Haribo Kimchi
Jaha Koo / CAMPO
Haribo Kimchi
Food performance
“‘Haribo Kimchi’ is a performance that is as clever as it is authentic about living in a country that is not one’s own. The way not only to love, but also to melancholy is through the stomach.” Floris Baeke and Charlotte De Somviele, De Standaard, 3.8.2024
Anyone arriving at ‘Haribo Kimchi’ hungry will wish there was a place for them at Jaha Koo’s food stall. The theatre-maker, performer and composer has toured the whole world with his technically precise and moving works that span the tensions between his South Korean heritage and his life in Europe. His new performance ‘Haribo Kimchi’ is a heart-warming work about migration, home and the healing powers of food. On stage, Koo invites the audience to a pojangmacha, a typical South Korean late-night street-food stall that turns out to be a place of mystery. Here the audience meets a number of lost souls; a snail, a gummy bear and an eel analyse the structure of society through food culture. In anecdotes that are both absurd and touching, they share stories about the diaspora of kimchi culture, cannibalism during the great famine, the pain caused by overt racism and the umami taste of home. With a combination of music, video and robotic performers that typifies his work, Jaha Koo reflects on the conflicts and contradictions of cultural assimilation – and changes our perceptions of food in a live cooking performance that appeals to all the senses.
‘Haribo Kimchi’s acclaimed world premiere took place at Tangente St.Pölten and it has since visited major festivals around the world. In the performances at Impulse, it will be seen in NRW for the first time.
Tickets
Regular price: 16 €
Reduced price: 11 €
Supporters' price: 25 €
Minimum price: 6 €
Venue
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Duration
70 minutes
Discussion
On 21.06., the performance will be followed by an aftertalk (in English).
Language
English and Korean with German and English surtitles