15.2.13

MATTA CLARK : FOOD restaurants

Brine Shrimp


At one dinner performance, Matta-Clark served live brine shrimp swimming in broth in the middle of a halved, cooked egg white. “Some nonartist customers were furious and claimed there should be a law against us”. “We told them guest chef days were no holds barred days and they could leave if they wished. So they did.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/dining/21soho.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

A Gold Leafed Photo-Fried Christmas Tree
by Gordon Matta-Clark
diffusion transfer print (Polaroid print) and gold leaf combined by heating in a frying pan
photograph is housed in the box in which it was originally mailed.
Fried Photo was created at a 1969 exhibition at the John Gibson Gallery, and subsequently mailed to Richard Landry in 1971.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/durruti/4167303641/

9.3.12

Spicy food



Dali dinner


1941 Newsreel. Surrealist artist Salvador Dali designs and hosts a party held in the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California. The event was titled Night in a Surrealist Forest and it was a fund raiser to help European artists displaced by the war.