Sunday 13 July 2025, 7.30pm
Please note that advance booking is essential for entry to the full event, including a 3-course meal. The £5 door price is for entry after 9pm and includes the live set and dessert.
Following the popular success of the inaugural evening with Sholto Dobie and Will Peers, On Yee Lo (Hong Kong) invites Berlin-based cellist Judith Hamann (Narrm / Melbourne) for the second seating of “HOSTING” - a series of “socials” encompassing food, music and communal activities, in which artists and musicians take over the OTO kitchen for a single evening to experiment with modes of hospitality. Featuring a three-course menu (vegetarian with vegan option) by Judith Hamann and On Yee Lo. Live solo set by Judith Hamann.
"Judith works with food in a way that is intuitive and reflects multiple strands of flavors, spices, and textural gifts, from friends, families, and communities received through their largely nomadic touring life. Judith’s cooking is interested in communal encounters, care practices, and the choreography of chili."
PROGRAMMME
Menu by Judith Hamann
Rosemary Cannellini Beans, Charred Tomato Salsa Macha, Pickled Fennel with Ume Shiso
Mole Poblano Roasted Cauliflower, Tomatillos Salsa Verde, Hibiscus and Lime Pickled Onions, Tahini, Greens and Flatbread
Dessert by On Yee Lo
Grape and Tamarind Sorbet with Wah Mui Sprinkles (Dried Preserved Plum)
Live solo set by Judith Hamann
Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Narrm/Melbourne. They have “long been recognised as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary-music cellists” (RealTime Arts), and as a composer who “destroys the fiction of the musician who lives and works outside conventional parameters and puts in its place a series of compositions that are fundamentally humane” (WIRE). Their work encompasses performance, improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, site specific generative work, and micro-tonal systems in a process based creative practice.
In their recent research, Hamann examines the acts of shaking and humming as formal and intimate encounters; interrogates ‘collapse’ as a generative imaginary surface; and considers the ‘de-mastering’ of bodies, both human and non-human, in settler-colonial heritage instrumental practice and pedagogy. Their process-driven and embodied practice, considers the ways sound operates as a subject, object, and actant. Trained in contemporary classical performance, they frequently challenge the boundaries of their instruments, whether the cello, voice, or body, considering how sonic thresholds offer generative sites of instability and movement.
Judith likes working with and thinking-with other artists which has sometimes included people like Marja Ahti, Oren Ambarchi, Joshua Bonnetta, Dennis Cooper, Charles Curtis, Lori Goldston, the Harmonic Space Orchestra, Sarah Hennies, Yvette Janine Jackson, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue, and La Monte Young. Judith’s work has previously been published by labels including Blank Forms, Black Truffle, Another Timbre, and Longform Editions. Judith is currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2021-22 and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from UC San Diego.
London-based multidisciplinary artist and cook On Yee Lo (b. Hong Kong), creates and constructs ‘Cooking Instruments’- physical systems where common meals are prepared and consumed which encompass gestures, labour and hospitality. Her performances fold together with experiences of working as both cook and musician within the experimental music communities. These systems unravel her research in culinary techniques and open transformative processes across a variety of social settings. She has exhibited and performed her work at Counterflows Festival Glasgow, LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Cafe OTO, Ikon Gallery, ICA London, Camden Art Centre, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and ARTISSIMA Turin.
