Live performance with Valentina Karga
(in English)

Special Guest: Simon Johnson

Cannibalism, one could provocatively argue, regulates resources by reducing population numbers of the same species that compete for the same resources. One of the many uncomfortable situations we are faced with nowadays derives from the interruption of matter’s life cycle due to the life and material needs of humans that do not respect the needs of the more-than-human world. ‘The table that eats itself’ is not just any cannibal. It is a cannibal that understands the necessity and urgency to return matter back to the dark pot of the life-cycle offering its own matter to this cause.

The life of a self-eating table invites us to an embodied session: We will be feeding ourselves simultaneously with the self-eating table, communing our bodies and its body through feelings and reflections on digestion processes, and we will ask: Which needs are substantial for life and which are not? What is there to learn from and with this friendly self-cannibal?