SHADE

PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD: A Culinary Collaboration

As part of the programme, SHADE collaborates with chefs Lulu Stone and Orli Oh (with appearances by chef Khanya Mazongwana) for a concept dinner where children from SHADE’s art programmes co-shape the dining experience.

Expect a joyful undoing of table manners: playful ceramics, textures that trick the tongue, and dishes inspired by found objects and wasted “what-nots.”

In SHADE’s world, playing with your food is not mischief—it’s methodology.

Throughout a vibrant stretch in mid-December, SHADE’s SEE SAW takeover will animate ONE Park with a fluid sequence of sound, film, art and culinary experimentation. The programme opens by setting an atmosphere of playful sonic exploration, as electronic musicians, ambient experimentalists and DJs reimagine the space with live performances that carry into the evenings. Over the following days, ONE Park becomes a hub for re-edited film montages, radio interventions and VJ sets, drawing from SHADE’s extensive Johannesburg archive—including material from community parades, VR collaborations, youth art programmes and the Brixton Light Festival—recast for Cape Town audiences. Across the venue, visitors encounter a layered presentation of artworks, objects, reprints and in-process materials created by youth groups, crafters, architects, photographers and artists who have shaped SHADE’s ecosystem.

The week culminates in a concept dinner co-created with chefs and children from SHADE’s youth programmes, where playful eating, unexpected textures and material storytelling merge into a multisensory performance. Together, these overlapping events offer a vivid window into SHADE’s practice of social collaging, hybrid material culture and intergenerational worldbuilding—brought to life in Cape Town for the first time.