Freudian Bites Podcast Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:23:28 -0400 https://freudianbitespodcast.buzzsprout.com en-gb © 2026 Freudian Bites Podcast yes 28502904-9ec5-57e0-ace0-dca3c8ecdf62 Huma Kabakci episodic false Freudian Bites is a podcast that invites you into the intimate conversations behind a unique supper club series where art, food, and psychoanalysis meet. Created by curator Huma Kabakcı, Freudian Bites began as a series of small, carefully curated dinners bringing together artists, chefs, and thinkers around a shared table. Each gathering explored how creativity, memory, taste and intimacy unfold through food and conversation. In this podcast, Huma sits down with the collaborators who shaped those evenings. Together they reflect on the ideas, stories, and emotional undercurrents behind each gathering, exploring the relationship between art and food, the power of shared meals, and the subtle Freudian slips that reveal deeper connections.


Each episode ends by sharing a single recipe from the table, offering a tangible way to bring the Freudian Bites experience into your own kitchen. Listen in to discover how food can become a language for storytelling, connection, and care. The first season of this podcast series is generously supported by the Eden Arts Foundation. More information on the project can be found on: https://humakabakci.com/freudian-bites/


Music by Colin McGinness. 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Huma Kabakci https://storage.buzzsprout.com/5rq0horstnlk0jmjhq346o58yxxd?.jpg Freudian Bites Podcast Huma Kabakci Episode 3 with Chantal Powell & Duru Bebekoglu Episode 3 with Chantal Powell & Duru Bebekoglu In this episode Huma, Chantal and Duru reminisce about their Freudian Bites collaboration titled Grain of Life  a year ago. They go on to talk about their first memories of food, tomatoes, ritual, Egyptian mythology, passed on recipes, conviviality and more... 

]]> In this episode Huma, Chantal and Duru reminisce about their Freudian Bites collaboration titled Grain of Life  a year ago. They go on to talk about their first memories of food, tomatoes, ritual, Egyptian mythology, passed on recipes, conviviality and more... 

]]> Huma Kabakci Buzzsprout-18959207 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0100 2540 1 3 full false Episode 2 with Emma Witter & Kawther Luay Episode 2 with Emma Witter & Kawther Luay A year on from the second iteration of Freudian Bites, this episode feels like a natural place to pause and look back. Through conversation, we revisited the evening that brought artist Emma Witter and artist-chef Kawther Luay together around one table, where sculpture, food, and people met in ways that stayed with us long after. The podcast becomes its own kind of reflection, a chance to trace what that night left behind.

We spoke about memory and conviviality, and what happens when people gather around one table. How texture, scent, and taste shape experience. How smell can hold memory more powerfully than words. The dinner became not just an event, but a shared ritual.

Emma reflected on tactility and the act of drawing, on shaping materials by hand and working intuitively with matter that has already lived another life. Her sculptures invite touch and closeness. We discussed how making can feel like remembering, and how the hand often understands before language does.

Kawther spoke about food as a site of belonging, and hospitality as both care and conversation. Sharing a meal creates a temporary space of openness where vulnerability and curiosity can coexist.

Together, we revisited an evening where sculpture met sustenance, and where gathering itself became the artwork.

We are grateful to Eden Arts Foundation for supporting the Freudian Bites podcast and helping us continue these conversations at the intersection of art, food, and care. 

More more information on past Freudian Bites supper clubs, you can click here. 

]]> A year on from the second iteration of Freudian Bites, this episode feels like a natural place to pause and look back. Through conversation, we revisited the evening that brought artist Emma Witter and artist-chef Kawther Luay together around one table, where sculpture, food, and people met in ways that stayed with us long after. The podcast becomes its own kind of reflection, a chance to trace what that night left behind.

We spoke about memory and conviviality, and what happens when people gather around one table. How texture, scent, and taste shape experience. How smell can hold memory more powerfully than words. The dinner became not just an event, but a shared ritual.

Emma reflected on tactility and the act of drawing, on shaping materials by hand and working intuitively with matter that has already lived another life. Her sculptures invite touch and closeness. We discussed how making can feel like remembering, and how the hand often understands before language does.

Kawther spoke about food as a site of belonging, and hospitality as both care and conversation. Sharing a meal creates a temporary space of openness where vulnerability and curiosity can coexist.

Together, we revisited an evening where sculpture met sustenance, and where gathering itself became the artwork.

We are grateful to Eden Arts Foundation for supporting the Freudian Bites podcast and helping us continue these conversations at the intersection of art, food, and care. 

More more information on past Freudian Bites supper clubs, you can click here. 

]]> Huma Kabakci Buzzsprout-18731042 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 2350 1 2 full false Pilot Episode with Lucia Pizzani Pilot Episode with Lucia Pizzani In the pilot episode of Freudian Bites, curator Huma Kabakcı welcomes artist Lucia Pizzani back into the kitchen where the project first began, reflecting on the origins of Freudian Bites as an intimate supper-club series and its evolution into an oral space of shared reflection, memory, and care. Opening with the story of a broken dishwasher during the very first dinner—an early Freudian slip that revealed the labour, vulnerability, and collaboration underpinning acts of hospitality—the episode unfolds as a conversation about how food, ritual, and artistic practice hold emotional knowledge beyond language. Pizzani speaks about formative meals remembered not for taste alone but for their emotional charge, tracing how memory often resides in smell, repetition, and embodied gesture, and recalling the particular atmosphere of that first evening: the intensity of a small table, the heightened attentiveness between strangers, and the way intimacy can open unexpected moments of discomfort, revelation, and connection. Together, Kabakcı and Pizzani reflect on how eating together alters how we witness one another’s work, allowing artistic ideas to be metabolised through the senses rather than observed at a distance. The conversation moves toward Pizzani’s own practice, rooted in ecology, ritual, mythology, and embodied forms of knowing, and how it translated into a menu logic for the supper, where taste, texture, and process became carriers of meaning. They revisit the collective clay-printing workshop that concluded the meal, considering it as a quiet ritual of imprinting, care, and shared authorship, and discuss how such gestures differ from institutional modes of display, proposing intimacy as a site of slower, more ethical artistic exchange. 

The Freudian Bites podcast is supported by Eden Arts Foundation, whose commitment to thoughtful, care-led cultural production makes this intimate extension of the project possible.

]]> In the pilot episode of Freudian Bites, curator Huma Kabakcı welcomes artist Lucia Pizzani back into the kitchen where the project first began, reflecting on the origins of Freudian Bites as an intimate supper-club series and its evolution into an oral space of shared reflection, memory, and care. Opening with the story of a broken dishwasher during the very first dinner—an early Freudian slip that revealed the labour, vulnerability, and collaboration underpinning acts of hospitality—the episode unfolds as a conversation about how food, ritual, and artistic practice hold emotional knowledge beyond language. Pizzani speaks about formative meals remembered not for taste alone but for their emotional charge, tracing how memory often resides in smell, repetition, and embodied gesture, and recalling the particular atmosphere of that first evening: the intensity of a small table, the heightened attentiveness between strangers, and the way intimacy can open unexpected moments of discomfort, revelation, and connection. Together, Kabakcı and Pizzani reflect on how eating together alters how we witness one another’s work, allowing artistic ideas to be metabolised through the senses rather than observed at a distance. The conversation moves toward Pizzani’s own practice, rooted in ecology, ritual, mythology, and embodied forms of knowing, and how it translated into a menu logic for the supper, where taste, texture, and process became carriers of meaning. They revisit the collective clay-printing workshop that concluded the meal, considering it as a quiet ritual of imprinting, care, and shared authorship, and discuss how such gestures differ from institutional modes of display, proposing intimacy as a site of slower, more ethical artistic exchange. 

The Freudian Bites podcast is supported by Eden Arts Foundation, whose commitment to thoughtful, care-led cultural production makes this intimate extension of the project possible.

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