Freudian Bites Podcast

In this episode Huma, Chantal and Duru reminisce about their Freudian Bites collaboration titled Grain of Life  a year ago. They go on to talk about their first memories of food, tomatoes, ritual, Egyptian mythology, passed on recipes, conviviality and more... 

A year on from the second iteration of Freudian Bites, this episode feels like a natural place to pause and look back. Through conversation, we revisited the evening that brought artist Emma Witter and artist-chef Kawther Luay together around one table, where sculpture, food, and people met in ways that stayed with us long after. The podcast becomes its own kind of reflection, a chance to trace what that night left behind.We spoke about memory and conviviality, and what happens when people gather around one table. How texture, scent, and taste shape experience. How smell can hold memory more powerfully than words. The dinner became not just an event, but a shared ritual.Emma reflected on tactility and the act of drawing, on shaping materials by hand and working intuitively with matter that has already lived another life. Her sculptures invite touch and closeness. We discussed how making can feel like remembering, and how the hand often understands before language does.Kawther spoke about food as a site of belonging, and hospitality as both care and conversation. Sharing a meal creates a temporary space of openness where vulnerability and curiosity can coexist.Together, we revisited an evening where sculpture met sustenance, and where gathering itself became the artwork.We are grateful to Eden Arts Foundation for supporting the Freudian Bites podcast and helping us continue these conversations at the intersection of art, food, and care. More more information on past Freudian Bites supper clubs, you can click here. 

In the pilot episode of Freudian Bites, curator Huma Kabakcı welcomes artist Lucia Pizzani back into the kitchen where the project first began, reflecting on the origins of Freudian Bites as an intimate supper-club series and its evolution into an oral space of shared reflection, memory, and care. Opening with the story of a broken dishwasher during the very first dinner—an early Freudian slip that revealed the labour, vulnerability, and collaboration underpinning acts of hospitality—the episode unfolds as a conversation about how food, ritual, and artistic practice hold emotional knowledge beyond language. Pizzani speaks about formative meals remembered not for taste alone but for their emotional charge, tracing how memory often resides in smell, repetition, and embodied gesture, and recalling the particular atmosphere of that first evening: the intensity of a small table, the heightened attentiveness between strangers, and the way intimacy can open unexpected moments of discomfort, revelation, and connection. Together, Kabakcı and Pizzani reflect on how eating together alters how we witness one another’s work, allowing artistic ideas to be metabolised through the senses rather than observed at a distance. The conversation moves toward Pizzani’s own practice, rooted in ecology, ritual, mythology, and embodied forms of knowing, and how it translated into a menu logic for the supper, where taste, texture, and process became carriers of meaning. They revisit the collective clay-printing workshop that concluded the meal, considering it as a quiet ritual of imprinting, care, and shared authorship, and discuss how such gestures differ from institutional modes of display, proposing intimacy as a site of slower, more ethical artistic exchange. The Freudian Bites podcast is supported by Eden Arts Foundation, whose commitment to thoughtful, care-led cultural production makes this intimate extension of the project possible.