Willem Schenk’s (Hengelo, The Netherlands, 1991) Culture à la carte is a series of interventions designed to mitigate our capitalist surroundings. The events arise from collaborations with autonomous artists and designers who are working around socially engaged topics such as trust, labor and minorities. Through a series of interventions such as outdoor cooking, Schenk aims to discover a new role for art and design. Events arise from a need for resilient communities who need emphatic models to survive. Ideas are open source and applicable on fleeting places in our daily life such as independently owned bars, salons and shops. Schenk asks which new traditions can be scripted for these institutions and how we can learn and expand on the values they bring to the table.

Collaboration(s): Simpson Tse