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The Broth
"The broth, every good cook realizes, does not with necessarily follow from a tempting recipe. Inadvertence, accident, and unexpectancy impart a need for vigilance. Here lies a most fertile ground for knowledge. One can trace the origin of almost all art, craft, and science to the kitchen fire."    From Everyday Spirits by David Appelbaum

Tkecnir had been an international collaborative project involving players from various artistic disciplines. Collaborations within PROJECT will utilise elements of Maltese heritage to create new cultural products.
Tkecnir, as an interdisciplinary artistic project, went into Maltese kitchens to explore and document the personal relations of individuals with their kitchens; the things people do in their kitchens, kitchen rituals, the common and uncommon things people keep in their kitchens and the effect of this human-object interaction.

Such a research was used to create other cultural products namely: a series of video documentaries and public screenings, two photographic exhibitions, a wondering theatre performance, a website, a blog, a printed book and a seminar.




Enrico Masseroli, in partnership with the project’s general director Glen Calleja, prepared and played the theatrical performance.

Tkecnir, a double approach to achieve a theatrical performance.

Enrico Masseroli, explained about his work in progress:
From the interviews I collected actions, objects, tools, tales of memories… which had an objective value, considered not for their personal content, but as a source for an universal appeal to be shared. This work is similar to the one of a cold anatomist who is cutting a body to detect its secrets.
But above all, a book inspired me greatly: “Le festin d’immortalité” by Jacques Bonnet with a magnificent preface by Jacqueline Kelen. It was suggested by a friend of mine, very knowledgeable in aesthetic and in religion's studies.
After reading this book I wondered on how to connect or at least to relate the imagined “kitchen work” done for a Convivium or a Symposium (drinking together) with Gods (at least in its spirit), with the Tkecnir Project happening in some modern contemporary Maltese kitchen.
A bridge between two such distant worlds was suggested by Daniel Appelbaum, who states that in kitchen work: “lies a most fertile ground for knowledge”.
So the outcome of my research which is shared through this performance is a journey in 4 stations to connect, in an interlocking and counterpointed art, such a bilateral and extremely wide approach (such an extremely wide twin-view).