Cultural Centre, Bodrum, Turkey
Studio C, 2021
A Monastic Reverence for Cultural Bastardisation.
In Bodrum, Turkey, unfettered tourism has 'bought' and commodified the local culture at a so-called “fair price”, mining the city with the hopes of finding coveted authentic experiences, albeit leaving behind
something of a shell.
This proposal seeks to recontextualise the exchange of and between cultures, using food and fire as a transient teaching
medium. Cultural memory is incarnated and stored as a recipe archive, authored by travellers and locals alike. Archives are kept alive through their use. The practice of making food transfers recipes between the static archives and into the living memories of the users.
No archive leaves in its physical form, disused archives are eventually cremated, leaving only the tools that produce them for generations to come.