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🔦2018 - Pre-Research (mucking about)

Conception & Exploring connection || January → December

Appetize Empathy - a thoughtful dining experience (iArts poverty project) [Jan]

Appetize Empathy was an artistic dinner show in which 8 participants were selected from a wide range of socio-economic positions. The guests were invited to dine with each other for 2 hours.

The project was seeded at the start of 2018 when I began research into the state of poverty nearby Maastricht. The aim was to eventually "create an artistic dinner show" which would express my findings and reflections. I worked on this with four colleagues from iArts (Rubi Jansen, Milou Elbersen, Anchel Pablos, Mattia Vavassori).

In retrospect, I notice Appetize Empathy relates clearly to my current work of 2020:

• It was participatory - the audience interacted
• It was socially experimental - we created unordinary physical and social interventions which invited participants to interact with each other and themselves
• It intended towards a very practical takeaway - each participant voiced their professional skills and personal needs. They also wrote them down volunatrily along with contact details and exchanged with each other.

Timothy Davis, the co-initiator and what we can call the “source” of the project, writes about The Treehouse Project:

“We want social spaces that touch us, nourish us, and support us. Spaces that add a new layer of depth and meaning to our existence. A cosy, warm, welcoming, and unapologetically real space where our human-ness (and monkey-ness) is recognized and respected fully. We want to grow radically, in our emotional, social, personal, and professional lives and recognise the potential of The Treehouse Project as a safe and reflective opportunity that can support us in becoming far more capable than we may realise” (Davis 2019).