The Kitchen was a one-day gathering of art, design, music, and food with works by sixteen artists and countless participants who together presented, consumed, discussed, and lived the artworks.
It was at once an exhibition, a meal, a concert, a theatre, and a party. Like Ben Brantley’s review of The Kitchen in New York, we also wanted to be ‘a mess … a sticky, goopy, embarrassing, all-over-the-place and absolutely necessary mess’.
We named this gathering The Kitchen as an ode to the eponymous multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance space founded in New York in 1971; and as an homage to the experimental artist collective Fluxus, whose engagement with mixed-means performance and emphasis on blurring the artist-audience boundary immensely guided our development of this event.