Tar for Mortar

On the 29th of September, an artist collective Comfort Ball in a collaborative installation with Alex Zamora, will give a performative food workshop at Framer Framed where we will experiment a traditional dessert making technique from East Asia in a possible scenario of food shortage.

Climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world’s food supply as a warming atmosphere intensifies the world’s droughts, flooding, heatwaves and wildfires. With its long lasting ingredients, a traditional East Asian dessert from the 11th century called Dasik can be an important food heritage to look at in these unexpected times.

Dasik’s literal translation is tea food, a bite-size dessert that is made with dried grain or nuts such as rice, soybeans, sesame seeds in a powder form mixed with a bit of honey or grain syrup.

In this workshop, by only using mortar and pestle, participants will learn how to make this traditional East Asian dessert, while listening to the stories of Comfort Ball’s childhood, history of bread in East Asia by tackling the process of westernisation, food shortage crisis of our time or in a speculative futuristic narrative.

This event is FREE and in ENGLISH. We have limited space. Please register via Eventbrite to join this workshop. We will provide all the ingredients.

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Photo Credit: Oat Sankrit Kulmanochawong