Nourishing Our Senses 

In collaboration with Brackish Collective 
comissioned by Sandberg Student Circle 
2023

Radical Roots and Brackish collective invited non-EU students of Sandberg Institute & Rietveld to take some time off to nourish and synch with their bodies while sharing space, and possibly connect with fellow migrant students. Following the lineages of somatic work Mayıs and Lina have been learning at Ecologies of Transformation with Char CA, Joy Mariama Smith, and Camille Barton, we offered somatic exercises to bring awareness to the multiple sensations preparing food, eating and cleaning our table and kitchen, provoke in our bodies. Using the ingredient tarhana as our guide, Catalina and Lila, 1/2 of the Brackish collective, took a closer look at the ingredients and methods of preparation involved in preparing this soup that is often present in the ifthar tables of Ramadan. Collectively, we prepared this dish - tasting and telling stories along the way - with the somatic exercises facilitated by Radical Roots.

Brackish is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project formed by the artists and writers; Catalina Reyes (CL), Lila Bullen-Smith (ZA), Megan Hadfield (UK), and Toni Brell (DE). Brackish seeks to explore local history and memory using the ebb and flow of water as the point of departure for artistic research. Through narrative dinners, food tastings and storytelling, we create a multisensory frame that brings this research to life.