\u201cChina Box\u201d is an artistic project featuring food and storytelling. The takeout \u201cChina Box\u201d is explored as a cultural object and recontextualized through the voices of the Chinese diaspora in Hesse.
Nine Chinese-speaking people from Hesse \u2013 from different generations and with different life paths \u2013 have shared their migration stories and everyday experiences. Their stories have now been incorporated into nine Story Boxes. Visitors can open these boxes, read their stories, and listen to their voices. <\/p>\n
In addition to the Story Box, there will be continuous cooking and dining throughout both days: an open invitation to gather around the table together.
\nThe installation features three special events, each exploring the connection between food and meaning in its own way:<\/p>\n
Kit invites you to \u201c\u6070\u6d41\u6c34\u5e2d\u201d \u2013 A Feast That Never Sits Still: a dining tradition that originated at Chinese village festivals. Strangers and acquaintances sit together at long tables; guests come and go in waves, and dishes are served in an unbroken succession. Two such tables will be set up in the garden and foyer of the Frankfurt Lab, where guests can move from one dish to the next, bowl in hand. Kit\u2019s sumptuous menu is also an invitation to reflect: What actually counts as \u201cauthentic Chinese cuisine\u201d \u2013 and who decides that? <\/p>\n
Sichi will host the \u201e\u4e0d\u5e78\u8fd0\u997c\u5e72” \u2013 Unlucky Cookie Workshop: a twist on the well-known fortune cookie. Instead of words of wisdom, these cookies contain different messages. Together with Sichi, participants will make their own unlucky cookies \u2013 and curse together. <\/p>\n
Yinfu invites you to \u6545\u4e8b\u76d2\u5b50\uff1a\u7231\u6211\uff0c\u4f60\u6015\u8fa3\u5417? – \u201eStory Box Workshop.” For the project China Box, she interviewed Chinese immigrants living and working in Hesse \u2014 each with their own reasons and paths for coming to Germany. Their stories became nine Story Boxes, whose blueprints follow the shape of the China Box takeout container. Guided by Yinfu, participants are invited to fold the printed paper sheets step by step into three-dimensional boxes, until a Story Box installation takes shape. <\/p>\n
Yinfu will also open up her own story\/food box \u2013 telling her own story through “spicy chicken feet,” a snack from her hometown. Feeling brave? Take on the Spicy Chicken Feet Challenge (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!). <\/p>\n
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03.10.2026:<\/p>\n
16.00: A FEAST THAT NEVER SITS STILL with Ling-Kit<\/p>\n
17.00: UNLUCKY COOKIE Workshop with Sichi Li<\/p>\n
18.00: STORY BOX Workshop with Yinfu Gao<\/p>\n
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04.10.2026:<\/p>\n
13.00: STORY BOX Workshop with Yinfu Gao<\/p>\n
14.00: A FEAST THAT NEVER SITS STILL with Ling-Kit<\/p>\n
15.00: UNLUCKY COOKIE Workshop with Sichi Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1386,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-1387","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}