Food is an inevitable part of life for every human being, for me it is one of the central points. Since I began my adult life, cooking, feeding and eating are my great passions. During the second year of the Fine Art: Painting course I knew that my final year would have been dedicated to mixing my studio practice with the love for food. At the beginning of my research I was looking for any references and existing connections between the aforementioned subjects. One of the first writing pieces linked to art and food that fell in to my hands was a New York Times article from 2012 by William Deresiewicz How Food Replaced Art as a High Culture. The article was full of concerns about the sensitivity of contemporary Americans, claiming that food in any shape is not, never was or can be art. This opinion stuck in my mind like a sponger and made me wonder; should food be recognised as a form of art?
15.06.2018 - 23.06.2018
3:30pm - 6pm Monday to Saturday
Wimbledon College of Arts/ Degree Show
The Sugar Cabin is an immersive, performative, food related art project that aims to stimulate the audience’s senses through the combination of glowing LED’s constructed space and defused icing sugar.
When you enter the cabin, closing behind the LED panel that works as a door, around you just smooth and warm colourful walls. You are in a non-space, surrounded by floating sweetness that insinuates in your body without either your control or agreement.
It’s a miniscule violation of your sensory space.
Every day by the act of ingesting we are being invaded without consciousness by intoxicating substances pumped in anything we consume, smell or touch.
In real life we are powerless and unaware; in the Sugar Cabin your focus is placed, you are not entertained and that is why you can be awakened.
economical dinner
1) “The Total Rustic”: apples cooked in the oven, then stuffed with beans which have been boiled in a sea of milk.
2) “Country Crime” : aubergines cooked in tomatoes, then stuffed with anchovies and served on a bed formed half and half spinach puree and lentils puree.
3) “City Peppers”: big red peppers, each enclosing a poltiglia of cooked apples in a pocket of sugared lettuce leaves.
4) “Flooded Forest at Twilight” : endives cooked in wine, strewn with boiled and sugared beans.
This dinner is eaten while a talented reciter of poetry makes the National Poet Farfa’s humorous lyrics resonate explosively by imitating their typical voice of a short-sighted exhaust pipe.
Formula by the Futurist Aeropoet
MARINETTI
Historical Note: In 1930 Fillipo Marinetti published Futurist Cookbook, in which he gave detailed instructions for modern dining dedicated to Italians. Marinetti has seen dishes mentioned in the book as a works of art, and the whole idea is socially accepted as a work of art, but the book itself is not treated seriously partly because of the extremes of content and partly because of the time and values of the writer, which are standing strongly against contemporary way of thinkng.
Event inspired by Futurist Cookbook “Economical Dinner”. Video is realised in VR (virtual reality 360 view). To watch it please use the head set or computer (spin video with your mouse)
15.06.2018 - 23.06.2018
12am - 3pm Monday to Saturday
Wimbledon College of Arts/ Degree Show
I am trespassing your current experience and projecting the tastes on you, building your taste memory in my fairy tale.
Dining room is an art project in which food tasting is a center point. Participant will be served with 5 dishes. Each dish will accompanied an unusual ingredient - coloured light surrounding the participant.
The goal of the work is to cause synasthesia as the colour of the environment will play the role in perception of the taste.
Every dish served during the project has a special place in my taste memory.
- Childhood -
- family relationships -
- fantasies -
- adolescence -
- love -