PrintUmami: Food and Art Festival
Umami is an upcoming food and art festival taking place from April 8-18 at Roulette in New York City. What exactly does food and art entail? Events and performances include turning non-food objects into sausages, music performed with kitchen utensils, and teaching children how to make art with their food. Think of it as being allowed to play with your food!
The festival chair, Yael Raviv, was my former "Food and Performance" professor during my senior year of college and passionate about the field; I'm sure the festival will be great. If you'd like to help out during the festival and receive free tickets in the process, contact Yael.
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Mmm. Interesting. Hovering between the frying pan of food and the fire of art: The Umami Festival.
The website states the focus is to be on the ephemeral which says food to me more strongly than do most forms of art but then it adds the addendum of noncommercial which says neither art nor food to me (at least in the worlds I've known of both - both have very strong commercial holdings and behaviors).
Playing with your food - yes, okay.
I'd like to see a soup made of words. A stone soup - every participant (or cook, rather) involved would add the word of their choosing to the pot centered in the room (written in chalk on a stone, of course!). After stirring in their word, they would have to act it out for the next five or ten minutes in the space surrounding the pot.
Ha, ha, ha!
Karen Resta at 4:32PM on 03/24/08
Oops, sorry. A bit too much Ogden Nash in that post and not enough James Beard.
Change it to a real soup in the center of the room, made of chicken broth. The words could be added in the form of engravings on grains of rice.
Drape the room to look like the inside of a stockpot and heat the floor as if it were on the burner of a stove.
It would be a fine kettle of fish but at least everyone could have some soup.
Karen Resta at 7:05AM on 03/25/08