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Cologne Design Festival 2009: Passagen: Global Street Food

By Brit Leissler - January 23, 2009

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A very intriguing exhibition of the Cologne Passagen was Mike Mike Meires "Global Street Food", showing a great number of various street kitchens from all over the world which were researched and purchased over more than one year. "Complex minimalisation makes it possible to think about other processes" describes Meire his fascination with street food kitchens. Pictured above: street food stands from the United States and China.

After The Farm Project, Global Street Food is Mike Meires current installation for the Dornbracht Edges series of exhibitions. In contrast to The Farm Project, this new project is not about the domestic kitchen as the stage of life; it is about improvised kitchens set up in public spaces - in and on the streets.

A beautiful oasis of authenticity in the middle of the glossy design world wonderland and a great location to become aware of what kind of kitchen one really needs for one's respective lifestyle.

From left to right: Street food stands from Argentinia, Namibia and Vietnam.

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Steve MacNeil

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Re. the Global Street Foods project
How aesthetic, how exotic, how poor! I can't help feeling uncomfortable about this - is this not just an extreme form of cultural tourism? ...splashing out the highly tempting dollar but taking away the means of making a living? ... taking something that is useful, productive and intrinsically part of a street culture and creating a Western Museum display of it all! Surely a more ethical approach would be to document in photographs? Or now that the food traders no longer have their food carts perhaps you could ship them over too to make some tasty food for the tired gallery going public...? If I thought the artist was being antagonistic it might be interesting but somehow I think the words 'point' and 'missed' are more likely in this case!
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