SATURDAY, 5 MARCH 2022, 10 PM
farO PRESENTS FOOD OBSERVATION
With works by Donald Burgy, Åsa Ersmark, Hollis Frampton, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Martin Laborde, Daragh Reeves, Aki Sasamoto
Rua de S. Joaquim nr. 2, Campo de Ourique, LISBOA
(entrance on the left side of Igreja de Santa Isabel)
Can It be eaten? Is it edible? Should it be eaten? Is it safe to eat?…
These questions get all the more complicated if you’re suspicious of the hand that feeds you. Let us be clear: we strongly support the poisoning of any dictator. But to give the tyrant an indigestion you’ll first hit the food taster. The master strategy of the taster is to savour deep in existential thought. While the warm food makes its way down to the guts of the taster it gets cold on the dictator’s plate.
In the 19th century the Western world tried to slow down the cooling of food by adopting the service à la russe, by which the courses in a meal are served faster in sequence, like a movie. With this new type of rapid service, the food taster could no longer resort to the old ways to buy time for the cold served revenge…
On March 5th, 2022 at 22 pm, farO will work as a set for the sequential observation of food-like things, reflecting on what seems edible beyond the sensitive radar of sight and sound.
Saturday's
7 COURSE MENU
APÉRITIF
Coke Sculptures
by Daragh Reeves
(glass vessels and coca-cola, variable dimensions, 2011. courtesy of the artist)
SIDE ORDER
Carrots and Peas
by Hollis Frampton
(16mm, colour, sound, 5’5’’, 1969. copy from Film-makers Coop.)
AMUSE BOUCHE
Casting
by Åsa Ersmark
(video, colour, silent, 2’, 2010. copy from the Filmform archive collection)
MAIN
Food Observation Idea
by Donald Burgy
(video, colour, sound, 4’24’’, 1976. courtesy of the artist)
DESERT
Do Nut Diagram
by Aki Sasamoto
(video, colour, sound, 20’01’’, 2018. courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery)
SALAD AND FRUIT
(all you can eat)
Chopping fruits and vegetables
by João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
(16 mm, colour, silent, 1’31’’, 2016. courtesy of the artists)
DIGESTIF
Super Weekend
by Martin Laborde
(three reloaded/combinatory compositions, mixed media, 100 x 70 cm, 2021/22. courtesy of the artist)
The lenders. Anna-Karin Larsson and Stefania Bortolami.
This session had the technical support of Carlos Gaspar, Borja Caro and João Simões; and photo coverage by Pedro Alfacinha. The screens were produced by toca do mocho and the projector stands by Gonçalo Barreiros.
This week our exquisite staircase made of Aalto, Herzog/de Meuron and Breuer is replaced by a food staircase by Martin Laborde.
At the entrance, as usual, will be THE SLANT STEP.
Produced with the support of Pato em Pequim and Fundo de Fomento Cultural Garantir Cultura Compete 2020 República Portuguesa–Ministério da Cultura.
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