A collection of recipe card sets filled out by participants of the DD project.

Each set contains three unique cards  that guide storytelling chefs through the imaginative process of dreaming up their own diaspora dumpling. 


Please ︎ contact the artist to contribute your story-based recipe to the archive!

Filed under:
dd, participatory, social practice, food, diaspora

︎︎︎Coming Soon: Full Gallery: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive

This installation is the first adaptation of the Diaspora Dumplings project for a gallery setting. Titled Diaspora Dumpling Potluck 001 (Tableau + Artifacts), the work presents the project in two ways: first, it gives a glimpse of the pilot Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party (held in September 2024), and second, invites exhibition visitors to co-author the DD project by contributing their own set of story-based recipes to the archive.

Exhibited in EXperimental at Box13 ArtSpace January - Februrary 2025.

Filed under:
dd, installation, exhibition, food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston

︎︎︎Coming Soon: Gallery: Diaspora Dumpling Recipe Archive

At the Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party, eight participants shared the edible results of their exploration of the richness of food as medium.

Each guest chef was challenged to invent, prepare, and share their very own diaspora dumpling, defined as “an inventive, cross-cultural food item made to be eaten in multiples—necessarily composed of a mixed filling that is wrapped in dough before being cooked. An edible medium for sharing who you are and where you come from.”

Filed under:
dd, food, sculpture, diaspora, participatory, social practice, houston

TASAWAR TRANSCULTURAL TALKS (TTT)
Curatorial
2021

A two-day online conference discussing curatorial positions informed by “cultural disorders.” Panels formed by curators from Tunisia, Mexico, USA, and Turkey discuss artistic and curatorial practices as tools of resistance and crafting a more equitable future.

Filed under:
curatorial, international, online, workshops, social practice

Queer Code
Online Workshops
2020

The online workshop “Queer Code: LGBTIQ+ Language in Tunisia and Beyond" opened dialogue about queer identity and expression in Tunisia.

Through both the local and global lens, led by creative writing and drawing exercises, international participants discussed the local chakchouka of language and lexicon.

Where do certain words come from? How do we use them and why?

Filed under:
tunis, queer, online, social practice, workshops, language, collab, participatory

︎︎︎See: iel elle a7na kreyek tunisien.ne