Cooking (for) the Future

CIFRA presents at Ars Electronica a series of community building activities, “Cooking (for) the Future.” We opened a temporary kitchen in Linz — the CIFRA Space — where recipes become methods and shared cooking turns into a language of care and resistance. Join us in Linz to cook what’s hard to swallow, to carry home workable rituals of care, and to collect recipes for a future already simmering on the stove. This playlist lays the table for that conversation. Here, cooking is method, not dish: language slow-simmered, roles whipped to foam, home smoked with memory, assistance plated as mutual technology. In Popo Fan’s Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche, the kitchen becomes a classroom where grammar is breathed like scent — belonging taught by taste. Jemima Burrill’s How to Make a Man whisks gender clichés until they collapse, a froth where certainty once stood. Mónica Rikić’s Somoure offers robotics as a utensil of care, a steady hand learning where to ladle warmth into emptiness. Shahar Marcus’s Golda holds bread as biography — history broken by hand and shared. Katarzyna Kozyra’s HOME TRILOGY keeps domesticity on a low, revealing the everyday as a stage for power, vulnerability, and play. Maricel Reinhard’s A Meal for the Rest of Your Life sets a table that outlasts a season, care working like a preservative for time. Two works on the Anthropocene extend the menu toward survival — conservation turning political, substitution ethical, rewilding mnemonic. A closing trio lingers like an aftertaste: a trace of scarcity’s bitterness, the salt of the common pot, the small and necessary sweetness of acts we can repeat. Bring an appetite; we’ll tend the flame. Let’s cook the future together, shoulder to shoulder at the shared stove.