Cashmere Specials ER3ATZ invites Cooking with Mama

The Hamburg-based collective and DJ crew ER3ATZ returns to Cashmere Radio for the second time with a special Friday program.

Featuring a talk show dedicated to the project Cooking with Mama, a series of community encounters in Berlin and beyond that weaves personal and collective hi/stories often underrepresented, erased or overlooked. The gatherings reflect on memory, transgenerational and local knowledge, decoloniality, and resistance through food and cooking across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Northern and Central Asia, creating a site of care and transnational solidarity. These gatherings have been organized by Maryna Markova (koopkultur e.V.), Tanja Sokolnykova (Political Kitchen) and Mariia Vorotilina, and stand as a homage to the initiative of the artist Hiwa K of the same name.

Guests

Tanja Sokolnykova – an arts educator, facilitator, and intersectional feminist engaged in creating spaces of solidarity and decolonial transformation. Tanja’s perspective is informed by an upbringing in the South-East of Ukraine in a mixed Ukrainian–Russian–Mari family, and later migration experience to Germany. 

Mariia Vorotilina – is a curator, cultural manager, and activist from Ukraine, currently based in Germany. Her work lies at the intersection of arts, theory, and activism, approached from queer-feminist and decolonial perspectives. Mariia engages with topics such as translocal solidarities in complex political contexts, practices of care, the notion of “Eastern Europe” as an invented concept, and the Western gaze on the region.

Saltanat Shoshanova – a queer feminist activist and researcher from Kazakhstan.

Umtata – a performer and cultural mediator, who was behind the Cooking with Mama edition dedicated to Roma cultures.

Article mentioned: Cooking with Mama: Recipes from unearthed (home)lands in AWC#2 (pp. 32-46), Tanja Sokolnykova, Mariia Vorotilina