TAFEL is a collective project by Neri De Meester and Maud Gyssels.
The name is Dutch for ‘table’, referring to one of the most common types of furniture, to a table of content and to a bearer for unfinished, incomplete and in-between things and thoughts, opposite to what’s usually presented on a wall. The project started as a website: a virtual table to value certain subjects and objects without forgetting the continuous instability and shifting of their meaning and image.
Besides TAFEL organizes conceptual and performative dinners, named SOUPER. Alike the website they transform, expand or exchange at any moment. It is a hybrid form for real matters and encounters. This multifunctional table is a starting point for collective moments in specific contexts.
The aim is to create shared moments to eat, work, write, draw, listen, sew, sleep, discuss, laugh and be surprised. Food is the motor for play and inspiration, but is also used to deceive and question normative culinary practices.
Concerned about what and how to eat, we care for moments to nurture the body and each other.
Most of all TAFEL connects the things we love.
CONTACT US
neri@tafeltafel.com
maud@tafeltafel.com
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