About
Goblin Feast – Carla Menas (CY), Chris Nelck (NL), Paul Smullenberg (NL) and Jip Moeken (NL) – is a celebration of odd, mythical foods inspired by a folklore creature: the goblin. Little, mischievous outcasts. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes, but attach themselves to households, where they bang upon pots and pans, snatch nightclothes off the bodies of sleeping people, move furniture at night, and flee after rattling on walls and doors.
Inspired by these unruly habits, we reimagine how goblins might celebrate, through food, fantasy, and ritual. We find freedom in the vague and the dirty and let our fantasy run wild on foods resulting in a 1970’s inspired dinner party. We feast like they would after a satisfying night of taunting humans.
With food comes the ritual of serving. How do you bring your pudding to the table? Do you pray? Do you kiss every aunt on the cheek at a Dutch birthday party? We invite you to feast, perform, and misbehave, just as the goblins would want. Join us at the edge of the grotto, where the clatter of cutlery meets the cackle of goblins.