APOTHEKE
CHARLOTTE JARVIS AND JAMES READWAYS OF EATING2-4 APRIL 2010Ways of Eating: A performance; an installation; a consumption. Ways of Eating, a new work by Charlotte Jarvis and James Read will be hosted over the Easter weekend (2-4 April 2010) at APOTHEKE. Ways of eating takes the form of a dinner party carried out as a durational and disintegrating installation over five hours on three consecutive nights. The performance is a theoretical and literal consumption of John Berger's seminal text, Ways of Seeing, exploring how and why we consume art and images and what factors dictate and manipulate the form of that consumption.Each evening eight new performers are invited to eat at the gallery where, transformed into the exhibit, their own roles, rituals and assumptions are scrutinized by the transient audience passing by. Each of the six courses served is a physical essay on one or more aspects of the Berger text, examining how the meaning of art and images in general is manipulated through the context in which we encounter them, the male and female gaze as played out in the form of the traditional nude and how advertising, art (and perhaps pornography) address the viewer. Expanding from the text the form and presentation of the performance aspires to draw from and dissect Performance Theory (Peggy Phelan), Scopophilia & feminist criticism (Laura Mulvey, Grizelda Pollock, Tessa de Lauretis etc), Fluxus and Relational Aesthetics (Bourriaud). Charlotte and James met after a casual sexual encounter and have since been collaborating through the medium of their Art For Eating projects (www.artforeating.com).
CHARLOTTE JARVIS AND JAMES READ
WAYS OF EATING
2-4 APRIL 2010
Ways of Eating: A performance; an installation; a consumption.
Ways of Eating, a new work by Charlotte Jarvis and James Read will be hosted over the Easter weekend (2-4 April 2010) at APOTHEKE. Ways of eating takes the form of a dinner party carried out as a durational and disintegrating installation over five hours on three consecutive nights.
The performance is a theoretical and literal consumption of John Berger's seminal text, Ways of Seeing, exploring how and why we consume art and images and what factors dictate and manipulate the form of that consumption.
Each evening eight new performers are invited to eat at the gallery where, transformed into the exhibit, their own roles, rituals and assumptions are scrutinized by the transient audience passing by.
Each of the six courses served is a physical essay on one or more aspects of the Berger text, examining how the meaning of art and images in general is manipulated through the context in which we encounter them, the male and female gaze as played out in the form of the traditional nude and how advertising, art (and perhaps pornography) address the viewer.
Expanding from the text the form and presentation of the performance aspires to draw from and dissect Performance Theory (Peggy Phelan), Scopophilia & feminist criticism (Laura Mulvey, Grizelda Pollock, Tessa de Lauretis etc), Fluxus and Relational Aesthetics (Bourriaud).
Charlotte and James met after a casual sexual encounter and have since been collaborating through the medium of their Art For Eating projects (www.artforeating.com).
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