IMBISS: A Working Group - Episode 5: Luxury

The fifth “IMBISS: A Working Group” session, organised by Vita Buivid, will look at the notion of luxury through a true symbol of it: champagne. We will discuss different types of constructions of luxury, — capitalist and communist — while blind testing both original and soviet champagnes. During the workshop, we will produce a notorious “fake champagne” using a soviet time recipe.

Monday 4th of November at 6pm

This event will discuss and serve alcohol. Any guests who are interested in the topic but do not drink alcohol are welcome to join.

IMBISS: A Working Group

“IMBISS: a working group” is a series of study groups, workshops and performances around the kitchen table that think food as that which is simultaneously life sustenance, a cultural ecosystem and a political product. Its curriculum looks at the intersections between eating practices, culinary histories, food production and trade, and global politics.

Each of the series’ sessions will focus on a different food item or practice and open up its political history. They will be looking at how these intersect with colonial histories, global capitalist trade routes, processes of racialisation, gender politics, economic uneven development, histories of revolutionary organising, and others.

This project is being developed with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.