5/16/11

Summer F&P: June 18 and 19

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

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




Photo by Nick Azzaro

CHEMICAL QUEENS by Carron Little, with Holly Stotler

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 Nick Azzaro

Photo by Nick Azzaro








Photo by Cesario Moza

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

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


Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann

Photo by Nick Azzaro








Photo by Nick Azzaro

I WILL IF YOU DO by Erin Peisert & Elena Katsulius

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 Nick Azzaro

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Cesario Moza

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Nick Azzaro

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann










MILK NEST by Janet Schmid

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 Nick Azzaro




Photo by Cesario Moza

SPOILED by Jeffrey Grauel

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


Photo by Dubi Kaufmann

Photo by Dubi Kaufmann