Broeder-Bruder-Bruedher
Interactive performance Installation
Together with Jessica van Deursen 2018
In the installation Broeder - Bruder - Bruedher, we reflect on the of how we shape our dining experience, and how our dinging culture might also shape us, in three different settings. Participants could taste freshly cooked versions of Broeder, Bruder or Bruedher, cooked with different techniques: one that contained only fresh and local ingredients, one which was made with fermented ingredients, and one that could be sold in a supermarket, because it contained so many additives that it could no longer go bad.''
The recipe 'Broeder' (also know as 'Jan in de Zak'), is a bread dish, which is cooked in boiling water, in a bind piece of cloth. It traditionally contains ginger and cinnamon currants. Brought by the ships of the VOC to diverse countries. more than 250 years later, derivative versions of Broeder can be found in Indonesia, Shri Lanka and India, and are named Bruedher, Bruder, Barudel and Barudana.
