Saturday, July 25, 2015

Food? exhibition

Jane and I proposed a group exhibition based on ideas around food.
The result was an exhibition this past week in Projectspace. We're all thrilled at how it went. The opening night was a hit, and the feedback during the week has been fantastic.

Attached is the list of works, and images

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Food?                                                                                    Projectspace Gallery, 21-25 July 2015



Levi Brinsdon-Hall

Bought to you by Farro Fresh
fruit and vegetables. wooden bowl

Every night the show is running for, the artist will go and collect fruit and vegetables that Farro Fresh supermarket has thrown into their bins and will add them to this fruit bowl. 
Participants are invited to take whatever food they may want from this bowl and the following morning it will be replenished by the artist.
*Food has been washed in hot soapy water and then rinsed and dried with a clean towel. All food was thrown out in a fresh produce bag and therefore hasn’t been contaminated with meat or dairy, only other fruits and veg.




Emma Glučina

Golden mornings
coloured glass. plastic. margarine. 

I am interested in the routine of the everyday, where the body has marked an object in passing. Casting has become a tool in which allows me to record these impacts of the body on domesticated objects. By casting an object you ensure that the form will forever continue to exist, therefore all fleeting traces and imprints are caught in time or in a moment, capturing the memory of its mould. I find that this impermanence is fitting, especially in the case for something like food, as it eventually gets eaten, melts, or rots away. Casting for me has been a way of obtaining something that we naturally could not.




Jane Lehtinen

Implanted
headphones. mp3 player. sound piece, spoken by Gene Siewing



Nick Pound

Untitled
blackboard. paper. pins.




Dominique Nicolau (nico)

Survival Tabs/ Survival Blanket.
paper. golden survival/space blanket. flesh coloured gaffer.

I am not advocating Survival Tabs as a survival food replacement. They consist of mostly malt and
milk. There are better alternatives.

Polycaprolactone Balls.
sound.

Soylent.
company promotional video.

Twentythird 23 Evolution.
the ultimate meal replacement. glass dome vitrine. spray paint. golden survival/space blanket.
iHerb.com packaging. flesh coloured gaffer.

Manifest Destiny
plastic. dirty water. wax.

The people on board the Star-Arc did not eat food as we know it. They swallowed synthetic food tabs 6 times a day that contained all the nutrients their bodies needed. As well as a chewing gum to mimic the necessary masticating benefits of chewing food. They also daily swallow a synthetic fibre substance device made predominantly of self-lubricating Polycaprolactone in the form of a small ball, to massage the internal gastoentalogical systems. This is excreted daily, sanitised, re-filled with synthetic fibre and re-used. The socialisation of meal time was no longer an activity that Homosapians henceforth partook of. All the people on board were lean and toned.
Adapting to the food tabs was difficult for the 1st Generation. They all understood the necessity but they missed nothing as much as the missed the comfort of the sustenance of Earth food.


Ollie Roake and Jacqui Margetts

Conversation table
pallet wood. found chrome frame. modified to house conversation box.





Alison Sydenham

Publication editor, food?
140 pages. edition of 10.

Anything to declare?
screen print on cotton. (grocery bag)

Decisions
MDF. acrylic. (dominoes)

Bites
screen print on ply. metal. (rodent traps)

Caution: traps are set.



Ruby Chang-Jet White

Cockfight
bowl set (left, by artist) : slip clay, hand-painted. kauri chopsticks.


bowl set (right, by machines) : clay, machine printed. pine chopsticks.