Για μια περιγραφή του προγράμματος επιλέξτε εδώ
For a description of the project click here

Παρασκευή 1 Απριλίου 2011

Fighting


"if humans didn t eat meat they couldn t survive i guess during the pre historical times maybe beacause of dryness or permanent snow they couldn t eat plants anymore ... but nowadays we can get almost everything from plants... evolution has nothing to do with intelligence in this case ... human became meat eaters in order to survive... horses did the opposite for example..."
"mmmmh...."
"Where do you see the connection between meat and evolution?? we are eating all these meat just in the last decades and, actually, we are involving and not evolving......"
"that is because primitive man cooked their meat to make it tender,relieving the stress off our jaw muscles and making room for our craniums to expand,and with it our brain capacity,raw meat made our brains grow enough to make us harness fire,and when we did harness fire we started cooking our meats.now if lions and cheetahs cooked their meats they would evolve higher brain capacity aswell."
our jungles are grocery stores. Eating meat is making a conscious decision to consume violence
"Those nasty vegetarians eating those poor defenseless plants and growing them in such confined and filthy conditions. Unlike meat eaters, vegetarians eat the poor little plants and veggies while they are still alive! So disgusting!"
"humans are meant to eat both. But people "CHOOSE" what they want to eat."
"Vegetarian. I have no problem with drinking milk or eating eggs, as these don't hurt the animal. I am fully against hurting anything"
"If you are a vegetarian because of animal suffering, you must know the egg and dairy factory farm machine is responsible for some of the worst animal cruelty in history"
"meat and beer!!! mmmmmm"

Koutroulou | Feast







Performance Research: On Cooking | Book


"This issue looks at food in performance and food as performance art; the performative in cookery and its staging in the kitchen and at the table. The articles give testament to the theatricality of food and speculate on food as a model for theatre; multi-sensory, processual and communal. Among the articles are Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett's "Alimentary Canal"; Joanne Finkelstein's "Chic Food"; Darra Goldstein on mealtime extravaganzas in 19th century Russia; Jeremy MacClancy's "Futurist Food" and much more."

Link to Amazon

Tsukiji market | Food tourism


We stayed in Tokyo for 4 nights in between a Trip to Kyoto and arrived home on the 15th September 09. After planning for the trip we were truly and utterly confused at what time to arrive at the market. We chose to get up at 4:30 and got to the fish market around 5:15 taking the subway. We followed the many street carts zipping around to the tuna auctions that stop and wait for no-one. We saw the frozen tuna auctions that take place between 5:15 and 6:00 am where the public are allowed to view and take photos (no flash). One tip is the fresh tuna auctions take place in the hall adjacent to the exit of the frozen tuna hall and a sneaky peek can be had. After the auction we strolled around the outer market and came across a man delicately cutting up a fresh tuna that he must have just bought. We went for sushi in one of the small bar restaurants towards the entrance of the market where people had begun to queue for breakfast. We paid 3,500 yen each for a set menu that consisted of chinese tea, miso soup, 3 or 4 pieces of sushi and 1 piece of the famous o toro tuna which was melt in the mouth amazing.

The vegetable orchestra


Last Meal


JOHN RICHARD MAREK
August 19, 2009


Last Meal: Marek had a final meal request of a BLT sandwich, berries with whipped cream, french fries, onion ringsand a Dr Pepper.

MATTHEW ERIC WRINKLES
December 11, 2009

Le big Mac | Pulp Fiction


An old gas guzzling, dirty, white 1974 Chevy Nova BARRELS down
        a homeless-ridden street in Hollywood.  In the front seat are
        two young fellas -- one white, one black -- both wearing cheap
        black suits with thin black ties under long green dusters.
        Their names are VINCENT VEGA (white) and JULES WINNFIELD
        (black).  Jules is behind the wheel.


VINCENT
                       But you
                       know what the funniest thing about
                       Europe is?

                                  JULES
                       What?

                                  VINCENT
                       It's the little differences.  A
                       lotta the same shit we got here,
                       they got there, but there they're a
                       little different.

                                  JULES
                       Examples?

Enemy Kitchen | Performance

Enemy Kitchen is an ongoing project begun by Michael Rakowitz in 2004. Collaborating with his Iraqi-Jewish mother, he compiles Baghdadi recipes and teaches them to different public audiences.

The Meal


Food as an experience. The feast as a process and a spectacle.
Two men at a table and a pot boiling.
Their speech fragmental and orchestrated into duets.
From the simple conversation and agreement / disagreement to the song

Το Γεύμα/The Meal

In recent years, a “dialogue” has started between archaeology and theatre on concepts which both disciplines are interested in, like the body, the space, the memory, and the narration. The result of the above “dialogue” was the creation of a 'hybrid' discipline which uses theatrical methods to examine archaeological material and archaeological methods to approach the art of theatre. It is worth taking into consideration the work by M. Pearson and M. Shanks through the Brit Goth (see Pearson M. and Shanks M., Theatre / Archaeology, Routledge, London 2001). Two paradigms from Greece include the performance “Kalaureia”, created by members of our team, that took place in the temple of Poseidon, Poros within the borders of the excavation which was conducted by the Swedish Institute and a similar project that we began on September 2010 in the excavation of the University of Crete on the island of Gavdos.

     All the above belong to a strange series of spectacles organized at archaeological sites in Greece, from the Delphic Festivals of 1927 to the lighting ceremonies of the Olympic flame and the feasts of the dictatorship at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. How do we experience history today? What is our relationship with the archaeological sites and how do they fit into the landscape, urban and non-urban? What are the limits of the language chosen by archaeologists to communicate information to the public?
On this basis we are working on a performance to be presented in September 2011 at the excavation held by the University of Southampton and the Archaeological Service at the tell site of Koutroulou, at Neo Monastiri, Fthiotida. Our main axis of work are food as an experience and how this is revealed by the archaeological finds and the links between music and spoken word, using the distinctive musical tradition of Neo Monastiri.
The aim of this blog is to open our work to anyone interested and to communicate our material in the hope it will become an opportunity for discussion that will eventually contribute to the final performance. We invite you to take archaeological texts and images which we are usually prevented from altering and change them creatively, producing new images, new texts, new ideas.