Get You Out of the Blue Soup
𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶
𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘱 is a live-cooking performance and
research project that investigates care and kin-making through the lens
of traditional Chinese pharmacological herbs and domestic Cantonese
herbal soup practices. These practices are familiar to many Cantonese
diasporic families and are transmitted through oral recipes and intuitive
cooking methods passed down by grandmothers and mothers.
The
project carries traces of performance. Soup becomes both method and
medium, activated by scent, sound, and shared presence. It carries fluid
emotions, latent memories, and the quiet strength of everyday rituals.
Here,
soup becomes an informal archive of memory and culture. Something
fluid. Evaporative. Permeable. Quietly carried forward through
generations.
Created and performed: Biyi Zhu
Music and sound produced: nojokemusic
Performance Documentation: Miles Silvagni, yocloudyun
This performance project is made possible by the Cultuurfonds.
Presented in Vide Cultura: through rot and renewal - 30 years of Nieuwe Vide, Haarlam; Dingen die niet Verkopen, Antwerp
Performance Documentation