Good? Food? Responsibility!

“Think, dream, and act according to what they eat and drink.” Ever since Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto, there have always been aesthetic associations between food and culture.

For this performance piece, I used the structure of the art gallery and certain conventions of eating as an outlet for investigations into everyday life situations through a level of abstraction, exaggeration, and absurdity, which are alternative models for substituting relations between human and animal, the individual and society.

I am hosting a dinner party in the gallery.

Captain Smith and Pocahontas

had a very mad affair

Playing Peggy Lee’s song Fever from my phone, I used my eyes, nose, lips, limbs, and each inch square of my body to enjoy, to dance with and to present this pile of fleshy meat, which I had brought onto the “stage” in a grocery shopping bag. Toward the end of the performance, after collecting preferences from the audience, I prepared this beef tartare with conventional cooking methods, beginning with the seasoning.

To pepper the food, I prepared it with flavors from the social sphere (like ecological protests and (u)topian ideologies of factory farming), and I adapted the advertising slogan from a popular meat production brand in order to present to you “Good? Food? Responsibility!”