A Feast on Tableness and Visceral Hands

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    • An interrupted dialogue taking place during a feast: city noises, words mis-spelled or etymologically mis-routed,

    “We have to choose whether to speak or to eat: we must not speak with our mouth full.” 

    – Jeanneret, M., A Feast of Words.

                                                    where was the feast, 

                                                    where was the table, 

                                                    erehw?


    An interrupted dialogue taking place during a feast: city noises, words mis-spelled or etymologically mis-routed, prudency, a muddy journey through the dark meanders of the city, lately arrived guests, edible monuments, non-edibles … and on-going negotiations on some allegorical roles. One curiously  accepts the role of the cauldron, the other speculates on the potential persona of the fork and one other still searches for her role… Meanwhile voices  complete each others’ sentences in such unique ways, that obscure exquisite-corpses are formed which eventually act as a set of talismanic incantations. Waiting for the invited guests to arrive in order to commence eating. Found or rather listened to conversations are played and re-played. Shall we start? Some food should be sent back to the cool viscerality of the fridge, before they start to putrefy, yielding to the August heat settling slowly on the table. 

    The -allegorical- mouth becomes the locus of negotiation between to/ not to eat and/or/nor/not to speak. Time to silence for the unpronounceable words; swallowing one’s words … A macaronic language or rather inscriptions and stains on the table. The viscerality of the table, blurring the inside and outside; the viscerality of the fridge, the viscerality of the belly and visceral hands… The viscerality of miniature drawings, resembling the intestines of a space, the blood of a poetic architecture. The paradoxical nature of the act of dissection with regard to the nature of viscerality. 

    Consecutive feasts that take place each night will transform into the ‘project’ itself.

    Application Deadline
    Rolling

    Duration of Program
    August 16th – August 20th & August 23rd – August 27th

    Seminars, Talks, Discussions & Studio Hours: 11.00 – 17.30 (GMT+3)
    Feast: 18.30 – 20.30 (GMT+ 3)

    Program Fee
    Free

    Selection Process
    Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the deadline. Any questions regarding the application can be sent to:
    programs@artslettersandnumbers.com