This workshop invites us to gather around a shared mat or table – eating together, preparing together or simply being together – as a way to explore how care, belonging and access are created through Southeast Asian cultural practices. Often quiet and unspoken, these values can offer insights into how we relate, host and collaborate in our artistic work.
Using food as both method and metaphor, we’ll pay attention to the small, relational gestures that shape inclusion: how we may prepare, offer, how we listen and adapt. who prepares, who offers, who listens, who adapts. Participants are invited to engage with yellow food – prepared, shared or eaten – as a gesture of presence, tied to Yasmine’s evolving ‘yellow persona’.
Together, we’ll reflect on what relational access looks and feels like in practice and begin shaping shared language and principles for how we host, plan and care for others in creative and cultural spaces. This will be the starting point for a framework of relational access informed by Southeast Asian practices.
Yasmine Aminanda (b. 1997) is currently undertaking part-time practice-based research for the MA Performance and Society at Central Saint Martins, reflecting on their everyday artistic practice. Working in monthly blocks, they explore their broader practice – how it grows through process, shared making, and the value of encounters, all woven through conversations. For Yasmine, thinking happens through doing, and conversations spark these actions. At present, they are paying special attention to the quieter, often overlooked moments within their practice.
Through Performance, Time-Based Media and Archive as Moving Image, Yasmine investigates themes of time, stillness and the everyday. They incorporate journals, inner monologues and process documentation as forms of ‘everyday performance.’
An InTransit alumni, Yasmine has exhibited and performed widely across Malaysia, Indonesia, and London. Notable exhibitions include the National Visual Arts Gallery of Kuala Lumpur (2017), Maybank National Gallery, Lux Moving Image Festival (2022), Christie’s (2023) and Grey Gallery (2023), as well as performances with Tate Exchange and Live Art Development Agency (both 2019).
Nearest station: Hornsey train station (10 mins walk) / Turnpike Lane Underground (15 mins walk)
This workshop is part of Celina Loh’s (In Transit Space CIC) ongoing research that uses Southeast Asian communal practice of eating together as a methodology to investigate how relational approaches can enrich UK structural access frameworks, fostering togetherness, mutual hospitality and belonging.
Please note, this workshop is by invitation only.
