Food & Performance

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Next F&P: November 19 & 20

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Our next F&P will be Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20 at Defibrillator Gallery!

Do you have an idea for an F&P performance? We'd love to hear about it!
Click here to download the proposal form: fpproposal.pdf

The deadline for proposals for the fall F&P is September 15.

Summer F&P: June 18 and 19

2011-05-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Photo by Nick Azzaro
From F&P March 2011

DEFIBRILLATOR Performance Art Gallery
1136 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642
$10 tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/177674 or at the door.

F&P has limited capacity, so pre-event ticket purchases are highly encouraged.

F&P is a showcase of performance art involving edibles. Artists interact directly with audience members who are welcome to roam, taste, and engage in a variety of performances occurring simultaneously throughout the gallery. Whether decorating a personalized birthday cake, participating in a bratwurst eating contest, or sampling dinner party hors d'oeuvres, this event will surely activate all the senses.

F&P artists are at the crossroad of consumption and body, creating work that grapples with the questions of how food nourishes, revolts, entices, rewards, shames, comforts, seduces, and builds community. F&P artists push the boundaries of these questions and invite audiences to partake in the feast.

Artists:
DANI BRYANT: Kitchen – You are the guest as a woman, alone in her kitchen, frantically prepares for a dinner party.

NICOLE GARNEAU: Stain – The artist invites you to be part of her beet obsession.

ELENA KATSULIS & ERIN PEISERT: She. Never. Gives. Up. – Are women utilitarian objects? They will provide for you, and often go unrecognized. To serve, fulfill, and please you.

TREVOR MARTIN & VICKI FOWLER: Six Scenes and an Epilogue – Using fortune cookies as vessels to contain short scripts for micro-performances, an exchange is constructed between the artists, Saint Joan of Arc, and the viewer.

CAROLE MCCURDY & CATHERINE YANES: Best of the Wurst – Mama rocks your bratwurst yearnings in a race to the juicy end. You can be the Wiener!

MEGAN RHYME (Saturday only): Inheritance of Cake – a movement meditation on the legacy of birthday cake decorating.

CRISTAL SABBAGH (Sunday only): Starfish baby – "Multiplying by fission is just one of my God given talents. In anticipation of the birth of myself, I would love to offer you sustenance and fellowship" – Prince

JILL WACHHOLZ: Metamorfafood – Turn your junk food fetish into deep fulfillment in one mighty bite.

F&P is an ongoing showcase curated by Ania Greiner and Jessica Hannah.
Contact at foodperformance@gmail.com

ASTRO POET SENSORY MEMBRANE by Carolyn Hoerdemann & Dani Bryant

2011-05-16T11:04:00.000-07:00

Food: rose water, frangelico, fennel, olives, Indian sweets, oil
A durational promenade of three rotating etudes sharing inspirations from the Futurist Cookbook
F&P March 2011

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

CHEMICAL QUEENS by Carron Little, with Holly Stotler

2011-05-16T11:02:00.000-07:00

Food: Marzipan Toes and Icing with Cordial
Two Queens experiment with toxic solutions and force feeding
F&P March 2011

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Cesario Moza

THE HUG PROJECT (SUGAR POEM) by Aurora Tabar & Sara Zalek, with Carole McCurdy

2011-05-16T10:58:00.000-07:00

Food: Sugar Cookies
An invitation to hug and taste
F&P March 2011

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann

Photo by Nick Azzaro

I WILL IF YOU DO by Erin Peisert & Elena Katsulius

2011-05-16T10:52:00.000-07:00

Food: Peaches
Inspired by social expectations of modesty, women, and their relationship to each other
F&P March 2011

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann

MILK NEST by Janet Schmid

2011-05-16T10:38:00.000-07:00

Food: Grassy Worms and Ants on a Log
An installation nest made of repurposed materials provides a safe haven for feeding
F&P March 2011

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Cesario Moza

SPOILED by Jeffrey Grauel

2011-05-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

Food: Hostess® Ding Dongs® Snack Cakes
A roving conversation about fondness for junk food
F&P March 2011

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann

TEA ROOM by Fereshteh Toosi

2011-05-16T10:28:00.000-07:00

Food: Olives
A box of tactile engagements and mouth watering feeding
F&P March 2011

Photo by Cesario Moza

photo by Nick Azzaro

Next F&P: June 18 and 19

2011-04-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

Our next F&P will be Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19 at Defibrillator Gallery!

Do you have an idea for an F&P performance? We'd love to hear about it!
Click here to download the proposal form: fpproposal.pdf

Next F&P: March 12 and 13!

2011-02-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

Increasingly in recent years, the collective conscious is challenging the way humans receive nourishment, apparent in the works of Michael Pollan, Community Supported Agriculture, and The Slow Food movement, to name a few. The kitchen is the gathering place, the heart of the home and as such is the center of our domestic rituals, the place where our physical selves refuel. This physical body is also the center of the performing arts, where voice and movement express our humanity and the ephemeral nature of existence.

F&P artists are at this crossroad of consumption and body, creating work that grapples with the questions of how food nourishes, revolts, entices, rewards, shames, comforts, seduces, and builds community. F&P artists push the boundaries of these questions and invite audiences to partake in the feast.

Artists:
Jeffrey Grauel

Spoiled- A roving conversation about fondness for junk food.

Carolyn Hoerdemann

Astro Poet Sensory Membrane- A durational promenade of three rotating etudes sharing inspirations from the Futurist Cookbook.

Carron Little

Chemical Queens- Two Queens experiment with toxic solutions and force feeding.

Erin Peisert & Elena Katsulius

I Will If You Do- Inspired by the social expectations of modesty, women, and their relationship to each other.

Janet Schmid

Milk Nest- An installation nest made of repurposed materials provides a safe haven for feeding.

Fereshteh Toosi

Tea Room- A box of tactile engagements and mouth watering feeding.

Aurora Tabar & Sara Zalek

The Hug Project-An invitation to hug and taste.

Dates: Saturday March 12 & Sunday, March 13 2011, 7pm

Location: DEFIBRILLATOR Performance Art Gallery

1136 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642

RSVP to attend this private event. foodperformance@gmail.com
In your email, please include the date you’d like to attend and the total number of guests.

$10 Suggested Donation.

Contact: Jessica Hannah and Ania Greiner at foodperformance@gmail.com.
More information on F&P: http://foodperformance.blogspot.com/
Defibrillator: http://www.dfbrl8r.com

F & P - A Food & Performance Event

2011-01-08T10:09:00.000-08:00

F & P was the second performance showcase exploring food and performance art, curated by Jessica Hannah and Ania Greiner.
When: November 13 and 14, 2010
Where: Apartment in Little Village, Chicago
Artists: Ayako Kato, Fereshteh Toosi, Heather Hartley and Casey Murtaugh, Joseph Ravens, Meg Duguid and Catie Olson, Nicole LeGette
Hostesses: Janet Schmid, Jessica Hannah, Ania Greiner

Photos by Sarah Jane Rhee

LIVING (ROOM) CEREMONY by Ayako Kato

2011-01-08T09:48:00.002-08:00

Food: Hot Tea

"__________________________" by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson

2011-01-08T09:48:00.000-08:00

Food: Death by Chocolate Cake

BIRD SPELLS by Fereshteh Toosi

2011-01-08T09:46:00.001-08:00

Food: Birdseed Salad Sandwiches
Docent: Negin Almassi

PLEASE & THANK YOU by Heather Hartley and Casey Murtaugh

2011-01-08T09:45:00.000-08:00

Food: Calamari, Olives, Pineapple

VISCERA by Joseph Ravens

2011-01-08T09:42:00.001-08:00

Food: Gumballs

OF BRUTALITY AND BEAUTY by Nicole LeGette

2011-01-08T09:38:00.000-08:00

Food: Spring Rolls and Sauces
Docent: Catherine Yanes

F & P - A Food & Performance Event

2010-11-14T08:02:00.000-08:00

A Food & Performance Event

We asked a group of artists how they would incorporate edible food into performance. The results are tantalizing! Join us for a tasty showcase of food and performance in a Chicago home in the Little Village neighborhood. We invite you to witness, interact, and taste.

November 13 and 14, 7pm
2226 S. Marshall Blvd, accessible via pink line and buses.
$10 suggested donation

Featuring artists: Ayako Kato, Casey Murtaugh, Catie Olson, Fereshteh Toosi, Heather Hartley, Joseph Ravens, Meg Duguid, Nicole LeGette

Space is extremely limited. You must RSVP to attend. Email your name and the number of guests that will attend to: foodperformance@gmail.com

pArty In Your Mouth

2010-06-21T13:21:00.000-07:00

pArty In Your Mouth was a performance showcase exploring food and performance art, curated by Jessica Hannah and Ania Greiner. We invited a select limited audience to experience the work and stay to give their immediate feedback.

When: Saturday, June 12, 7pm-9pm
Where: Ania & Greg's apartment, Logan Square, Chicago
Artists: Katherine Behar, Meg Duguid and Catie Olson, Gregory Gillam, Jessica Hannah, Nicole LeGette, Clover Morell, Joseph Ravens, Mitch Salm, Janet Schmid, 3 Card Molly (Liz Winfield and Ania Greiner)

Photos by Vicente Vasquez

welcome ritual

2010-06-21T13:14:00.000-07:00

Featuring Jessica Hannah, Mitch Salm, and Gregory Gillam as the docents/hand washers/beverage servers and 3 Card Molly serving Tiny Morsels (tea sandwiches: bread with butter, egg salad, salmon salad, watercress, sprouts)

nurturance by Clover Morell

2010-06-21T13:12:00.000-07:00

a little refresher (flavored ice babies)

amuse bouche by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson

2010-06-21T13:10:00.000-07:00

tartlets with duck meat

egg by Janet Schmid

2010-06-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

oolong marinated quail eggs on a bed of black sesame seeds

drink break

2010-06-21T13:06:00.000-07:00

lemonade (spiked or virgin)

of brutality and beauty by Nicole LeGette

2010-06-21T13:04:00.000-07:00

spring rolls, rice paper wrapper, ginger, wasabi, soy sauce, strawberries, lemon

viscera by Joseph Ravens

2010-06-21T13:01:00.000-07:00

gumballs

tiny morsels by 3 Card Molly

2010-06-21T12:58:00.000-07:00

tea sandwiches: bread with butter, egg salad, salmon salad, watercress, sprouts