[20/07/25]

WALK, in response to artwork by Alisa Oleva for Build Hollywood. Original listing.

Photos by Barney Pau.

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For this commission, I was asked to interpret the walking artist Alisa Oleva's work into an edible experience to celebrate the end of her residency with Build Hollywood. Drawing from the themes of her 12 walks over the past year, I developed a menu which encouraged guests to think outside the box and renegotiate their relationship with food. The dishes were as follows:

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[1] In between maps: Where the more-than-human thrives
Crudités, crudités stem upwards. Meadow herb-flavoured pea & bean dips.

[2] Look up and reflect
Fried knotweed leaves filled w/ whipped tofu & wild garlic salt, and macerated foraged figs, both hanging from a metal canopy for guests to 'pick' from.

[3] Listen to the textures
Cress. Crackers. Buckwheat nests.

[4] Don’t follow the line
Fermented foraged fig tonic.

[5] Let the city move you: Ode to the corner shop
Melon & mango cubes, to be dipped in corner shop-inspired flavours such as cream & onion, chilli heatwave, pickled onion.

[6] Ways of walking near and far
Blackberry cake with mint leaves, & fermented blackberry coulis perched on a wire 'bramble' tangle.

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About Alisa's work: "Over the past 12 months we have brought people together to explore walking the city in a playful, critical, thoughtful and poetic way. These walks have offered alternative techniques to look and engage with the streets around us, covering themes such as following to mapping, angles to distances, listening and touching. Each walk has given participants the chance to take part in an act of collective close looking and reimagining – opening up spaces we don’t usually notice to make visible different ways of thinking about the city and being in it."