Super supper deals with aspirations to success and consumption via the medium of food and drink using the table as the arena. Vic Bigoire will act as host to a dinner of epic proportions where he and his guests will create their own micro-society with its own rules and structures allowing the audience to participate or stand back in silence as the life of an artwork unfold before their eyes. Bourgeois dinner chat mixed with game show style bravado performance and anti theatre will collide in what could be VicÕs last supper.
Jo Cripps: The "Wild" Food Party
THE "Wild" Food Party celebrating the Futurist Cook Book, Re: their ferocious desire to possess all language and meaning - A Live Story Telling, Song Singing event where each mouthful is to be chewed carefully for one minute, and each mouthful is divided from the next by vehement blasts on the trumpet blown by the eater himherself. From within the "Wild" zone of poetry and control Jo+Venus Cripps will create, perform and rule this radical, ambitious and probably brittle affair.
Sonic Catering Band: La Crande Bouffe
The Sonic Catering Band will be applying their metaculinary magic to the corporeal gluttony and fornication of Marco Ferrari's 70's cult classic, 'La Grande Bouffe'
'La Grande Bouffe' concerns the plight of four middle-aged bourgeoisie men who hole themselves up in a mansion with a plentiful supply of food and women to indulge in one final overdose of culinary and carnal extravagance. The general lack of music in the film leaves a lot of scope for The Sonic Catering Band to heighten the orgiastic goings-on with the intense bubbling, gurgling, sizzling, blending and chopping that will result from cooking the same dishes as the film.
The Sonic Catering Band won't be providing a soundtrack in the traditional sense of the word, more an integral stage/screen dynamic that is fused by the simultaneous action of on/offscreen cooking. Disclaimer: Any meat dishes in the film will be appropriated as faithfully as possible in a vegetarian context.
Steven Eastwood: Cinema into Real, Test One
'A film of the real which isn't real because its reenacted and isn't film because it isn't projected.'
....In a Cafe off Brick Lane, hidden microphones and cameras are placed, trained on one specific table.The subjects of that one hour of scrutiny will be invited back to work with the filmmaker in recreating from tape, word by word and movement by movement, what they did in that hour at that table. This 'reperformance' will then become a mock film of itself.
The table and performance will be cinematically lit and sound scored so that actions and exchanges gradually become more deeply implicated within a dramatic, narrative mode. A site-specific fusion of the fictional and the actual in three stages, (the clandestine, the covert , and the cinematically theatrical) fusing audience with performance, involving video, sound and film lighting. All taking place in a Coffee House.
This is a baking/storytelling performance. In the course of the performance I will make batches of two types of scones.
My Grandmother on my father's side and my Mum are both Scottish, and both bake scones. They learned to bake scones by watching their mothers. I learned to bake scones by watching them. The differences in the scones demonstrate two different traditions, two different lifestyles and the different personalities of my mother and Grandmother. What they have in common is that both recipies are slightly at odds with life and customs of today (and my generation).
My Grandmother's scones come from a world in which the phrase 'more tea, vicar', was no joking matter. My Grandmother used to stake her pride on her tea table. Her scone making technique produces neat, square scones of a solid consistency to be eaten off china plates with minimal crumbs.
My mother's scones are made with sour milk. They come from a world of 'waste-not-want-not' where even sour milk was not to be thrown away. They are usually baked in haste, large and irregular in shape with a light, crumbly texture. As a result of being brought up on sour milk scones my brother and I have a habit of saving milk after it goes sour, harbouring a foreign culture in the fridge as far as most of our (English) contemporaries are concerned.
The performance should take about 30 minutes. I will wear my 'MissInTheMix' rabbit costume with an apron and a tartan headscarf. With the costume, the effect will probably have something of the 'mad hatter's tea party', which is not inapproriate, bringing in as it does themes of time and storytelling.
