aisha tida, Diaspora Dumpling Lab: Omek Harra, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

aisha tida

Diaspora Dumplings: Pantry Tours x Traveling Test Kitchen

Diaspora Dumplings: Pantry Tours x Traveling Test Kitchen is a social practice art project that travels to participants’ home kitchens. Through conversation, pantry tours, and collaborative dumpling-making, the project uses food as both material and metaphor to explore identity, migration, memory, and belonging. The resulting stories, images, and recipes are published as a growing, publicly accessible online archive that reframes everyday people as culture-bearers and ordinary items as artifacts worthy of study and preservation.