Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet
A National Bitter Melon Council Public Sculpture and Interactive Outdoor Installation, June – November 2010 Group Exhibition: EAT LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet was a large-scale, public installation in the form of an organic “farmden”(farm + garden) that housed an experimental effort to breed a hybrid variety of melon, a Bittersweet melon. It was installed as part of the group show, EAT LACMA, at the Los Angeles...
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A National Bitter Melon Council Public, Interactive Intervention, Nov. 7, 2010 Group Exhibition: Let Them EAT LACMA, a 1-day performance event celebrating the closing of the garden-focused exhibition: EAT LACMA (June – November, 2010) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Meeting (and its aftermath) carries the essence and inevitability of human contact: exchange, wonder, and change. This Meeting is Bittersweet, a human-scale manifestation of the National Bitter Melon...
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A Research-Based Performance piece, 2009 Version Fest, Chicago, Il Cultural Prophylactics was a research-based performance piece that poses culture as a matter of public health, as a necessary aspect of free speech in a democracy, and as a commodity with a value beyond financial. It explored the questions: What of our culture requires protection? And what of it should we protect ourselves from? Performed at Version Fest, an arts and culture festival in the South Side of Chicago, in 2009,...
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A National Bitter Melon Council Performance and Public Intervention, 2011 International Pickling Day Festival, Lower East Side, New York, NY Put your Bitterness By was a site-specific intervention at the International Pickling Day Festival of the Food Museum in New York, NY. The National Bitter Melon Council joined pickling enthusiasts from NYC and beyond to celebrate all things preserved, fermented, and put by. The festival was filled with vendors of fermented pickles,...
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A National Bitter Melon Council Participatory Public Intervention, (2006 – present) The Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, MA The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Boston Metro Area (various locations) During the Topsfield fair (pictured), we traveled fairgrounds as the National Bitter Melon Council Mascot. There, we were observing and understanding the particular culture of the oldest agricultural fair in the USA, disguising ourselves as a friendly mascot for an...
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