HOT POT TALK: Cooking Up Recipes

(2023)

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What makes a recipe, a recipe?

HOT POT TALK: Cooking up Recipes is a participatory zine-making project with migrant writers in Singapore, looking at ‘recipes’ as means of expressing, exchanging, and sharing of personal memory, identity and agency.

Over several weeks, we gathered, ate, laughed, cried, and dreamt together of the kinds of world(s) we each want to live in. Each session, we created our own recipe-zines for our past and future selves, for our dreams, and as articulations of the small steps we take towards those worlds we dream of.

As part of this project, we’ve created a collated zine (designed and edited by Alecia Neo; Phoo Myet Che, Pearl; and Chong Gua Khee), bringing together some of the flavours of the recipe-zines created by the participants.

Whilst a digital version is free-to-view online, you can also support this project by purchasing a limited print edition, available from the Objectifs Shop for SGD25.

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HOT POT TALK is a long-term series that explores conversation as both process and form in art making - how might intimate, self-reflexive and playful conversations amongst people from diverse worlds be centred in the devising process and in the experience of the work? How do we practice holding space for ourselves and each other’s messy stories, and leaning into our differences and discomforts?

Production Credits

Director and Co-Facilitator

Chong Gua Khee

Co-Facilitator

Adib Kosnan

Visual Artist & Documenter

Alecia Neo
Phoo Myet Che, Pearl

Producer

Mok Cui Yin

Project Assistant

Jasmine See

Project Participants

Annisa
Ayu Candi Sari
Lorelyn de la Cruz Arevalo
Nelie Bautista
Janelyn Dupingay
Ma Jolie Fille
Stef
Sonia Serrenade