PODCAST · arts

Kitchen Flex

by Victoria McKenzie

Kitchen Flex is a podcast, archive, space and dialogue that aims to deconstruct and re-construct the workings of architecture, at the same time. Descending directly from the project: Annotations (2023) which began at interrupting the modernist trajectory of architecture to re-story, re-frame, and re-interpret the built environment through a pre-colonial lens—Kitchen Flex extends the pre-colonial into the decolonial to bring to surface the immaterialities of architecture and world building. Immaterialities such as storytelling, mythologies, spirituality, sound and embodiment which were central to pre-colonial African and Indigenous ways of building to the point that the immaterial became material—the word becomes world. In conversation with Victoria, guests are invited into an