Archipelago

ARCHIPELAGO is a performative event incorporating art and culinary experience that will bring you to Indonesia through one memorable evening. It will be an event where the food and culture enthusiasts experience the evening where they can taste authentic Indonesian food and enjoy its multi-sensory, audio-visual performance, and Indonesian traditional dance. This event will be the first collaboration between the two Indonesian femalepreneurs based in Zürich.

As part of FOOD ZURICH 2023, Sendok Garpu Zürich and Foodtivism came up with an event titled “ARCHIPELAGO” as our response to the current Festival Theme “KULINARISCHE ZUKUNFT”.

Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country and with an estimated over 17,000 islands, 1,300 tribes, 300 local languages, its diversity is what makes the country. “ARCHIPELAGO” or Nusantara (in Bahasa Indonesia) is about a view into the future: What does the future mean for us (especially the Indonesian diaspora)? What kind of identity will the future generation have, what kind of food that the future generation will eat? how can they comfort the value of the past, the present and the future?

We, two Indonesian femalepreneurs, new thinkers, are excited on our first collaboration to present our creative culinary art which based on our philosophy: “Go to the future by going back to the roots.” At this event we will present the re-creation of some authentic Indonesian dishes into innovative-modern presentations using mostly locally sourced ingredients. Beyond what we serve on the plate at the event, with the medium of audio- visual performance, we are telling the story behind every dish and showing our traditional culinary rituals such as fermenting tempeh. You will also enjoy the performance of our intangible cultural heritage “Indonesian traditional dance”.

Organizers:

Ayu – Sendok Garpu Zurich

Lidya – Foodtivism