An evening of gastronomy performances at Nonstop

ANARCHY IN THE KITCHEN
Fri March 5
7 PM
Nonstop Institute
305 N. Walnut St, Yellow Springs

ANARCHY IN THE KITCHEN
an evening of live performances (via skype) curated by LAURA MCGOUGH

NEIL COLETTA, Food Studies scholar, will be present following the performances to talk about intersections of food, media, art, and social justice issues.

Anarchy in the Kitchen, an evening of gastronomy performances (via skype from Baltimore) exploring digestibility, consumption, good taste, domesticity, hunger, and accessibility, is curated by Laura McGough for the 2010 Umami International Festival of Food and Art.

Following the performances Neil Coletta, Food Studies scholar and Antioch College alum, will be present to talk about intersections of food, art and media, including reflections on former Antioch College Music Professor John Ronsheim's prescient vision for this now-emerging field.

The Umami Festival of Food and Art brings together artists and food professionals who use food as a medium to present multi-sensory experiences in the theatre, gallery, or dining room.. The event will consist of a series of seven performances, punctuated by brief dramatic readings, sonic projects and videos designed to refresh the audiences' palate. Over the course of the evening, edible books will be read and consumed, kitchen aids will be used to generate a musical score, newspaper will be transformed into soup, and lemons will be used as a battery source to whip merengue. Anarchy in the Kitchen is co-sponsored by The Department of Visual Arts of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Participating artists in the evening Anarchy in the Kitchen include Graham Coreil-Allen, Steve Bradley, "bunny and chick" (Tim Nohe and Marian April Glebes), Bradley Chriss, Adam Good, Carolina Mayorga, Lisa Moren, Rebecca Nagle, Natalia Panfile, Casey Smith, and Shannon Young.


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Curator and Commentator:

Laura McGough is a curator, media artist, and food activist. Over the past 20 years, she has organized exhibitions, screenings, and performances for organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Her writings on the visual arts, technology, and performance have appeared in such publications as Sculpture, NewArts Examiner, Experimental and Digital Creativity. She has served on the editorial boards of Performance Research, FUSE Magazine and The Journal of Agriculture and Food Systems Development and from 2000 to 2003 was employed as the Multidisciplinary Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently completing an interdisciplinary M.A. degree in Food Studies and Performance Studies at New York University.

Neil Coletta is Assistant Director, Programs in Food, Wine & the Arts at Boston University and a 2001 Antioch College alum.

Artists & Performances:

Pistols and Apple Pie by "bunny and chick" (Tim Nohe and Marian April Glebes)
"bunny and chick' is a sound art duo that creates sonic events using domestic routines as "scores". The duo uses "real" instruments, toys, consumer goods, and kitchen aids to generate sound. For Anarchy in the Kitchen, "bunny and chick" will create and perform a music/cooking/consumption score about pistols and apple pie.

New Public Sites - Video Tour - Tinges Commons by Graham Coreil-Allen
Coreil-Allen will take viewers on a tour the intersection of Frisby and 33rd Streets, in Waverly, Baltimore, which was re-aligned during the construction of a huge, suburban style Giant grocery store. The leftover space, formerly Frisby Street, was left unpaved into a grassy lot accented by a few struggling trees. That lot is now a community garden and public art space. During the guided tour, Coreil-Allen will poetically describe the contradictions between the suburban supermarket behemoth and its urban context, and how its reverberations within the street grid beget a temporary autonomous zone of gardening and art.

Meat Poem #6 (man becoming machine chews to the future) by Bradley Chriss
For his performance, Chriss will merge his identity with that of a sausage grinding and machine, performing a "meat poem" that will find him stuffing natural casings with ground beef and spices that are pushed through his mouth. The sausages will be cooked and served to the audience later in the Webcast.

Newspaper Soup by Carolina Mayorga
Newspaper Soup is a performance art piece in which the artist/promoter introduces a revolutionary pre-packed product to the audience ? "Newspaper Soup". A sample of the soup will be prepared on site and the audience will have the opportunity to taste it.

15 Minute Performance by Rebecca Nagle
15 Minute Performance is an on-going, interactive web-based performance in which Nagle asks viewers to choose an activity for her to perform for fifteen minutes. Prior to the Anarchy in the Kitchen, Nagle will fast for several days. Prior to the Webcast, individuals will be invited send email and text message Nagle suggestions of different food items for her to eat during her performance. Using her starving body as a site for enactment, Nagle will feast upon the suggested food items.

EATING WORDS by Casey Smith
EATING WORDS is a performance piece by poet Casey Smith that explores the taste and texture of language in literal fashion. When we speak we emit words from the mouth, and when we listen we take in words through the ears. But what happens when we take back our words, when we eat them? This performance contextualizes simple notions of human communication as a bodily event, and in so doing demonstrates the materiality of language in everyday life.

Portable Salad (A Harvest performance) by Shannon Young
For Anarchy in the Kitchen, Young will grow a portable salad garden in a shopping cart which she will then "harvest" during the Webcast and use to prepare a salad for the UMBC audience.


PERFORMANCE INTERLUDES:

Culinary Remixes by Adam Good
Poet Adam Good will perform brief remixes of various culinary texts from the Joy of Cooking to MFK Fischer's Serve It Forth.

Sonic Interludes by Steve Bradley
Bradley will perform transitional scores between performances that link each performer's piece to the next. Instruments for these 2-5 minute sound art works include different cooking utensils and bowls, selected foods, heat, oil, and water.

Lemons Making Their Own Merengue Pie by Lisa Moran
Moren documents a cadre of "performing lemons" that are used as batteries to power kitchen gadgets and whip-up a merengue pie.

Happy Birthday by Natalia Panfile
In this video performance, Panfile sings "Happy Birthday" in Romanian while birthday cake is being hurled at her.

For further information contact: Chris Hill, 767-2327 (chris.hill@nonstopinstitute.org) or see our website: nonstopinstitute.org