A Forest Feast
Drifts festival, Helsinki, Finland
August 14 2025
Edible installation and performance as part of Drifts festival.
Malmitalo, Helsinki. Curated by Soko Hwang.
Cake
Plant based, 110~ servings
Chocolate and black sesame cake, chocolate-black sesame buttercream, rye-chocolate-almond crumbs, chocolate meringue shards, matcha sponge cake, stinging nettle shortbread, whipped cream infused with meadowsweet and spruce tips, rowan and apple jam, and bilberry-cardamom jam.
Jellies
Plant based, 50 servings
Infused with birch leaves and yarrow.
A Forest Feast is an edible sweet installation by Alejandra Alarcón that includes memories and fragments from urban and nonurban forest walks around Helsinki and Joutsa— from an abundance of bilberries and rowan berries to meadowsweet and yarrow growing in the liminal spaces of clear-cut forest areas. Like foraging, each taste of this feast becomes a playful act of recognition, while evoking memories from different seasons.
Audience destroying and devouring the edible forest.Aftermath of the edible installation/performance.Plant based jellies. Jellies placed on birch leaves.