The contents of this book record an artistic participatory performance dinner created with the help of other artists. The event took place in a barn in upstate New York. The wooden box contains a booklet and a card attached to the inside cover. The booklet is the “recipe book,” its pages are pieces of the paper “tablecloths” from the event. They record the spills from food and drink. The text interspersed between these pages is comprised of the menu and of the poems, by Pia Marrella Cisternino, read at the meal. Opening the card on the inside cover of the box activates an integrated sound module, which plays sounds from the event.
Paper, wine and soup stains, egg shells, bread crumbs, linen thread, inkjet printed photographs, text ink-jet printed on vellum, integrated sound module, wooden box
size of booklets: 7 x 7 x 0.75 in.
size of wooden box: 8 x 8.25 x 1.75 in.
ceramic bowls in photographs by Jenny Peace
projected image in barn photograph by Michael Rubottom