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Profile :: Café Prèsque
Café Prèsque is a group of creatives brought together through food. Beginning their collaborations somewhat tentatively with ‘studio-pizza’ earlier this year, their studio-based escapades have delighted in the comestible. Working as a whole or in various pairings, investigations have featured sushi, salads, mulled wine, full blown Sunday roasts and elaborate 4-course meals. Café Prèsque is TINATA September’s guest artist, presenting A Meal of Style Café Prèsque is: Adriano de C. Rampazzo (b. São Paulo, 1985): Maître de Bonne Goût, Chef Espéciale Lives and works in London. BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College, London. Diploma in Culinary Arts, Anhembi Morumbi University, São Paulo. www.adrianorampazzo.net George F. F. Dolan (b. Liverpool, 1990): Visionary and Confectionary Connoisseur Lives and works in … Continue reading
Profile :: The Gut Club
The Gut Club’s first public work was an invitation to a talk on the effects of economic austerity on art practice. We sourced the ingredients of a soup within central London with the limitations that we couldn’t use shops or money. More importantly we prepared, cooked and served the food as our talk – we spoke directly to the nose, mouth and belly – with the smells, tastes, textures and temperatures. It was polished off and created extraordinary reactions within the context. For the Gut Club, the stomach, intestine, liver and kidney, urinary tract and colon –the enteric nervous system, ENS, – is the original brain. The production, processing and imbibing of food is the absolute centre of cultural … Continue reading
Profile :: Amy Godfrey
Amy Godfrey is completing her training as a food anthropologist, specialising in the role of theatre as a tool for exploration and discussion and the performative nature of obesity and dieting. With a broad experience including work as a storyteller and maker of bread and jam as well as several years in both the health and the environment sectors, Amy completed her first solo show The Biscuit Chronicles at the Brighton Festival in 2010. Now, she is beginning to bring together the disparate elements of her experience to research the links between the liminal qualities of obesity and theatre, the loss of traditional food ways in the industrialisation of the … Continue reading
Profile :: Spork Club
Spork Club is a group of international visual artists and performance makers that share a preoccupation with all things edible. They eat with their hands and play with their food. They make interactive art events that use food to explore contemporary social codes and behavior. The Spork Club was May’s guest Artist, with: At The Table
Profile :: Jesse Darling
Jesse Darling is an artist of various media working in London and beyond. Jesse Darling currently works in installation, performance, digital and video, but trained in physical theatre and worked as a cook for several years, in which time she founded a restaurant where the chefs worked naked, catered for the Trotskyists at the Fourth International, and served soup on the frontline at a riot. For This Is Not A Takeaway she will bring together aspects of what she sees as a continuous practice centered around embodiment, the principle of contingency and an ongoing exploration of what it means to be alive. Jesse Darling has performed, published and exhibited internationally. Jesse is August … Continue reading
Profile :: Nora Silva
Nora Silva is a Spanish artist based in London. She started a degree in Fine Arts in Madrid and then transfered to Wimbledon College of Arts to complete her studies in London. Her work usually involves food, so she decided to go to cooking school after graduating from Wimbledon. At the moment she is training in Westminster Kingsway College, with the purpose of merging art and food in her work. She is also interested in collaborative practises, hence she created MilesKm with artist Sofia Montenegro, an international collaborative artist network that organizes an event once a year in a different city. Nora is TINATA July’s guest artist, presenting Umami http://cargocollective.com/norateignora
Profile :: Velvet Zoe Ramos
Velvet Zoe Ramos was born in the USA and grew up on the island of Aruba. She lives and works in London and has been involved in a number of exhibition projects. Strongly influenced by Alfredo Jaar she refrains from using images of victims and explores different approaches to contextualise her work. With her ‘performance-related’ installations she draws attention to the pain of the other without exploiting their suffering. Ramos prepares simple dishes made from ingredients supplied in emergency aid drops. Guests are invited to scoop the food with ‘plasma cut’ hollowed spoons. The process of adding food onto rice bread or plates proofs to be slow and ineffective. This … Continue reading