[23/09/2023]

Intimate Ingesting; Ingesting Intimacy

In collaboration with Fatima Alaiwat. Commissioned by hARTslane Gallery.

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For the first instalment of their 'Dinner Art Project,' hARTslane Gallery in New Cross commissioned fellow artist Fatima Alaiwat and I to create a community focussed event which engaged with the area.

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Focussing on repetition over novelty, as a means of care and intimacy, we explored ways of activating food/eating as practice for relearning, reinvesting and rewilding things we care for. Over the course of the event, we created 3 different foods, all using the same ingredients, to focus on the variability that can be found in repetition. These food centred on the three prompts: one part being the physicality of eating; one about provenance; and one about a poetic intervention. The intention was to explore how these three separate approaches invite modes of intimacy in ingesting.​