The intention of the book is to offer a comprehensive view of the different concepts and ways of thinking of project authors in today's society as well as a complete anthology of separate events, happenings and sub-projects that have been implemented under the same concept since 2013.

The commissioned texts in the book form an important part of artistic discourse, serve as a source of information, become the inspiration for further artistic creation and its critical reflection. The Kitchen Dialogues project has been the result of Bobrikova & de Carmens collaboration to develop a body of work around the notions of value and power that governs politics in the economic and social spheres. Some of the works in the Kitchen Dialogues project have reflected on consumer habits, showcasing that the common capitalist idea of growth is not sustainable in our contemporary globalized world. The project concentrates on building community through food and cooking. The aim of their interventions is to explore the possibilities of creating a new social ecosystem.
The book emphasises on works evidencing the excessive growth that has emerged in the present market society from unbridled production, monopolizing all sectors of life. https://bobrikovadecarmen.org/news/kitchen-dialogues-book/

The presentation is supported by Oslo Kommune.

Bobrikova & de Carmen are an artist duo that over the past 16 years has been working collaboratively and, as part of their art practice, have been balancing between different roles as cultural operators, artists, curators, educators and humans. They are interested in mediating the experience of art and culture itself; to build up and mediate new collective practices, understandings and engagements. As artists, they also pursue moments of critical thinking, self-curating, self-organizing, self-publishing, self-(re)presentation and self-organized imagination.

MaryClaire Pappas is a PhD Candidate at Indiana University specializing in modern European Art, with an emphasis on Scandinavian paintings, prints, and drawings. Her larger research interests include gender and modernism, and ideas of the self in modernist culture. MaryClaire holds an MA degree from Queen's University and has previously worked developing a public sculptural program at Indiana University, and on the Catalogue Raisonné project for Edvard Munch's drawings at the Munch Museum.

Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius (Vilnius, LT) is a curator, writer and researcher whose focus was gradually shifting from photography in the expanded field to media art & theory and lately to artistic research in academia and beyond. He is running several BA/MA/PhD programmes at Vilnius Academy of Arts and used to be artistic director of Nida Art Colony (2010-2019).

Charlotte Bagger Brandt has many years of experience as a curator, debater, lecturer, moderator, developer and facilitator in the artistic and cultural field. She works as an art consultant for Statens Kunstfond, for various art organizations and for private builders. She sits on several boards in the art world and is a mentor to younger visual artists. Charlotte’s focus is to provide space for art as a field of knowledge that can help to create change, both in close everyday life and in larger structural contexts. She created Råderum – office for contemporary art.

Aristides Santana, born in Canary Islands currently based in Switzerland. He is a multifaceted art professional with international experience for over more than 12 years. He held various positions from being a curator, art critic, gallery director, to being an artist himself and is momentarily working as lead-tech for a well-known art gallery in St. Moritz.