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Experimental Eating
Profiling a range of culinary pioneers working across the fields of art, science, theatre, catering and design, Experimental Eating demonstrates how current creative collaborations are pushing the boundaries of how we understand, experience and relate to food and the rituals of dining.
The book encompasses unusual and cutting-edge foods, radical dining events, “kitchen laboratory” experiments, food sculptures and other documentation of the transient events that make up this field of work.
A selection of short essays situate these contemporary practices alongside various historical and cultural contexts, a history of food in modern and contemporary art, such as Gordon Matta-Clarke’s FOOD café, Rikrit Tiravanija’s FREE and Pad Thai events, and Grizedale Arts and Yangjiany Group’s makeshift cafe for Frieze Projects 2012; a study of the connections between dining, theatre and ritual; and a survey of recent research in science and technology, and how this may impact on how we make, eat and perceive food.
The book encompasses unusual and cutting-edge foods, radical dining events, “kitchen laboratory” experiments, food sculptures and other documentation of the transient events that make up this field of work.
A selection of short essays situate these contemporary practices alongside various historical and cultural contexts, a history of food in modern and contemporary art, such as Gordon Matta-Clarke’s FOOD café, Rikrit Tiravanija’s FREE and Pad Thai events, and Grizedale Arts and Yangjiany Group’s makeshift cafe for Frieze Projects 2012; a study of the connections between dining, theatre and ritual; and a survey of recent research in science and technology, and how this may impact on how we make, eat and perceive food.
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192 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 2014
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January 28, 2022
Mostly into my friend Matt's in the real world data visualization project that's featured.
April 19, 2015
This book was about the intersection of science, art and eating. Or kinda... There was a four part split and essays. Some of the artists works that make me want to look further into stuff they are doing and some offered provocations that will generate a blog post or two. Art is part of a conversation and when we are talking about meals and food, that conversation happens at different times.
Here are some of the bits that got me going...
Sweet Play - Elsa Lambinet (mix n match chocolates)
Center for Genomic Gastronomy - just think of that for a few seconds
Food Data Hacks - Another website, real world kinda thing
Vegan Ortolan - Approaches my interest with vegan meat and pushes it further. (I dislike the idea of making veggies into meatstuffs but when you push it this way, it becomes confrontational and whimsical at the same time)
Condiment Junkie - a blog?
Antipode by Rob Dunne (a coffee whisky drink but something more)
These are the artists that struck me but by no means the most interesting profiles. Anyways, I will probably have a blog post or two on these things.
Here are some of the bits that got me going...
Sweet Play - Elsa Lambinet (mix n match chocolates)
Center for Genomic Gastronomy - just think of that for a few seconds
Food Data Hacks - Another website, real world kinda thing
Vegan Ortolan - Approaches my interest with vegan meat and pushes it further. (I dislike the idea of making veggies into meatstuffs but when you push it this way, it becomes confrontational and whimsical at the same time)
Condiment Junkie - a blog?
Antipode by Rob Dunne (a coffee whisky drink but something more)
These are the artists that struck me but by no means the most interesting profiles. Anyways, I will probably have a blog post or two on these things.
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