Cyborg and Boniches : Propositions to queer the kitchen space
13.09.25 · 18h
Language : FR
15+
TW : Mentions of violence against women (more details at the beginning of the conference)
Duration: 1h15
Place: Riches-Claires
You sometimes hear the old slogan at feminist demonstrations: “Who’s going to do the washing up? We’re making the revolution!”. As if making the revolution didn’t happen where the dishes are done, i.e. in the kitchen, a place haunted by a strong symbolic charge for women and people assigned as such. Yet the kitchen is a place of creation and production, and Marxist feminist criticism has long been calling attention to the crucial place of domestic labour in the capitalist economy. The kitchen is a place of personal, collective, cultural, economic, social and political intensity. In designing these spaces, architects and designers have contributed to the creation of their most central piece of furniture: the housewife. Saul Pandelakis propose here to mobilise this figure to suggest that we become boniches and cyborgs, in order to imagine together, through design, these alternative beings in the kitchen.