Dial-in Dinner Collective (DDC) is an art collective that co-founded remotely by Alberta Leung (United Kingdom, Hong Kong), Eugene Park (South Korea), Florence Lam (Canada, Hong Kong) and Weera-it Ittiteerarak (Thailand, Hong Kong) in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. They met the year before at the cooking workshop co-leaded by Martha Rosler and Rirkrit Tiravanija from the Tai Kwun Summer Institute. Despite the cooking process becoming more complex since all the members are amateur cooks, it is a group of people who are generally working together towards the same goal (making a dish) that makes the process ‘easier’. Although there are different cultures in cookery from each region, the highly intense labour in food preparation evokes a sense of companionship. It is through the participation of the labour of cooking that performs an egalitarian dynamic.
BEHIND THE RECIPES
ALBERTA LEUNG (UK/HK)
Curator
Alberta Leung is a Hong Kong and London-based independent curator and researcher. Her interest spans in digital identity and creation in art, science and technology.
Keyword of recent projects/researches: sleep/insomnia in the post-capitalist society, digital migration, futuristic imaginary
EUGENE PARK (KR)
Curator
Eugene Park is a Korean curator, writer, translator who practices the methodologies of radical imaginaries within the visual culture. She is interested in learning/unlearning performativities that intersect in different times and spaces.
Keywords of recent projects include decoloniality in Asia, science fiction, intersectionality studies, curatorial studies.
FLORENCE LAM (HK/IS)
Artist
Florence Lam, born in 1992 in Vancouver, Canada and is currently based in Hong Kong. Lam works with wonder and magical thinking to fuse together current moral issues with child-like world views through performance art, poetry, video and sound. She obtained her MA Fine Art from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2017 and her BA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2014.
Lam has performed around Europe and Asia, including Hidden Space (Hong Kong 2021); 1a space (Hong Kong 2020); Nanhai Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan 2019); Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan 2019), MACRO Testattio Mattatoio Art Museum (Rome, Italy 2018), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík, Iceland 2018), Manifesta 11 (Zürich, Switzerland 2016) etc. Art festivals include A! Performance Festival (Akureyri, Iceland 2019), YUP Festival (Osnabrück, Germany 2019), ZABIH Performance Festival (Lviv, Ukraine 2019), Reykjavík Arts Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland 2019), Performance Platform Lublin (Lublin, Poland 2017), Sequences Art Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland 2017), Performance Art Bergen Open (Bergen, Norway, 2017) etc.
WEERA-IT ITTITEERARAK (TH/HK)
Artist, Graphic Designer
Weera-it Ittiteerarak (วรี ะอทิ ธิ อทิ ธธิ รี รักษ์) is also known as itit (b. 1994) is a Hong Kong-based interdisciplinary artist. As Hong Kong-born-Thai, itit has a rich cross-cultural background that allows him to develop unique sensitives that nurture through his surroundings artistically and scientifically. itit interests span in environmental, psychiatric and sustainability of the human and non-human relationships. He focuses on the effectiveness of light that relates to human well-being and creating artificial and natural creation through various mediums.
itit has a huge interest in art and science, the traditional medium does not bound his practice. He diagnosed as in PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified) in 2015; he transforms his sensitivities of senses in his artistic practice by triggering the human sensations through sound, light, and smell. His installation artworks gain recognition from the university and local government.