OUR VISION
EAT THE WALLS is a cultural project by ccberlin that brings current conversations about environment, politics, and history to the table — connecting them through taste and knowledge.
2023
Spoon Carving Workshop
First meeting in the Baix Empordà
Re-knowing the territory. A way of approaching through making, through the attempt to craft a tool — questioning ourselves about this process, the ways in which we eat, and what we eat. EAT THE WALLS is a ccberlin cultural project that brings current conversations about environment, politics, and history to the table, connecting them through taste and knowledge. We invite artisans, artists, musicians, designers, activists, and thinkers to share their experiences and work through the lens of territory and the politics involved in it. In this first meeting in the Baix Empordà, we worked with two artisans — one local, one German — exploring our relationship with food and the tools we eat with, through the carving of a spoon.
2023
Diaspora Talk Podcast
Ingrid Schild Estrada is Colombian and was born in the city of Bogotá. She is an architect with a degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She has lived in Germany since 2007 and works in both Berlin and Catalonia.
In her work, she combines architectural projects with the activities of the organization she founded in Berlin 12 years ago.
Roberto Uribe-Castro, who was also born in Bogotá, is a visual artist. Roberto studied architecture in Colombia and Ireland. During and after his studies, he spent time in various parts of Europe until he chose Berlin as his place of residence in 2009.
He holds a Master's degree in Arts from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, specializing in Spatial Strategies. His work mainly explores issues of representation in architecture and public space from a postcolonial perspective.
Through cc_berlin, both have created a platform to promote cultural, social, and academic projects, to preserve traditions, and to strengthen a critical perspective on our interconnectedness as a society.
2022
AMOR REAL Foundation Workshop
Berlin
In the summer of 2022, the Amor Real Foundation and CC Berlin came together in a spirit of mutual support and collaboration. The Amor Real Foundation was invited by NOT____ENOUGH, a collective of Latin American women, to participate in the fashion biennial Fashion as Encounter, organised by the international platform State of Fashion. That year’s edition, held in the Netherlands, focused on the theme Ways of Caringand included a five-week exhibition in the Dutch city of Arnhem.
Following its participation in the Netherlands, the Amor Real Foundation aimed to extend its project to three additional European cities—Berlin, London, and Madrid—through a series of exhibitions, workshops, and artistic collaborations.
EAT the Walls: Social Distancing Table 2021
Our Performance and Talk with Caroline Hobkinson.
In her words:
"After words failed me during the early days of lock down,
I became obsessed with a little illustration in the New Yorker magazine.
It shows 2 people stuck in a table. It accompanies a column that ponders food in the city.
The table is set.
As a food artist and anthropologist, I have been watching in awe as the whole world embarked on the involuntary social experiment that was lock down and all restaurant and food venues closing its doors.
Leaving people to cook and eat at home.
Replacing and imagining the recipes of our childhood.
Getting creative with missing ingredients and baking away the time.
Finding solace and comfort in cooking and eating while arranging virtual dinner parties and cook along.
Rethinking how we eat, when we eat. Forcing families, couples and housemates to eat together.
To bake bread, share dishes, customs and memories.
The rituals and spectacle that food and sharing it offers us. More than just sustenance it is a celebration of who we are.
The most intimate and sensual interaction we can have with our environment. At the table we act out long formed rituals, we break the bread, put down our weapons, trust each other. With 2 m distance. The Social Distancing Table is a response to our new Normal.
Caroline Hobkinson in conversation with Roberto Uribe Castro that has been ongoing. On food, its ritual, power and symbolism.
This table mimics our current state.
One wrong movement puts so much at risk. We can catch COVID 19 by touching the wrong door handle once.
One wrong movement has an impact on someone else.
We can easily infect others.“
