The Kinship Cookbook is an ongoing proposition to gather, speculate, and share knowledge around the forming of inclusive infrastructures using recipes as a curatorial and artistic methodology. Emerging from the intersection of feminist and queer practices of care, it situates the act of recipe making as both a poetic and political gesture, a means to collectively imagine worlds grounded in empathy, reciprocity, and mutual becoming.

Rooted in gatherings that merge the domestic and the speculative, the project uses the format of the recipe as a vessel for storytelling, reflection, and coauthorship. Each gathering revolves around a theme that invites participants to contribute through personal narratives, performative gestures, and symbolic ingredients. Over time, these recipes accumulate into a living collective manifesto, a body of knowledge that grows organically through shared experience, conversation, and ritual.

The cookbook challenges traditional societal and institutional norms by redefining authorship and participation. It proposes a shift from the object oriented to the process oriented, from the hierarchical to the horizontal, from the singular artist’s voice to a constellation of kin. The recipes, while often nonculinary, act as metaphors for healing, remembering, and worldbuilding, encouraging participants to rethink how we live and create together.

The installation of The Kinship Cookbook extends this ethos into a spatial form. Using emergent kinships as prototypes for the visualization of the recipes, it invites the audience into a multisensory environment, one that grows, transforms, and responds over time. This world building gesture materializes care and kindness as aesthetic principles, allowing the work to breathe as a living, evolving ecosystem.