Two Recipes, 2023
The red bean soup recipes* is one of the recipes my mom sent me and I never did it with her.
The taro cake is from I-Chien’s family memory which she never had by herself.
We cooked it at the door of the space and in the end we didn’t share them with people there celebrating Lunar New Year.
A performance by I-Chien Chen and Zhuyan Ye **
Sound Installation by I-Chien Chen
Videographer by Clara M. Emery
6018|North, 6018 N Kenmore Ave Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
*
紅豆洗淨瀝水後，裝入保鮮盒中密封入冰箱冷凍四個小時以上，最好隔夜凍。次日取出放入鍋中煮大約30分鐘就變得軟爛了。
Gege 煮紅豆的時候gege jiaojiaojiaojiao gege sei yao du ba di
du ba di sao wei du ba di
dei si yei ci xi ya fe you ba de ta du
du ba di
re er ne du huo sao kai le
ne xu yong xao hu sao
si jie fe yi di si se si fen zong
ku nen bi gege si jien sao wei zang xing
dang zong ya kan yie ji er
Rugogege
jiaojiaojiaojiao
rugosui fo gei
ne zai ga di qing sei
xiao de a
那就用砂鍋
紅豆煮開了，要小火煮，期間要經常用鏟子翻一下
**
i) I muted the documentation and screenshot the moment I like visually. I wished I had done something in the performance and
one minute later I found I actually did it. (我期待我會用手捏芋頭，但我忘記了我真的這樣做了。)
ii) Someone came to me at the very beginning of the performance and I didn’t answer their question. The rest of the performance I was occasionally thinking of that
moment and guessing theri age, gender and appearance
iii) My favorite action is my putting the vase next to Clara’s on the floor. In my dialect, we call this relative position in space 貼
iiii) I guess I-Chien would say one of her favorites is she found everyone was eating the nuts on the ground. If not, I do apologize.
iiiii) I did two things unexpected: laughing and breaking one vase.