Drifting Tongues: Food Languages Beyond the White Cube

Sharing | 𝒟𝓇𝒾𝒻𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒯𝑜𝓃𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈: 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝐵𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒞𝓊𝒷𝑒

  “An artist who works with food?”

Within the White Cube of museums and galleries—where eating is prohibited and art is look-but-don’t-touch—the body’s sensory experience is often excluded from the act of viewing.

Lo Yu-Chi’s work does exactly the opposite. For her, the dining table is the space for making art. Her practice rolls out in farmers’ granaries, old wet markets, and Indigenous villages. In this casual talk, Yu-Chi will share her journey navigating this unconventional path—sharing how she translates deep, hyper-local food cultures into site-responsive sculptures, performances, and community projects.  

Fruit Party | 𝒩𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝐹𝓇𝓊𝒾𝓉! 

Yu-Chi wants to close out the talk with a bit of immediate fieldwork. She’s bringing a selection of Malaysian fruits that are completely new to her. Think of it as a rojak of collective memories, you are invited to sit down, taste them together, share how you eat them, swap kitchen stories, and build a live archive of local taste together.

July 3, 2026 (Fri)
8:30– 10:30PM
📍Dou Houz (10D, Jalan Panggong, KL)

Pay-as-you-wish donation
 (RM15–30 recommended)
*Your contribution will help cover the cost of fruits and event preparation

Registration: https://forms.gle/85ovbn6REksEPmfCA  

Artist: Lo Yu Chi

Works primarily with food as her creative medium, developing a distinctive “food language” rooted in her lived experiences and transforming the act of eating into a way of engaging in dialogue with the world. Through her travels and research into diverse food cultures, she observes the relationships between people and land, as well as the traces history leaves within everyday life. As a Taiwanese artist, she reflects on the island’s layered colonial histories and the intertwining of its diverse cultural traditions. Through cooking, sharing meals, and food-based artistic practices, she investigates how culture, memory, and environment shape the texture of human experience, and how people come to understand themselves and their surroundings through the act of eating.

Moderator: Lian Kian Lek

A Kuala Lumpur-based multidisciplinary artist and architect whose practice explores the intersections of memory, heritage, and spatial narrative. A set designer and brand designer for art festivals, his work spans interior design, curation, and digital art. After fourteen years living in Berlin, he returned to Malaysia to establish putticoop design studio. He is also a member of the Nowhere Kitchen, an art project centered on cooking with leftovers. As a creative practitioner, Kian integrates his experiences with deep research into Malaysian craftsmanship and architectural history. Often drawing from the intimate histories of Petaling Street, his evocative works—including the long-running Fata Morgana—bridge personal identity with the shifting landscapes of urban transformation.

Venue sponsor: Dou Houz
Program support: @dadadada.studio, @liewcheeheai, @liankianlek, COEX
Poster Design: @imkjin