erde (kuchentafel)
2023
Performance
Villa Renata, Basel
material: cutlery, plates, cake, text fragments about wheat and grain, medium format photos, collages
duration: approx. 30min
We read fragments of text while eating cake. These include quotes from investment bankers, headlines from the last few months, farming rules, stock market prices, poems and Bible passages. The table is surrounded by photos of cultural landscapes and collages depicting historic farming activities. Together with the public, we share baked goods to make abstract considerations tangible and conversational, moving from the micro to the macro level and back again: What do we have in front of us every day and rarely acknowledge it? What do we see without “seeing”? The table will remain as we left it for the next two months until the end of the exhibition. The cake is eaten.
