ARTIST PROFILE

martinka bobrikova  & oscar de carmen

  • Slovakia (b. 1981 in Bratislava)
  • artist duo
Kitchen Dialogues B&B

Kitchen Dialogues B&B

  • 2015
  • We offered accomodation to registred guests (max 12 per night) between 18th and 28th of june free of charge and the quest free of spending their time the way they want with one commitment to attend the morning brunch with the other quests.

  • Another event of Kitchen Dialogues project commissioned for Prague Quadrennial. Creating a social and cultural environment in our studio with modules/bedrooms built with recycled wood made it unique, warm and cosy, without forgetting all modern amenities.

  • Unnamed
  • Unnamed 1
  • Img 3019
  • Unnamed 11
  • Artist lunch menu - thumbnail Morning Glory - thumbnail Kitchen Dialogues B&B - thumbnail pop up restaurant - thumbnail Utopic Topic - thumbnail Do It YourSelf - thumbnail

    3 / 6

    Kitchen Dialogues | 2011 - 2016

Through the ongoing series of Kitchen Dialogue we are working with social interventions — that are at the same time a critical practice — operating via social research, site-specific installations and a series of social events and dialogues triggered by conviviality. We investigate our rooted social acts and habits, and question if we could act otherwise in social ways. Kitchen Dialogues has functioned as a nomadic platform for several years, with a series of gastronomic events as the common thread of the project. These events, that try to bring attention on the negative consequences of surplus food, have adopted different formats, from the creation of a temporary pop-up restaurant inside an apartment to occasional events, like a mobile kitchen or a pop-up B&B. Our goal is to create a platform where each participant can experience and live inside this social ecosystem we have created outside the consumeristic world, offering them services for free. A new economy is proposed and make tangible where the negotiation and social rituals revolving around food are given a face that speaks the language of gift, respect and responsibility.