TRAD IS A TRAP – für eine neue Frankfurter Stadtteilküche

TRAD IS A TRAP – for a new Frankfurt neighbourhood cuisine examines aesthetic mechanisms through which new right-wing ideologies – particularly in the form of anti-feminist images of women – become embedded in society, and counters this with an emancipatory model of communal care work.

Women are increasingly becoming active players within the right-wing scene. However, this phenomenon has been neglected in research and media coverage to date. Anti-feminism not only acts as a connecting element between right-wing extremist and right-wing conservative milieus, but also as a door opener to middle-class circles. The figure of the mother and housewife plays a particularly central role: as so-called ‘tradwives,’ they become a projection surface through which right-wing extremist ideologies penetrate the seemingly apolitical space of the family.

Our project aims to raise awareness of the ideological charge of right-wing design and show how right-wing content creeps into our feeds – and ultimately into our minds – via cooking shows and baking recipes.

The performance contrasts this reactionary image of women with an emancipatory model of communal care work. Over several days, the audience is invited to cook along in a laboratory setting and immerse themselves in the research results together with the performers – actress Anna Stiede and drummer Teresa Riemann. The focus is not only on analysis, but also on self-reflection: when do we unconsciously follow right-wing design? What appeals to us about it?