Studio as a Kitchen

Drunk blueberries, seismic cake, electromagnetic ice cream

Abstract

For decades, Julijonas Urbonas has treated the studio as an extension of his body—a “machinery of thinging” whose tools, microclimates, and mess actively shape how he thinks and makes. Beginning with an amusement park studio that seeded his “Gravitational Aesthetics,” he traces how different studios—and especially a live/work loft—collapsed the boundary between artmaking and everyday life. In that arrangement, habits reorganize: tools migrate into routines, and the kitchen becomes a stage, rehearsal room, and workshop at once. Three “recipes” illustrate this fusion of nourishment and experiment: magnet-influenced ice cream, a vibration-crumbled seismic cake, and vacuum-infused “drunk” blueberries. Together they show how living inside a studio turns eating into a material practice—part sustenance, part performance, and part method for thinking through matter.