akumassa Chronicle’s Cooking Together

Sunday, January 31st, 2016, was a special day for pasirputih. Most of artists in residence who were usually busy looking for probabilities to engage into Pemenang citizens’ social life, changed their activities for a while with cooking. In the early morning, Ahmad Humaedi went to market buying several ingredients, such as rice, beans, tempeh, seasoning, eggs and fishes. Sulung Widya Prasastyo, the artist from Yogyakarta, showed us his skill in cooking by the time Ahmad Humaedi arrived back to our office and put all of the ingredients in the kitchen.

Sulung started cooking with cleaning and washing the herbs and bean sprout, as well as cut the tempeh into small pieces. Syamsul Fajri, a theater artist from Lombok, helped Sulung for making chilli sauce. Dhoome and Hamdani also did the same.

The aroma of savory dishes invite curiosity comrades other artists. Once the dish is presented on the dining table, the artists, curators and pasirputih’s members directly went near to the dining table. That celebration, cooking and eating together, is to coincide with Gelar Soemantri’s birthday so that day was like a gift for him.

After lunch, there was a meeting between the curators and all of participant artists. They gave report about their process to the curators.