cooking show
(2005)
cooking show is a performance work about the bizarre fragmentation of the forms of cooking shows and cooking books, realized in a performance.
To boil down the essence of cooking procedures, cooking shows and cook books change the order of things, zoom in and out of details, and insert refreshing information here and there. Translating proximity and reordering of procedures back into the live, my cooking show results in further isolation and distortion of the cooking procedures.
The Long Utensils were made to be drawn out of the shaft way towards the basement, to cook up ingredients right in front of the audience members, and to be hung from the ceiling at the end. The impossibility of the long knife cutting a potato, or of the long fork reaching to cook with the flying pan up by the ceiling, is comical and recalls for sensation of such a mandane yet intricate act as handling a knife at a kitchen.
cooking show was performed in the context of cram, an evening-length show by Lower Lights Collective at Chocolate Factory Theater, in November 2005. In cram, each member of Lower Lights Collective brought her/his own independent work, and overlapped it in the same space and time. The collage of individually developed pieces resulted in a rich composition.
料理番組のカメラワークや、料理本の解説の奇妙な段取りを、彫刻的な視点で誇張した。モノとモノの境界線を引いたり、パフォーマンスの動きを断片化することで料理の行程を要約した。又、カメラの角度やズームを、観客との空間構成や距離に置き換えた。長い包丁やおたまを駆使して、天井から垂直にぶら下がるフライパンでスパゲッティ・ポテトソースを調理する、というダンス作品。
このソロ・ダンスは、５つのソロ作品の同時進行を試みたロウアー・ライツ・コレクティブの舞台の一環として発表した。このコレクティブは、他２人の振付師と共に創始して、メンバーを増やしながら２００４年から３年間活動したグループで、ソロ作品を同じ空間で同時に行うという実験を繰り返した。
Image Slideshow
[Photo: TJ Hellmuth]
- Appearance -
December 2005
DRAWN (theater production)
the Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, NY
(cooking show was made during and for an artist residency program with a weekend of evening length theater program)
cooking show is a performance work about the bizarre fragmentation of the forms of cooking shows and cooking books, realized in a performance.
To boil down the essence of cooking procedures, cooking shows and cook books change the order of things, zoom in and out of details, and insert refreshing information here and there. Translating proximity and reordering of procedures back into the live, my cooking show results in further isolation and distortion of the cooking procedures.
The Long Utensils were made to be drawn out of the shaft way towards the basement, to cook up ingredients right in front of the audience members, and to be hung from the ceiling at the end. The impossibility of the long knife cutting a potato, or of the long fork reaching to cook with the flying pan up by the ceiling, is comical and recalls for sensation of such a mandane yet intricate act as handling a knife at a kitchen.
cooking show was performed in the context of cram, an evening-length show by Lower Lights Collective at Chocolate Factory Theater, in November 2005. In cram, each member of Lower Lights Collective brought her/his own independent work, and overlapped it in the same space and time. The collage of individually developed pieces resulted in a rich composition.
料理番組のカメラワークや、料理本の解説の奇妙な段取りを、彫刻的な視点で誇張した。モノとモノの境界線を引いたり、パフォーマンスの動きを断片化することで料理の行程を要約した。又、カメラの角度やズームを、観客との空間構成や距離に置き換えた。長い包丁やおたまを駆使して、天井から垂直にぶら下がるフライパンでスパゲッティ・ポテトソースを調理する、というダンス作品。
このソロ・ダンスは、５つのソロ作品の同時進行を試みたロウアー・ライツ・コレクティブの舞台の一環として発表した。このコレクティブは、他２人の振付師と共に創始して、メンバーを増やしながら２００４年から３年間活動したグループで、ソロ作品を同じ空間で同時に行うという実験を繰り返した。
Image Slideshow
[Photo: TJ Hellmuth]
things
- Appearance -
December 2005
DRAWN (theater production)
the Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, NY
(cooking show was made during and for an artist residency program with a weekend of evening length theater program)