Blanc-Mange Cinema

This event is a part of FoAM’s yearly theme ‘nourish’. The process of preparation, presentation and consumption of food, its related cultural rituals, and their informal breaking are used to achieve the synaesthesia of sensual perception in responsive environments.

‘Blanc-mange’ [white eat], the well-known French dessert, has its roots in medieval times. Figuratively it means “nonsense” or “trivial matters”. Although accused of being bland and unimaginative, white foods lend themselves to be painted like a blank canvas. Structured as a slow-food event, ‘Blanc-Mange Cinema’ comprises a gastronomic, as well as cinematic experience. Food films are screened on an edible projection surface of white foods. Course after course, the films unfold on a changing table-top-landscape, dependent on the viewer/diner’s appetite. Blanc-Mange Cinema offers a tasty critique on the idea of the sterile ‘white cube’ gallery spaces where the ‘do not touch’ art dogma still reigns. In our case, art is something to be consumed and internalised with gusto.

Digestible Designers: Zanzi/FoAM/ Rasa Alksnyte, Pieter De Wel, Maja Kuzmanovic, Nat Muller
Spatial Design: FoAM / Lina Kusaite in collaboration with L’Anverre
Media Designers: FoAM/ Nik Gaffney, Maja Kuzmanovic
Narrative Design & Text Research: Maja Kuzmanovic, Nat Muller

http://libarynth.org/bizar_story
http://libarynth.org/sensual_story