Chōri Collective emerged as a collaborative platform for Asian artists to explore colonial histories and question binaries through the metaphor of cooking. It has evolved into a dynamic space where artists, performers, and non-human agents mix, contaminate, and ferment through experimental, interdisciplinary practices.
 “Chōri” (조리/料理) in Hanja means “cooking,” emphasizing process over product—unlike “Yōri” (요리/料理), which highlights the final dish. We view bodies as food, recipes as power structures, and seek to decompose and understand them as ferments. The kitchen disrupts sensory hierarchies, fostering collaborative gestures and performative happenings. Between white-cube and black-box, Chōri kneads, breaks, and ferments colonial structures.