Pilot Episode with Lucia Pizzani

In the pilot episode of Freudian Bites, curator Huma Kabakcı welcomes artist Lucia Pizzani back into the kitchen where the project first began, reflecting on the origins of Freudian Bites as an intimate supper-club series and its evolution into an oral space of shared reflection, memory, and care. Opening with the story of a broken dishwasher during the very first dinner—an early Freudian slip that revealed the labour, vulnerability, and collaboration underpinning acts of hospitality—the episode unfolds as a conversation about how food, ritual, and artistic practice hold emotional knowledge beyond language. Pizzani speaks about formative meals remembered not for taste alone but for their emotional charge, tracing how memory often resides in smell, repetition, and embodied gesture, and recalling the particular atmosphere of that first evening: the intensity of a small table, the heightened attentiveness between strangers, and the way intimacy can open unexpected moments of discomfort, revelation, and connection. Together, Kabakcı and Pizzani reflect on how eating together alters how we witness one another’s work, allowing artistic ideas to be metabolised through the senses rather than observed at a distance. The conversation moves toward Pizzani’s own practice, rooted in ecology, ritual, mythology, and embodied forms of knowing, and how it translated into a menu logic for the supper, where taste, texture, and process became carriers of meaning. They revisit the collective clay-printing workshop that concluded the meal, considering it as a quiet ritual of imprinting, care, and shared authorship, and discuss how such gestures differ from institutional modes of display, proposing intimacy as a site of slower, more ethical artistic exchange. 

The Freudian Bites podcast is supported by Eden Arts Foundation, whose commitment to thoughtful, care-led cultural production makes this intimate extension of the project possible.