The Transspecies Kitchen experiment transforms pieces of marble discarded as waste during stone extraction into a sustainable kitchen that relies on fermentation as the primary method of preparing food. This harnesses the ecological energy produced by molecular interactions. A fruit of a collaborative effort of Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and the Murcia-based firm M-Marble Project, Transspecies Kitchen is installed and active at the Middleheim Museum in Antwerp during the summer of 2024.

Growing, decomposing, cooking, and digesting are interconnected processes that generate an alliance between different forms of life. Operating as a collective intestine, Transspecies Kitchen shows that metabolism is not an independent process, but dependent on alliances that are not exclusively human. The ultimate expression of this is the science of fermentation based on bacteria and fungi.