Days End (Flooding construction)
-installation/performance for Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor for the International Brucknerhaus Festival
Klangs-Kunst Skulptur 2022
An arrangement of live negotiation and material confrontation within the duration of the symphony.
Save the date ~~~~ 20.09.2025
14:00-15:30, Yppenplatz
Our communal cooking ritual gathers participants in the collective making of palitaw, a traditional Filipino rice cake whose root word, litaw, means “to float, to surface.”
Sugar takes center stage in this process: an ingredient that is synonymous with sweetness, and whose consumption and circulation carries the promise of pleasure. Yet what sustains this sensorial and affective economy is an economy of death in the haciendas of the Philippines. The story of sugar in the Philippines is the story of colonization, of lands seized, and of farmers exploited and killed, all for the purpose of exporting this product to cater to the pleasures of empire. It is also the story of farming communities’ stubborn insistence towards survival through the risky practice of bungkalan, a collective reclaiming and cultivation of land for sustenance. What arrives unremmarkably on our tables is bound to centuries of violence, struggle and survival that continue today.
As Tibok, we approach food as a living entity — one that pulses with and generates memories, emotions and histories. By collectively making and eating palitaw, we invite participants into a ritual of surfacing as a process of confronting how the consumption of sugar generates both life and death. Together, we metabolize these disquieting truths, recognizing our complicities in these economies. And finally, we explore: how might we reclaim the pleasures of making, consuming, and sharing food—so that eating becomes a practice that affirms life, community, and resistance?
This event is part of the “Breathing through Food” program of this year’s Wien Woche.
