cooking show
cooking show is a performance work about the bizzare fragmentation of the forms of cooking shows and cooking books, realized in a performance.
To boil down the essense of cooking procedures, cooking shows and cook books change the order of things, zoom in and out of details, and insert refreshing imformation here and there. Translating proximity and reordering of procedures back into the live, my cooking show results in furthur isolation and distortion of the cooking procedures.
The Long Utensils were made to be drawn out of the shaftway towards the basement, to cook up ingredients right in front of the audience members, and to be hung from the ceiling at the end. The imposiibility of the long knife cutting a potato, or of the long fork reaching to cook with the flying pan up by the ceiling, is commical and recalls for sensation of such a mandane yet intricate act as handling a knife at a kitchen.
The Long Utensil
cooking show was performed in the context of cram, an evening-length show by Lower Lights Collective at Chocolate Factory Theater, in November 2005. In cram, each member of Lower Lights Collective brought her/his own independent work, and overlaped it in the same space and time. The collage of individually developed pieces resulted in a rich composition.
Interview by Pilar Conde
