Sound and Bar residency 2025

Sound, listening, and flavors as powerful means of connection and social transformation, capable of generating alliances and deeply human and inclusive meanings and communities. A residency that seeks joint exploration, shared listening and with it, the generation of bonds and ties of mutual care and solidarity that inspire, resonate and echo both locally and globally.

Julio César Palacio is a sound artist, field recordist, and composer born in Venezuela and based in Barcelona, Spain. His sonic practice focuses on the research and study of acoustic phenomena, Listening as a community practice, the relationship of sound in identity and collective memory, oral history, noise pollution, and the impact of humans on nature, bioacoustics and the study of sound DATA as material for awareness and conservation of the environment and its soundscape, understood in the context of today's climate crisis and instability.

Xinyu Xie is a cook from the city of Baoji in central China, Shaanxi Province, who is famous for her handmade noodles and spicy food, which she has learned and mixed with the multicultural flavors of Xinjiang and Cantonese cuisine. Residing in Barcelona for the past 6 years, she has blended her cuisine with Mediterranean ingredients and learned recipes with Latin American seasoning.

Summer

June - August 2025

compost : compose

by Rasha Tayeh (Palestine)

"compost : compose" is an ongoing project, hosting a series of discussions, visual art and installation works across various ecologies and geographies inspired by soil and de/composition.

Rasha Tayeh has been practicing in the arts for around 20 years, and has exhibited in Australia and internationally. With a background in photography and visual arts, then studying nutrition and herbalism, her interest lies in the intersection of art, land and health. Rasha's practice is land-based, telling stories about people's relationships in community and ecology. As the founding Director of Beit e'Shai, and the artist behind the project "Compost: Compose", Rasha will takeover the bar with a botanical bar menu of herbal mixology, a broadcast on Radio alHara, a weekly Sunday Teahouse Session and curated online & offline public programme of workshops, talks and collaborations with Palestinian & Aboriginal and international artists, scholars and activists whose work is concerned with land and biodiversity.

The Salsa Project

by Grabacionesdecampo (Mexico/France)

The Salsa Project aims to plant Mexican chili varieties in Palestine, bringing a piece of Mexico to the region. It also seeks to create unique sauces using local and Mexican chilies, paired with traditional fermented drinks. The sound component of the project blends diverse Latin rhythms, including Salsa, Son Cubano, Jazz, and more, creating a rich cultural fusion.

Luis Fernando Lugo Torres was born in Mexico City in 1985. Writer, cook and melomaniac. He won the Punto de Partida poetry prize from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for his collection of poems Invernadero and the Bellas Artes Juan Rulfo Prize for First Novel for his novel Levadura silvestre. He is the author of the collection of poems Restaurante Bar Familiar. He has received residence from the Jóvenes Creadores programme of the Fonca and the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas. He is in charge of the radio project Grabacionesdecampo (Exploración sonora / Library sound /Sonidero). He currently lives in France and carries out his project Cafe Milpa, an itinerant coffee and bread.

Fall

September - November 2025

Spring Forward, Fall Back

Spring Sessions (Amman)

Spring Session members are proposing a collective and collaborative residency at Wonder Cabinet to create spaces of gathering and learning that make tangible the social, ecological, and political dimensions of life across Palestine and Jordan.

Spring Sessions is an arts residency and experiential learning program based in Amman and fueled by responsiveness to place and deep curiosity. From 2014-2019, the program enacted workshops, exhibitions, walks, and collaborative projects across Jordan with over 150 local and international artists. Several offshoot projects developed out of the program, including publishing and radio programs, the lesser amman library and Bar Tamam—a pop-up bar serving cocktails and snacks sourced from local ingredients. On hiatus since 2020, Spring Sessions is seeking connections of alchemical sustenance between Palestine and Jordan. For the Bar Residency at Wonder Cabinet, co-founders Toleen Touq and Noura Al Khasawneh and co-curators Victoria Dabdoub and Parastoo Anoushahpour will be in Bethlehem, joined by Spring Sessions members from Amman and elsewhere throughout the season.

Winter

December 2025 - February 2026

TEJUINO: Fermenting stories of solidarity

by Radio Tropiezo/Cráter Invertido (Mexico City)

Starting with fermentation as a transformative process, the residency will connect the political struggles of Mexico and Palestine. Through mixology, conviviality, and radio sessions, the collective seeks to engage in artistic practice as solidarity. By sharing experiences and memories, they would cultivate a cultural fermentation where affinities emerge, resistances take shape, and narratives honoring the shared struggles are woven.

Cráter Invertido is an artistic collective that organizes itself cooperatively with a diversity of collectivities, both local and international (Arts Collaboratory), to generate experimental practices of collective study, artistic production and diverse forms of knowledge sharing. From the interrelation of collective self-organization dynamics, political imagination and critical study the collective seeks learning and unlearning processes that can materialize in different common tools that nurture processes of resistance and solidarity through artistic experimentation. Due to the current socio-political context and own experiences, the group’s processes of collective organization and production are based on anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives. Another vital part of the cooperative is the dimension of self-publication and the practices of self-narration and translation understood also as an artistic practice, carried out through in-house printing press and Radio Tropiezo. Waysatta Fernández (México) Sandro Brito (México) Aline Hernández (México, currently working at Casco Art Institute in Netherlands) Stefania Acevedo (México) Juan Mena (México) Sari Dennise (México).

Nagori

by Ryohei Ozaki (Paris/Kyoto/New York)

Chef-in-residence

'Nagori' in Japanese can describe the last weeks of a season, end-of-season food, and the gentle sadness of bidding farewell to a person, a place, an object. What do resistance and resilience look like when we are denied access to the emotional value of an ingredient not because of natural cycles but because of occupation, blockade, apartheid?

Ryohei Ozaki is an interdisciplinary food artist, educator, writer, researcher, musician, and translator living and working between Paris, Kyoto, and New York. He is interested in relationships between food and socio-agricultural systems, labor migration and cultural circulation, sustainability and sensoriality. He sees cooking as a participatory medium through which to explore questions of belonging, memory, and appropriation/expropriation.

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Supported by Allianz Foundation Grant 2024: “Fixing What’s Broken, Together”.

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For any inquiries, please contact: office@wondercabinet.space

Thanks to this call, we had the opportunity to learn about over 60 encouraging and inspiring projects and initiatives worldwide, and extend our gratitude to all the applicants.

The current residents for the summer season (June to August 2025) are Rasha Tayeh and Luis Fernando Lugo Torres with their projects compost : compose and The Salsa Project

THE RESIDENTS

April - June 2025

The Listening Club + Xina Bar

by Julio César Palacio and Xinyu Xie (Spain/China)