TASTE ROOM JANA LEO 2005 The following is a proposal for the Taste-Room. An eating situation that involves eating and putting people together in unusual settings.
A constructed atmosphere for an eating ceremony between two strangers. “Edible pieces” will be served. A ritual of tasting specific dishes, rather then main courses designed for the palate. Special attentions: really tasty, slightly twisted. The selectionof this delicatessen is base on conceptual (eating is different from food, involving ritual, social interaction, sensory stimulation-visual, taste selective) and/or nutritional benefit (every food is reduced to the chemical formula of water and oil). Like water and oil, female and male mix only for a moment.
TASTE ROOM J a n a Le o 7 0 fo r s y t h s t . 1 0 0 0 0 N e w Yo r k T 2 1 2 9 6 5 5 1 7 1 E l e o d e b l s @ a l umn i . p r i n c e t o n . e d u Jana Leo October 26 2005 New York Dear person, The following is a proposal for the Taste-Room. An eating situation that involves eating and putting people together in unusual settings.
Where? The “eating” takes place in a room, the dimensions of which are variable. This proposal can be done in any place that is a scenery for “public intimacy” like a museum project room, a gallery, a living room, a restaurant or a hotel. However in an effort to untangle the money/pleasure connection, and eliminate a predefined space-structure for eating, the public dining experience is removed from its usual setting: the restaurant. Of course, the Taste-Room might even occur in a restaurant, but it is a free restaurant still a restaurant.?
What is eating? The “act of eating” involves four levels: ritual, social, nutritional and sensory. A typical restaurant focuses on taste (sensory) and a setting for interaction (social). Less attention is paid to the chemical and physical consequences (nutritional) of the food and even less to the atmosphere, time, sequence, position (ritual). Taste-Room, while marking the difference among these elements, gives priority to the ritual and sensory elements over the atmosphere and taste.
My role: I prepare the food, while twisting and questioning the meaning and appearance of eating. The dishes are photographed during the process of building the food (not documentation: sometimes the food is made for the picture,at other times the picture or the food). After considering the position of the bodies when eating, the configuration of the room, the distance between diners, the sequence and timing, and evaluating its meaning, I propose a different setting.
TASTE ROOM JANA LEO 2005 The following is a proposal for the Taste-Room. An eating situation that involves eating and putting people together in unusual settings.
A constructed atmosphere for an eating ceremony between two strangers. “Edible pieces” will be served. A ritual of tasting specific dishes, rather then main courses designed for the palate. Special attentions: really tasty, slightly twisted. The selectionof this delicatessen is base on conceptual (eating is different from food, involving ritual, social interaction, sensory stimulation-visual, taste selective) and/or nutritional benefit (every food is reduced to the chemical formula of water and oil). Like water and oil, female and male mix only for a moment.
TASTE ROOM J a n a Le o 7 0 fo r s y t h s t . 1 0 0 0 0 N e w Yo r k T 2 1 2 9 6 5 5 1 7 1 E l e o d e b l s @ a l umn i . p r i n c e t o n . e d u Jana Leo October 26 2005 New York Dear person, The following is a proposal for the Taste-Room. An eating situation that involves eating and putting people together in unusual settings.
Where? The “eating” takes place in a room, the dimensions of which are variable. This proposal can be done in any place that is a scenery for “public intimacy” like a museum project room, a gallery, a living room, a restaurant or a hotel. However in an effort to untangle the money/pleasure connection, and eliminate a predefined space-structure for eating, the public dining experience is removed from its usual setting: the restaurant. Of course, the Taste-Room might even occur in a restaurant, but it is a free restaurant still a restaurant.?
What is eating? The “act of eating” involves four levels: ritual, social, nutritional and sensory. A typical restaurant focuses on taste (sensory) and a setting for interaction (social). Less attention is paid to the chemical and physical consequences (nutritional) of the food and even less to the atmosphere, time, sequence, position (ritual). Taste-Room, while marking the difference among these elements, gives priority to the ritual and sensory elements over the atmosphere and taste.
My role: I prepare the food, while twisting and questioning the meaning and appearance of eating. The dishes are photographed during the process of building the food (not documentation: sometimes the food is made for the picture,at other times the picture or the food). After considering the position of the bodies when eating, the configuration of the room, the distance between diners, the sequence and timing, and evaluating its meaning, I propose a different setting.