Charlotte Koopman

founded, together with Hadas Cna’ani, in 2009 a kitchen-collective named Otark. Otark cooks in various contexts and with varying line-ups responding to film, sound, words, the weather. Otark has a strong preference for Handwork / Close-ups (the near) / Off-beat (the far-out) / Slow-mo / Slapstick / Roots and Leaves and works according to the vershki i koreshki principle: foundation versus the way the wind blows, home-cooking on the move, and- as cooks do- works within a framework of a timeline, rhythm, repetition, seasonality and impermanence.