“Finding Home Through Food”

“Finding Home Through Food“
This event unfolds in three parts, bringing together food, film, and a shared table. It invites audiences to reflect on the connections between Taiwan and Poland, touching on themes of climate, migration, memory, and culture. It is approximately 1.5 hours long.

1. Film Screening: Memory Table

Memory Table is a new work by Wu Mali. Wu is a Taipei-born socially engaged artist whose long-term project Tastes of Empire uses food as a lens through which to explore how migration and cultural memory are woven into everyday culinary life.

Having first brought the project to Poland in 2025 through the exhibition Common Landscape / Greeting a Stranger, she returned in 2026 to conduct further field research, developing Memory Table as the Polish chapter of this ongoing transnational inquiry.

The work unfolds through two interwoven narratives: one follows a participatory workshop in which people from different backgrounds gather to make dumplings and share recipes from home; the other moves through local encounters and interviews, collecting personal food memories shaped by movement, displacement, and everyday life. Food becomes a carrier of memory, a language of care, and a sense of home that people carry with them across places.

Duration: approx. 15 min. | Single-channel video

2. Taiwanese and Polish Dumpling Sharing

The event reflects on the shared love of dumplings in both Taiwan and Poland, as well as the distinct histories and cultural meanings they carry in each country. During the event, guests will have the opportunity to taste Taiwanese and Polish dumplings side by side, experiencing the pleasures and unexpected discoveries of cultural exchange through food.3. Emergency Foods for Typhoon Nights

Walking Grass Agriculture is currently participating in the artist-in-residence programme at Arsenal Gallery. Through food and everyday memory, the artists hope to offer Polish audiences a different perspective on Taiwan’s humid subtropical climate and recurring typhoon culture. Rather than focusing solely on canned foods, the workshop centres on the shared memories many Taiwanese families have of emergency meals, eating during blackouts, and improvised home cooking on typhoon days.

The session will also touch on the practice of foraging wild vegetables after storms. When markets become unstable and fresh produce becomes scarce, this knowledge passed down through older generations becomes a way of living alongside the environment. Beginning with preserved foods, blackout experiences, and local memory, the workshop invites participants to reflect on how climate conditions shape food culture and collective perception.

Participants will also be able to create their own silkscreen prints on napkins using stencils prepared by the artists.

Han-Sheng, Chen

Born in 1988 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chen Han-Sheng graduated from the Taipei National University of Arts. He is a member of Walking Grass Agriculture. His practice includes experimental animation and mixed-media kinetic installations, often incorporating elements of personal history and identity. His work frequently explores themes of agriculture, nature, and the coexistence of humans and the environment.

Hsing-You, Liu

Born in 1985 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, LiuHsing-You holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from National Kaohsiung Normal University. His work revolves around themes of agriculture, ecology, and gender equality. For Liu, photography functions both as a creative method and as a participatory medium, engaging audiences with these issues through a thoughtful yet playful approach. As an artist, art critic, curator, and co-founder of Walking Grass Agriculture, Liu actively works with diverse audiences, challenges conventional perspectives, and explores the unique qualities of different media.