- How to Eat Plastic
- Layers of Care
- Lofofora
- Touching: A Research Method in Art and Design
- And Sometimes I Just Feel Like Melting
- Theatre Kikker
- (M)eet de Plastics
- It’s Plastic Bitch!
- From the Womb to Fake Tits
- De Plasticene
- Bioplastic Cooking Workshop
- MAAT Cosmetics
How to Eat Plastic is an artistic and gastronomic investigation into the material, cultural, and ecological entanglements of plastics. Since their invention, plastics have shifted from being heralded as revolutionary substitutes for scarce materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell to becoming symbols of overconsumption and environmental degradation. Today, they permeate every ecosystem, infiltrating air, water, soil, and bodies — human and non-human alike. This ubiquity positions plastics as both indispensable and catastrophic, simultaneously enabling modern life and threatening its futures.
This project engages critically with that paradox. By translating the language of plastic into the framework of a multi-course meal, How to Eat Plastic stages a series of edible metaphors through which the narratives of pollution, transformation, and resilience can be experienced sensorially. The recipes employ bioplastics, fermentation processes, and waste-derived materials, positioning them as speculative alternatives to petrochemical plastics. Dishes are presented on and with biomaterial cutlery and plates fabricated from food waste and natural dyes, extending the inquiry into the infrastructures that support eating itself.
Though the consumption of plastics and their effects on our bodies can be a potentially frightening idea. Rather than rejecting or fearing this reality, the recipes in this project propose a radical embrace: refiguring plastics as edible, malleable, and potentially nourishing. Through the use of bioplastics as sustainable alternatives, the project generates experimental and sculptural dishes that explore themes of waste, transformation, sustainability, and nourishment. Each dish functions simultaneously as meal and metaphor, revealing how food culture — like plastic — carries stories of history, survival, and adaptation.
The imagined menu is both speculative and critical. It looks toward a future in which plastics are so abundant that they define cuisine itself: where generations might incorporate waste materials to create plastics, or create single use plastics which can be eaten instead of becoming waste, creating alternative ways of living. In this sense, the project stages plastics not only as pollutants but also as materials with plasticity — capable of being re-rooted in processes of tactility, creativity, and sustainability.
The publication documents these processes, recipes, and reflections. It does not seek to offer solutions, but rather to provoke new ways of engaging with plasticity as concept, material, and metaphor. By inviting readers to imagine and enact the act of “eating plastic,” the project opens a critical space for considering how materials shape futures — and how alternative practices might allow us to remake them.