BEATING THE MEAT
ARTIST TALK with CONCEPTUAL COOKING
With: Nezaket Ekici, Mariana Hahn, Ian Haig, Sarah Lüdemann, and Li Zhenhua
13 July @ 7-10pm
At Momentum, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
"Beating the Meat" Artist Talk and Conceptual Cooking from Momentum Worldwide on Vimeo.
Part of the Exhibition
FLESH on FLESH
7 July – 6 August 2017 @ MOMENTUM Berlin
In Cooperation With
In 2017 with the theme “vs. Meat”, Berlin Food Art Week addresses topics such as human and animal rights, conscious consumption, environmental issues and sustainability. We are many, and as we all must eat, our diet has a huge influence on our environment. How we deal with our nature and animals, the overproduction, food quality, the impact on the planet and its cultures? These are the issues that are brought to the stage, using art and food to bring attention and awareness.
Inverting the vegetarian premise of this edition of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon cultural practices and taboos. Raw meat, the very visceral building block of all animal life, whether in a kitchen or under a surgeon’s knife, is a substance which in some elicits hunger, in others disgust. Indifference is not an option – especially in this exhibition where the artists each in their own way, some gruesome and others humorous, subvert the loaded meanings of meat.
ARTIST’S TALKS VIEWS
Photo Credit: Leslie Ranzoni and Mizuki Kin