2015年5月11日

「半路夜食譜─施工中」Halfway Night Recipes-Construction continued


計畫型創作,裝置,依場地,2015
「半路夜食譜─施工中」網站 http://halfwaynightrecipes.blogspot.tw/ 

背景簡介
2008年野草莓運動後,在廣場相識的一群人在2009年以共營、開放、實驗的模式經營「直走咖啡」,以空間做為組織,開展想像,建立具有意識並且有行動力的社群。2012年「直走」歇業;在陌生咖啡店的沙發窩裡、在街頭上流離的,既有與新的個體們相遇,重塑彼此,於是2014年「半路咖啡」上路了。

作為另一個新計畫和全新的聚合,試圖讓更多失去方向、語言的人都可以在「半路」找到自己的位置;延續對於公共性的創造,「半路」以國家為喻,發展了四條具政治企圖的路線:貨幣、互助牆、菜園與夜食堂。

其中夜食堂更發展出店中店(國中國)的、個人/地方的自治版圖實踐,週期有固定的人或團體,烹調出屬於自身背景與經驗的供餐;在這裡,食物是理念的傳遞,食物作為一個連結介面,啟動任何發生的可能,甚至是革命,並揭示我們關於生存如何選擇的價值。

《半路夜食譜》出版計畫
張恩滿受半路的魅力所吸引,於是探尋並試著提案;先以短駐概念進入空間與社群,採訪夜食堂大廚們做整理編排,初步出版〈半路夜食譜-試刊〉,並執行出版計畫系列活動。試圖從料理的前端進入,去理解一個人或群體的生活態度與知識經驗,進而背後的養成文化與政治立場,並將這個網絡拼湊起來,描繪出一個社群意識,甚至是集體意識的烏托邦。

施工者:張恩滿+半路咖啡
參與展覽:《食物箴言:思想與食物》


Halfway Night Recipes --- TRIAL ISSUE
Project-Oriented, Installation, 2015

About Halfway Night
In 2008, a group of people got to know each other on the occasion of Wild Strawberries Movement. In 2009, they collaborated to run the Go Straight Café as an experimental and open space for the purpose of organizing a community and taking actions. 2012, Go Straight Café closed down. Since then, individuals drifted from one café to another, sitting on unfamiliar sofas till they met each other again. In 2014, Halfway Café hit the road.

Halfway Café is a project as well as a platform for those who lost in directions or languages finding their own place. In order to continue creating publicness, Halfway made an analogy of itself and a country and develops four political routes: currency, mutual aids wall, farming and night canteen. 

Above all, Halfway Night Canteen bases on a concept of “a store with another store”(a country inside another country) and puts individual/public self-governance into practice. From Monday to Sunday, a chef of each day cooks thematic meals related to their background in-store. Here, food is a medium for delivering beliefs. It can activate any possibilities and even revolutions. It discloses values that we choose to survive.     

a publishing project
En Maan Chang was fascinated by Halfway. She explored the proposed a collaboration. Firstly, she became resident-chef in Halfway Night canteen and got to know the community and the space better. She lately interviewed night canteen chefs and edited it for publishing a trial issue of Halfway Night Recipes in order to understand an individual/collective’s attitude, knowledge, experiences as well as the culture and political position behind. Her intention was to picture a networking and portray a community conscious and even a collective consciousness of utopia. 

CHANG En Man + HalfwayCafé

Halfway Night Recipes - Construction continued