Share With Me a Meal and Your Thoughts, 2018
Participatory performance
Partly inspired by the work of Rirkrit Tiravinija, ‘Share With Me a Meal and Your Thoughts’ involves the artist handing out a home-cooked meal (tandoori chicken, dal, rice, salad and yoghurt) to whoever asks of it. In return, the audience must sit with a fellow audience member they do not know, or are only acquainted with, and share a meal together.
Over the course of the meal the newly-acquainted audience members will be asked to share a piece of knowledge with the other, to teach each other something they know. This could be anything; a few phrases in their native language, the best method for fishing for trout, a family recipe, how to make an origami swan, or a cool theory they learnt in a lecture.
This process of sitting and sharing a meal forms bonds, and by encouraging the sharing of knowledge, the artist provides a vessel for human connections to be made. The relational aesthetics of the interactions between two strangers forms the artwork of this piece.
As part of the Hogacre Art Show 2018