I contributed as a Researcher for Dirty Furniture Magazine for the project The Cooking Show, featured within the context of the fifth edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one. The Critical Cooking Show is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial.
Dirty Furniture is the critically acclaimed magazine edited by Anna Bates and Elizabeth Glickfeld that considers design from the perspective of use. Each issue takes a piece of furniture as its theme to explore topics spanning design, politics, history, technology, psychology, and the plain weird.
The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat? Dirty Furniture’s jam-packed video essay is a rollercoaster ride through the history of the genre, at once a staple of television viewing and a hotpot of shifting perspectives and sociocultural values.
The video essay critically explores the evolution of the tv cooking show from early broadcasted programs in the 1940s to present day interpretations on IGTV, TikTok and YouTube.
As a Researcher, my main tasks were:
- To critically analyze the colonial legacies of Brazilian cooking shows, understanding its contributions to overall popular culture and societal behaviors;
- To gather moving-image clips and data collection, forming an archive of material on the tv cooking show and creating and managing data sets and regular presentations of research findings.
- To develop a social media strategy and captions for Instagram posts about the research.
A film by Dirty Furniture.
Directed by: Anna Bates and Elizabeth Glickfeld
Edited by: Wendy Short
Research by: Rosalita Baldassin, Lara Machado, Ruth Mitchell and Carmel Wilkinson-Ayre
Additional research by: Misato Ehara, Pin-Chieh Pan and Fumiko Yamazaki