Vlada Predelina

The Art Feeds Collective Residencies are a transnational residency program under the Feed Your Future project, exploring the curatorial theme "Edible Commons: Performing the Future of Food". Five European host cities including Paphos (Cyprus), Milan (Italy), Almere (Netherlands), Brașov (Romania), and Thessaloniki (Greece), Co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe.

Can Serrat x Entorns is a collaborative residency and grant initiative split between the international art production residency Can Serrat, El Bruc near Montserrat mountain and the creative space and research art residency Entorns in Músser in the Catalan Pyrenees with a focus on creative projects that emphasise process, community interaction and dialogue between art and local contexts with time spent at both locations.

The initiative centers on the unique ecology of Brienenoord Island, a relatively young, man-made urban island located in the middle of the Nieuwe Maas river. The long-term mission of the project is to amplify the island's voice, history, and future hopes, with the eventual goal of advocating for its legal rights as a protected natural park. It explores our ecological relationship with the island through tasting, foraging, deep listening, and sensory observation.

The work invites the viewer to look at pelmeni, a specific type of dumpling and national dish of Russia, through multiple lenses. From pelmeni as sustenance of the nomadic people of the Ural region; to conquerors consuming pelmeni and regional culture whilst expanding maps of Imperial Russia; and then from the perspective of personal memories in the privacy of a domestic kitchen. It is a recipe preserved and passed on from generation to generation, from hands to hands and from East to West.

Presentation of research

Tongue Twisting Dinners is a series of four monthly dinners hosted by Eathouse. The dinners explore ways of initiating critical dialogue around contemporary urgencies by bringing people and culinary practice together. Over four monthly dinner sessions, the dinners explored ways of initiating critical dialogue around contemporary urgencies by bringing people and culinary practice together. For each session Eathouse hosted a specific topic with invited guests.

Guests will cooked pelmeni with a research talk of the origins of pelmeni from the semi-nomadic Uralic hunters' sustenance to their present status as a national dish of Russia. The name originates from the Udmurt language: pel' nyan' meaning 'ear bread'. Using them as a listening tool, we opened up discussions about unwritten histories, knowledges and their meaning in the current context.

Eathouse did a kitchen takeover at the project Pakghor social kitchen organized by Britto Arts Trust at documenta fifteen

Tuinlab is an ongoing garden project in collaboration with artists, neighbors, and children, exploring the possibilities of connecting through art, research, nature, embodied knowledge, getting hands dirty, and learning about the origins of food. It's about learning, about being together, about people's relationship with each other (both humans and plants), through a set of activities and interventions in and around the garden such as grass-weaving and cooking.

'Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook' presents the starting point of an investigation into the histories of pelmeni, a type of dumpling originating from nomadic peoples of the Ural mountains. Over a course of four small pelmeni-making sessions with women from different backgrounds, I collected oral histories of language, food and practices of home in 2021. The collaborative making of pelmeni—literally translated from Udmurti as ear-bread—foregrounds cooking together as a time for listening.

In Summer Season 2021 Eathouse Collective were running LIVE FEED: a set of 4 broadcasted events where we took a look at specific dishes we cook, and opened up discussions about their histories to find out what draws us to them and how we gather and form a community around them.

An autumnal homeware collection produced for a shop called LIFE. Thinking along with annual rhythms of growing, collecting and storing, the artists gathered organic materials on walks and in the kitchen over the summer and early autumn to make naturally dyed textiles. This was accompanied by candles cast in recycled bottles, analogue photographs of mushrooms in the woods and reading lamps.

Natural dye workshop

Colors of Wielewaal features new work made using natural dyes gathered in and around the Wielewaal neighborhood. It celebrates a moment of a recent interest in making natural colors from plants and food scraps in order to be more connected to the land and our surroundings as a way to feel more at home.

Eathouse is an initiative set up by Ulufer Çelik, Merve Kılıçer, Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb to provide simple, affordable food and a generous meeting point for people living in Rotterdam-South. For the 2020 summer season, Eathouse cooked and hosted the restaurant at Paviljoen ... aan het Water.

Ceramic Stories is a series of workshops for looking closely at daily routines and other personal rituals that make us feel grounded. This could be brushing teeth, doing some basic housework or walking to the shop to get groceries. An exploration of everyone's day-to-day life to larger events.

An invitation to share a personal moment of dumpling making at the grandparents' apartment. After not seeing them for a long period of time and discovering their figures on Google Maps' image captured outside of their house, there was an urge to recreate the experience, this home feeling away from home.

I used the residency to further explore my ideas about 'home' and 'housing' through installation, culminating in a workshop where I invited others to explore what home means to them.