A performance event part of the Towards an Everyday Meal project by ERIN BRUBACHER, NEVENA PAUNOVIC AND MIN K. SHIN
On Friday 11th December 2009 we created an ‘occasional’ meal-performance that was the culmination of Towards An Everyday Meal, a layered project by Erin Brubacher, Nevena Paunović, and Min K. Shin as a part of our Research in International Performance at Warwick.
We three set out in search of the everyday meal and found that in order to find it, we needed to find ways of evoking the occasion in the everyday.
The starting point for the project was our shared interest in food and the meal as performance mediums in everyday life. We focused on the performance of meals and the activities surrounding them. We wanted to explore the notion of an everyday meal: a meal being a specific space and time (the etymology of the word meal itself is derived from the word time) during the day, dedicated to consuming food. We were interested in the structuring of that time and how it determines and effects the entirety of our collective sense of time in our individual and shared lives. What kind of social action would be performed if we altered the time we allowed for the meal in the everyday?
Initially, we wanted to discover/ create a “dramaturgy” of and for our everyday meals, conscientious of our different cultural backgrounds and eating habits. Our main research question was how a ritualized relationship with everyday meals could raise our awareness of ourselves and each other in the worlds we live in...
See also: Artist Trading Card Event
