Posts Tagged ‘food’
Performance rund um den Wind
October 20, 2011
Performance rund um den Wind For this performance I prepared goo-duck (a duck inside a goose) and served it as a public meal, made of air, at the foot of one of the wind turbines in Schöppingen. It was a way of addressing a pressing issue: creativity and renewable energy. Fellows from the Stiftung Kunstlerdorf [...]
2011 | performance, Works | Media: food, human body, performance, ritual | Tags: food, outdoor, renewable energy, ritual, rural, Schöppingen, taste
BlackXican Pozole
June 24, 2011
BlackXican Pozole all photos, courtesy Alberto Aguilar Gwenn-Aël LYNN and Hermes Santana (a chef from the neighbourhood of Pilsen in Chicago) teamed up to make and serve a pozole dinner in a performative way, emphasizing its olfactory dimension. Pozole is a traditional Mexican dish. In this case it reflected the hybridity of the chef who [...]
2011 | performance, Works | Media: performance | Tags: Chicago, collaboration, food, sound, taste
Tea is the Needle
May 5, 2011
Tea is the Needle This performance took place at the Nida Art Colony, in Lithuania during the T-R-A-C-E-S symposium: reinventing interdisciplinarity. I devised a tea ritual based on five herbs that grow on the Curonian Spit: Thymus serpyllum, Fragaria vesca, Hypericum perforatum, Rosa canina, Achillea millefolia. The goal of this performance was to [...]
2011 | performance, Works | Media: herbal tea, performance, ritual, sound | Tags: collaboration, food, herbal tea, Lithuania, olfaction, ritual, sound, symposium, taste, tea, transdisciplinary, transnational
Delocalized-Relocalized
November 8, 2008
Delocalized-Relocalized Collaborative Performance with Valeria Cotaimich, Andrea Inocencio, Gwenn-Ael Lynn, Melina Pena. If you would like to see a longer, more complete version of this performance archive go here and here
2008 | performance, Works | Media: performance | Tags: collaboration, food, herbal tea, Paris, ritual, tea, transnational, wine
Great Lakes Herbal Tea Project
August 10, 2007
Great Lakes Herbal Tea Project [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois. Plants, tea kettle, modified tube (for the sound), hot plates, wood shelves, glass cups. An installation/performance. 5 herbs/roots native to the Great Lakes region, each emitting a specific pitch while boiling, were served to visitors. Scents and sounds were [...]
2007 | installation, performance, Works | Media: installation, performance, sound | Tags: Chicago, food, herbal tea, olfaction, taste, tea
Tea Time
May 15, 2004
Tea Time Filmed by Aminatou Echard
2004 | installation, Works | Media: glass jars, herbal tea, installation, sugar, sunlight, wood | Tags: food, Paris, sunlight, taste, tea
Performance nutritive disseminée en trois points
December 9, 2003
Performance nutritive disséminée en trois points Cette performance se produisit lors du colloque-disloque ” L’art et le politique interloqués ” organisée par l’APPA, ligne de recherche à la Sorbonne. Trois performers entraient en conversation avec les passants autour de l’histoire coloniale des aliments qu’ils offraient gratuitement: chai (thé Indien), maïs grillée et cacahuètes. [...]
2003 | performance, Works | Media: food, performance | Tags: food, Limoges, Paris, political, post-colonial, street, symposium, tea, transdisciplinary, urban
24 heures
June 2, 2002
24 heures “24 Heures” performance non stop d’une durée de 24 heures en collaboration avec Kamal Karry (danseur-choregraphe) et Antony Maubert (musicien-compositeur) dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris à l’espace “En Cours”, rue de la réunion. Le but de cette action publique fut de favoriser l’expérience personnelle, à travers les sens, les échanges entre [...]
2002 | installation, performance, Works | Media: installation, performance, sound | Tags: collaboration, food, Paris, sound, street, taste, tea, urban
Untitled (2002)
May 2, 2002
Untitled (2002) This installation is a spatial and historical conjunction. Once a day, when in the proper axis, the sun projects over four food items laying on the ground the etymology of their names. Thus evoking their colonial history. Etymology : tomato : n. f. 1598 ; Nahuatl : tomatl chocolate: n.m. 1598 ; Nahuatl chocolatl manioc (tapioca) : [...]