The concept of Nowhere Kitchen involves paying diners who bring their own edible, uncooked leftovers to be turned into a multi-course meal where storytelling, people and food converge. — Photos: PUTTI COOP X KONGSIKL
Despite the misnomer, Nowhere Kitchen is anything but directionless. Designed as an improvisational art platform to share ideas through food and conversation, the project – and the thought process behind it – was developed by Filipino artist Pepe Dayaw in Madrid in 2012. When KongsiKL approached Lian for a collaboration a few months ago, he proposed the idea of doing Nowhere Kitchen, something that he had helped his friend Dayaw with in Germany. The idea to do something tangible to help the arts industry had also been germinating since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“So we would cook over wood-fire in a little pot in the park or someone’s garden and it was quite amazing! Everyone had to bring a leftover and the meal was totally improvised,” he says. “And what is more suitable than food and eating for the Malaysian culture – it is what our culture is orientated around. And then KongsiKL got excited about the project and we thought ‘Let’s do it three or four times and see what the response is like and test the waters,’” explains Lian.Since starting Nowhere Kitchen in March 2022, response has been very good. Each dinner is held once a month and has the capacity for 20 diners.
Another installation of Nowhere Kitchen saw Chinese herbal medicine practitioner and registered pharmacist Shirley Chong as well as chef Ang Ling Chee, who was once the head chef at famed English chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s eatery – talking about the healing powers of food. “So the artist team is not involved in the conversation, because very often an art performance has a lot of messaging from the artist or creators, but with this, we are able to take a step back.
“Everything goes because first of all it is quite hard to limit what people should bring, because we don’t know what they have and the amount also. Like sometimes one person brings in just one papaya, but then one another person brings in yoghurt, so it’s perfect because we can have that together. Surprisingly every time, it works,” explains Lian.
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