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DATE:
APR 2024
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale

Ang Pagluluto sa Linamnam ng Alaala


Cooking from a Migrant Memory



LOCATION:
RUH, KSA




Image courtesy of Diriyah Biennale Foundation


Diriyah Contemporary
Art Biennale 2024

April 25 to 27
JAX District, Diriyah
Saudi Arabia

Commissoned by
Diriyah Biennale Foundation F‭ilipinos love to eat and cook — we eat communally and gather over food to laugh, reminisce, and be together. For Filipino migrants, cooking is a poetic performance that often involves nostalgia and memory. Cooking their favorite meal from home while abroad becomes a symbol of remembrance, comfort, and adaptation to a foreign land.

For the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, Sa Tahanan Collective (STC) presents a Filipino diaspora culinary project, titled Ang Pagluluto sa Linamnam ng Alaala (Cooking from a Migrant Memory). Consisting of this Filipino cookbook and a storytelling-cooking performance, we invite 6 Filipino curators, artists, and cultural producers from the diaspora to share a personal Filipino recipe that ties them back to ‘home’ or their ‘Filipinoness’. These recipes tell of its maker’s history, narrating migrant stories of longing, desire, misplacement, and missing. They serve as an embodiment of their migratory journeys — and this project explores how these recipes have evolved, or been adapted based on the ingredient offerings of their respective migratory geographies.

The performance combines cooking and storytelling, inviting audiences to commune at Palan & Pakghor, an outdoor installation by Dhaka-based artist-run non-profit collective Britto Arts Trust. Each performance highlights two recipes from the cookbook. The audience will witness Anna Bernice and Augustine recreate and cook the recipes, while an audio interview of the respective contributors play simultaneously for the audiences to listen to. The audience then gets to taste and experience their meals in a Filipino-style salu-salo.

This project also catalyzes an ongoing parallel ethnographic research project on the role of food and communal eating within the Filipino diaspora in Riyadh, which began in March 2024 through informal interviews with Filipinos living in Riyadh and the exploration of Riyadh’s Filipino cuisine and neighborhoods.




Image courtesy of Diriyah Biennale Foundation

Curatorial Concept
Anna Bernice delos Reyes
Augustine Paredes

Contributors
James Clar
Stephanie Comilang
Alexis Convento
Renan Laru-an
Jou Pabalate
Ayman Tamano

Acknowledgements
Mashael Alsaie
Sybel Vasquez

Visual Research: Filipino Restaurants
and Supermarkets
in Riyadh

Photographs by
Anna Bernice delos Reyes




Printed Matter
Illustration, Design, and Publishing
by Augustine Paredes