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| Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch Orphic Memory Sausage Help us make Orphic Memory Sausages!
Everyone will thus be able to take home a link of collective memory sausage at the end of the day. Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8th and 9th, @ 8PM Tickets include admission to Water Tasting on Tue April 8th @ 7PM or to a Chocolate Tasting on Wed April 9th @ 7PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Fast ForwardMusique a'la Mode Composer Fast Forward is well known for including kitchen paraphernalia in his performances, but to date he has never gone 'all the way'. That is about to change for the Umami Festival where he will unleash the world premiere of Musique a'la Mode, a concert in which ALL his instruments will be derived from the common day kitchen. Pots, pans, bowls, cutlery, food, liquids and more will be part of the battery for this sonic culinarian's concert. It could change your entire approach to home cooking. Friday and Saturday, April 11th and 12th, @ 8PM Tickets include admission to Salt Tasting on Fri April 11th at 7PM or to Artist's Book/Cook Panel on Sat April 12th @ 6PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ensemble 209
This is part of a larger project titled L.E.P.P.: Lesson on Performance in English During 2006 Tamar Raban began to create a series of exploratory performances as the foundation of a kind of living dictionary of actions and images. The random selection of words (each time different words) starting with letters that make up the term "performance" acts as the stimulus for building a performative syntax. Rules: Thursday, April 17th @ 9PM, Gala performance and Friday, April 18th @ 8PM Tickets include admission to Gala Event on Thu April 17th @ 7 PM or to Israeli Wine Tasting on Fri April 18th @ 6PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf (EIDIA House) Saturday, April 12th, @ 6PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annie Lanzillotto [more] Echoing the experience of a New York street scene, we present a varitey of smells, sounds, and sights, co-existing and competing for attention. Familiar objects, from ice cream to cookbooks, are presented in new and unexpected ways. As street vendors offer exotic twists on common products, screenings of artists' food films and a display of artists' cookbooks complete the carnival atmosphere. Monday, April 14 @ 7PM and Tuesday, April 15th @ 8PM Tickets include admission to Experimental Cuisine Collective panel on Mon April 14th @ 4PM or to Food/Art Roundtable on Tue April 15th @ 6PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judith Levin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ame Gilbert
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performance based around words derived from the linguistic milieu of
food and cooking and begin with the letters that make up the term
PERFORMANCE. During the course of the piece the performers create a
rich text comprised of action, object, image, word and the sounds that
emanate from them. The letters of the word PERFORMANCE are represented
on 11 work surfaces on which the participants "cook" the event. The
surfaces, as well as food products, dishes, and cooking utensils change
their place and role throughout the piece to create a new "dish." In
Hebrew, "foodies" often equate exquisite gourmet food with poetry. In
this performance, the poetic structure and poetic nature are indicators
of the dish and its cooking/writing as poetry, only here the result is
unusual. 