SILENT HUNGER: The Feeding — Friday: Appetite

At some point, hunger stops being about food and starts being about control. What would happen if you didn’t immediately negotiate with it?
You pass by an amazing bakery on your way home and you see your favourite freshly made croissants in the window, but you already ate.
You hear your stomach growling and decide to wait until later.
You crave something salty, hot, greasy, but settle for something “healthier” instead which doesn’t fully satisfy you.
We all know hunger, and we all have to feed ourselves. But hunger rarely stays a simple sensation in the body that signals what we crave for. It becomes a decision, a rule, a negotiation that quietly trains how we ask, wait, take, or go without.
We learn how to quiet it.
We eat oatmeal instead of the fries we are craving.
We watch porn instead of having sex.
We scroll instead of sleeping.
We ask for a hug when what we wanted was to be held and ugly cry in someone’s lap.
We learn to live on crumbs and avoid naming what we truly want, because what we truly want is often too much, too risky, too exposing, too inconvenient, or simply not available.
So we settle for something else and call it enough.
It takes courage to ask without knowing if you will be fed.
Silent Hunger is an experimental workshop exploring what happens when you stop managing your own nourishment for a moment, through the simple act of feeding and allowing yourself to be fed.
Over the course of a weekend, we place our appetite into a shared space and take time to experience waiting, craving, control, shame, satisfaction and fulfillment. You are invited to inquire about your hunger, to feed and be fed, to witness and be witnessed wanting, refuse what is offered, or not, to discover what sits behind your wanting when nourishment isn’t entirely managed in advance.
Silent Hunger: The Feeding doesn’t promise resolution or fairness. You may be met. You may not be. Nourishment may be delayed, redirected, or withheld. You may receive what you asked for, something else, or nothing at all.
Program:
Friday: Appetite
consent & appetite mapping (workshop 18-22)