Reenacting a tradition

Reenacting a tradition is a durational performance that investigates the embodied passage of cultural rituals through the act of doing. Drawing from the artist’s own inherited practice of baking bread, the work stages a sensorial, physical, and affective inquiry into how traditions are sustained, transformed, and re-authored across generations. The performance unfolds as a live event with three performers, a working table, and a functioning oven, blending gesture, repetition, and material memory into a living archive of care and continuity.

With thanks to the Mondriaan Fonds, Cultuurfonds, Helicopter Studios and Stroom Den Haag. 
Performers: Chandana Sarme, Tingyi Jiang and Amit Palgi.