Riet Wijnen: Suitcase Economy

The third edition of Tools for Conviviality continues our ongoing work to reimagine our ground-floor bookstore, café, and event space as an active, responsive environment for public life.

The new iteration titled Suitcase Economy is an experimental canteen developed by artist Riet Wijnen with collaborators: Linda van Deursen, Waysatta Fernández with Salvador Núñez from Mono Rojo, Jari Nuno / Fat Crayon Creative, Ima-Abasi Okon and Jan Wijnen. Considering time and place through various relationships, the canteen is shaped by an informal economy around food products. Used and shared during meals, workshops and study sessions, these food products are also ingredients for extending a methodology of transformation occurring during preservation and fermentation as a way to think about history, territory, networks, and relationships.