The Kitchen and the Self
a performance by Manmeet Devgun and Heike Fiedler
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
6 - 8 PM
At FICA Reading Room, New Delhi
The project The Kitchen and the Self supported by the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, is the continuation of the previous performance t-able: sound and dialogues by the artists Manmeet Devgun and Heike Fiedler.
In the upcoming presentation of their work in progress, Manmeet and Heike explore the link between cooking as performance and performance as cooking.
We look forward to hosting an interactive and exciting evening!
Please note: capacity is limited, so please write to info@ficart.org to confirm registration for the event with the subject line ‘THE KITCHEN AND THE SELF’
About the Facilitators
Manmeet Devgun grounds her multidisciplinary practice in lived and inherited experiences of womanhood Her work reclaims the personal as political, using performance, text, sound, and other mediums to question patriarchal structures, explore domestic intimacies, and assert the female body as a site of memory, resistance, and repair.
Heike Fiedler is a writer, performer, sound and visual artist, exploring the in between of different languages and media, of the public and private spheres. She interrogates and destabilises dominant structures, present in everyday life. Unexpected moments may become a surfaces for interaction, a space for experimental explorations.
