Jaha Koo / Campo
Haribo Kimchi
Heart-warming food performance with a talking rice cooker, a snail and an eel about diaspora, home and the healing power of food.
Past dates
8/8/24
7:00 PM
8/9/24
7:00 PM
8/10/24
6:00 PM
8/10/24
9:00 PM
Ghent-based artist Jaha Koo tours the world with his technically meticulous and touching performances about the state of South Korean society. In 2018, he captured the hearts of the Summer Festival audience when he talked about friendship and loneliness with three talking rice cookers in CUCKOO; and in 2020, he humorously and profoundly traced the influence of the Western canon on Korean theater with a remote-controlled origami toad. In HARIBO KIMCHI, his latest stage work, the audience meets lost souls lost souls in a pojangmacha, a typical South Korean snack bar: a YouTuber, an eel, a snail and a rice cooker explore the structure of society through food culture. In several absurd and touching anecdotes, they talk about the diaspora of kimchi culture, cannibalism during the Great Famine, the pain of unabashed racism and the deep umami flavor of their homeland. In a combination of music, video and robotic performers, Jaha Koo reflects on cultural assimilation with all its conflicts and contradictions, while changing the perception of food forever in a performance that plays with all the senses.
