Die Fettecke #1/3
Cooking With Artists

John Cage: Macrobiotic Mushroom Paté

For the Darmstadt Summer Course 2020, composer and curator Lars Petter Hagen conceived “Die Fettecke”, a cooking workshop for music students, drawing inspiration from Korean Temple Food, the Olafur Eliasson Studio Kitchen and ideas by Joseph Beuys, John Cage and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. As the Summer Course is postponed to 2021, Lars Petter made an adapted small scale version of the cooking class where he interprets two recipes by John Cage and one by Joseph Beuys.
The starting point for “Die Fettecke” was Joseph Beuys’ interest in cooking and his idea of “the practice of art as an integral process of perception and cognition in which everyone should participate and actively intervene in changing society”, as the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt describes it. 50 years ago, in April 1970, Joseph Beuys installed his “Block Beuys” in seven rooms of Hessisches Landesmuseum, which is the largest authentic complex of Beuys’ works in the world.