Kitchen Notes – Three Attempts in Gangneung began with three encounters: learning directly from two local bakers and a sausage maker. Bread and Nürnberger bratwurst made through these exchanges are presented alongside Hong Kong style egg tarts, which I taught myself to make while living in Korea. Through learning, making and sharing food, the project connects everyday skills with questions of recognition and qualification. I designed and issued the certificates myself, then asked the craftspeople I learned from to sign them. They record actual encounters and skills shared outside a formal qualification system.
The exhibition
Cooking tools, photographs, prints and food tasting performances bring the practical work of making food into the gallery.
Learning from others
Photographs record learning with the local bakers and sausage maker. The self-made certificates name the food, the people and the skills involved, giving these informal exchanges a visible record.
Tools, traces and prints
Making and sharing
SAD Kitchen Chef Kits
The kits use packaging and 3D-printed food models to bring the time and labour of making food into the form of a product.
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