2 December 2025
10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET
Porta-Kitchen:
ANNA SWITAJ, FEYSA POETRY
The Bartlett UCL
Respondent: Shen He, ETH Zurich
Porta-Kitchen: Collaborative project by Feysa Poetry and Anna Switaj; the making of the moving kitchen: translation & foodprints in motion; photo collage: Feysa Poetry, 2025.
Anna Switaj and Feysa Poetry explore the kitchen not as a fixed, domestic room but as a mobile, relational space open to interpretation. In this project kitchens move across geographies, through time, and between people to reimagine them in new intimate and cultural settings. Through two distinct approaches, We investigate how acts of care performed through cooking and travel shift when uprooted from their original contexts.10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET
Porta-Kitchen:
How kitchens travel across roads, through memories, and with hands
ANNA SWITAJ, FEYSA POETRY
The Bartlett UCL
Respondent: Shen He, ETH Zurich
Porta-Kitchen: Collaborative project by Feysa Poetry and Anna Switaj; the making of the moving kitchen: translation & foodprints in motion; photo collage: Feysa Poetry, 2025.
Anna Switaj moves her kitchen in an RV, travelling from the UK to Ukraine. Along the way, she cooks, exchanges recipes, and hosts meals with people met en route. Her kitchen becomes a nomadic archive, folding in new rituals, tools, and ingredients with each border crossed.
Feysa Poetry transports her kitchen through the post, mailing her familial recipe from Indonesia to participants with culturally diverse backgrounds across the UK. Each recipient reimagines the dish within the limitations (and possibilities) of their own domesticity and cultural familiarity, generating rich translations in taste, technique, and memory.
Together, these movements examine how food, memory, and care are carried, adapted, and kept alive through motion and relational exchange. In this session we are interested in the site of taste, resilience, and cultural continuity. We reinterpret the memory of domestic labour as a recipe-scape: a collection of co-authored documents adapted and collectively owned by many. We treat the kitchen as a shared, decentralised space of knowledge where cooking methods, stories and personal hacks are exchanged freely, creating a living archive rooted in everyday practice.