Yuxiao Wang (Kimi)

Thinking of the evolution and history of mobility in time and space, we could easily find a practice that has never changed: the practice of walking. We changed our itineraries, the necessity to walk, the surroundings, the features and characteristics of the streets, the tracks, and the pathways, but the way we move one step after the other has remained similar throughout history. For Husserl, walking is the experience that enables us to grasp our own bodies concerning the world. 

What is the relationship between intimacy and the public when intimacy is out of private space? What is the role of walking in this process? Walking constitutes a path to freedom, a tool for humans to reconnect with lost interactions with environment territory. It helps individuals find their place in public space and thus gain a sense of necessary intimacy from being needed.

Intimacy in wandering doesn’t require familiarity toward the chosen territory as today's territory, is not just land in a geographical sense but can be understood as a specific space that shapes us as individuals and projects our behaviour, an environment that shows who and where we are. I aim to develop an immersive experience exhibition through projection mapping that reveals intimacy-related ideas both mentally and spiritually. It invites the audience to build a geopolitics-sensitive experience directly and evoke new perspectives on intimacy while wandering in society.

Life Menu is a self-help cookbook for your daily problems. This publication is the outcome of our vast problematic "Healing through food".

"Have you ever struggled with the question of what to cook after a break-up? Have you ever thought of healing yourself with certain types of food? When you are feeling homesick, what can you eat? What would you eat after a fight with your parents? Single for too long? What could you eat to forget the feeling of loneliness? After an exhausting day, what is the best meal to recover energy? PMS is making your life really hard; how can food help alleviate your pain? If you have ever considered one or several of the previous questions, do not hesitate and get a copy of Life Menu!"

Life Menu is a self-help cookbook for your daily problems. This publication is the outcome of our vast problematic "Healing through food" derived from our initial idea of gathering people with food. We hope that people from different cultural backgrounds and of all ages will empathise and connect through the stories in the menu. And in the process, people can know about each other's experiences and cures through the medium of food. Even extensive social networks can be created through food to provide social and emotional support to individuals. 

Our project is on-going research on day-to-day based problems, emotions related to them and the caring process with food. We explore how to help ourselves and others through food and plant-based medicine (vegetables, teas, herbs, meals, etc) that can contribute to elevate our mood. After conducting research about healing with certain ingredients, we organised a workshop to collect stories and recipes, with the aim to co-create this cookbook. With a group of ten participants, we described emotions related to certain situations, and then created some menus. It was a playful collaboration gathering people and mentally cooking together.