Live, cook, work, a home: the fitted kitchen. Joonas Lahtinen’s interactive work «EIN.KÜCHEN.BAU» is installation, performance and discursive place all in one. How do we live in fitted kitchens, how do we cook and work in there, and how do the inhabitants make it their home? With audio-visual material on political and aesthetic dimensions of the kitchen the installation opens up multi-layered spaces of association regarding our daily routines.
With her «Frankfurter Küche» (Frankfurt Kitchen) (1926), the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky created the basics for the modern mass produced kitchen. Her emancipatory goal: the rational order of normed and affordable furniture should help housewives to save time and energy in their chores such that they can have more time for other dimensions of life.
«EIN.KÜCHEN.BAU» tells the history and stories of the fitted kitchen. «EIN.KÜCHEN.BAU» is constructed live in front of the audience and will remain accessible throughout the Freischwimmer Festival. The installation changes continuously and is enlivened through various interventions by the performer Joonas Lahtinen.
