Come Over at 6? is an ongoing project revolving around evenings spent cooking and eating dinners in my friends’ homes. Using themes of family, heritage, and childhood recipes as underlying context for our conversations throughout each night, the act of cooking and eating together has become a means through which to open new avenues for interpersonal learning and connection.
The result is a collection of zines that form a compiled cookbook, in a sense; because what is a cookbook if not a series of recipes woven together by some narrative thread?
The project also took the form of a gallery installation that invited participants to take a seat at a communal table and engage with the content; zines were laid out for flipping through, while audio from each of the five dinner conversations played in the background. Outside, I cooked a meal that was shared amongst gallery-goers and passersby, all of whom were welcomed to connect over the communal act of eating.
