each dish through a standardized format, dividing countries into EU and non-EU categories, and arranging them alphabetically, the publication amplifies the absurdity of reducing complex, fluid cultures to singular national stereotypes.

In uphill, downhill,  biographical processes are explored and translated into topographical and culinary terms. Food items are arranged along a mountain trail that ascends and then descends, and their themes are based on this path. Visitors are thus invited to embark on a culinary journey through the symbolic highs and lows of college life.

The performance builds on the Stone Soup project, which focused on and explored collective cooking as an artistic practice and political act. Drawing on this experience, the follow-up performance asks: What remains once the act of cooking, sharing, and exchanging together is over? 

The performance Open till seven navigates the threshold between gesture and action, symbol and reality. It raises questions about participation, visibility, and the conditions under which people speak, or remain silent, in both art and politics.


Performed on June 12, 25 @ HGK, 5–7 p.m.