DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2023.1.11| HAGEMANN, WAGNER: LUNCHABLES_ INSIGHTOUT 1(2023) 72bly negative aspect, the senseof shame and many instances ofdiscrimination, the experienceof growing up in low-incomecircumstances has at the sametime trained our perception andbrought out a certain sensitivityto classist patterns of discrimination, even if quite subtly embedded in larger contexts. The sameis true for certain forms of knowledge and survival strategies inthe working field of everyday crises.Our project addresses the relationship between‘food’ and‘class’ in general and especially within familial care relationships from different perspectives.We used the context of the workshop to briefly outline the premises of our research and engage in aconversation with participants about larger issuesand contexts that concern us. Because it was a workshop, we took the liberty to share with participantssome provisional ideas from our working process andour thinking on the matter. The most important premise is our own origin from a so-called“humble background”. We grew up in different social contexts: asthe youngest of four children in a small town in NorthRhine-Westphalia, and as the only child of a singlemother in an East German town hit hard by the upheavals of the so-called“Wende”. At the same time,we both experienced during our childhood and adolescence how an important part of the parent-childor, in our case, the mother-son relationship is established through the provision of food and what specialcircumstances inform this situation when economicconditions are precarious. Aside from the indubitaAt the moment, we are engagedin setting up a Research Lab forInterventions Against Classism(Forschungslabor für Interventionen gegen Klassismus), whoseGerman acronym*FLINK refers to an on-demanddelivery service and actor of exploitation in the gigeconomy that is quite successful in Germany. Thisof course raises questions far beyond dealing withfoodstuffs, and we have based our work on a set ofcategories that guide our actions and thinking at alltimes. These are gender, materiality, power, space,knowledge, race, the reflection of our own presumptions and positions as well as those of the peoplewe meet and the contexts we visit, plus n, with“n”being a mathematical variable to indicate that it isan extensible set. We are, for example, particularlyinterested in the spatial aspects of the relationshipswe examine, like family relationships that are closely linked to living conditions in rented apartments.Space as a sphere of knowledge(re-)production andsocial power relations also plays a crucial role in theconception of exhibitions and other educationalforms. This applies to the materiality of food and thethings needed to produce, buy, prepare, and consumeit much in the same manner as it does to the material setup of an exhibition, a website, a publication, or
