Koffie Smaakt Naar Koffie: Koffieritueel & boekpresentatie van Proyecto Cocuyo. Credits: Framer Framed Proyecto Cocuyo's coffee tasting workshop and book presentation at Werkplaats Molenwijk
It was a busy morning on 28 October 2024 in Werkplaats Molenwijk, where the Molenwijk community came together for a coffee tasting experience organised by artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán. The event, named Coffee Tastes Like Coffee, also included the launch of their publication Cocuyo, which they developed during their residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Coffee tastes like coffee – Tomimori and Guzmán give an explanation. Credits: Framer Framed
Roughly fifteen participants were invited to delve into a sensory interaction with the smell, aroma, flavours, associations and connotations of the different coffees Tomimori and Guzmán brought with them. One of these included the coffee Cocuyo, created by the artists as part of their project Proyecto Cocuyo. While the community smelled and tasted the different coffees, the artists read from their book Cocuyo, a publication project which resulted from their residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The publication compiles texts, images and memories about their time creating the Cocuyo art residency and becoming coffee farmers in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Coffee tastes like coffee – Taste and smell description by one of the participants. Credits: Framer Framed
Curator and researcher Elham Puriya Mehr joined the coffee tasting. Her visit marked the end of her residency as a guest researcher at Framer Framed. Puriya Mehr was investigating coffeehouses in the Netherlands and their potential as learning environments as part of her ongoing project The Third Space: The Affective Atmosphere of Coffeehouses. Her contribution this Monday morning included a gentle reminder of the process and history behind each cup we consume, and how the brewed beverage creates a code in our bodies that brings back memories every subsequent time we its smell or taste: “the smell of coffee can bring you back to an old memory of your mother giving you a hug.”
The Cocuyo book is a bilingual publication in English and Spanish. The artworks and photographs were made by Proyecto Cocuyo members and previous artists-in-residence Nicolas Baresch, Tania Fuentes & Camilo Cuervo, Andrea Marín, Álvaro Cabrejo, Karen Moya and Andrés Salas. Other contributors include Emily Shin-Jie Lee, Sylvia Suárez and Tania Fuentes. it was published by Jan van Eyck Academie Printing & Publishing Lab and is now available in our bookshop.
Coffee tastes like coffee – Conversation with Tomimori, Guzmán and Puriya Mehr on the left. Credits: Framer Framed
Werkplaats Molenwijk is made possible in part by de Alliantie, Amsterdam City Council/Stadsdeel Noord, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Agenda
Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk
Screening of Retazos Móviles, a documentary about resistance, migration and collective memories through the Arpilleras textile tradition
Autumn Field Trip to IDFA: The Brink of Dreams
Trip with Werkplaats Molenwijk to The Brink of Dreams, a documentary about women who form a street theatre group in Egypt
Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Molenwijk Textile Memories
Practical workshop series on female textile heritage in Werkplaats Molenwijk
Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo
A coffee tasting workshop and the book launch of Cocuyo, by artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán of Proyecto Cocuyo at Werkplaats Molenwijk
Curatorial Talk: Elham Puriya Mehr on Coffeehouses as Emancipatory Learning Atmospheres
Curatorial talk with research resident Elham Puriya Mehr, who presents her research into coffeehouses as emancipatory learning atmospheres
Launch of LOOK: An Interactive Investigation Into Eye Contact
Presentation of an interactive audio installation and podcast on eye contact by Prosper de Roos at Werkplaats Molenwijk
Wish Talisman Workshop
A ceramics workshop especially for women in the Molenwijk neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord
Opening: Vrij Atelier
Weekly drop-in workshop for and by the Molenwijk
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