“1,095: One Year's Worth of Other People's Plates”
Swap meet at LACMA
Part of Fallen Fruit’s “Let Them Eat LACMA” on Sunday November 7th, 2010, Noon - 8 pm
FIFTY ARTISTS EXPLORE FOOD, ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
View the DONATED PLATES & DONATION PROCESS for the MANDALA here
A Hi-Res version of the Let Them Eat LACMA brochure can be downloaded here note: it will take a few minutes to download.
CALL FOR PLATES:
LA artist Bari Ziperstein invites the public to contribute their dinner plates to “1,095: One Years Worth of Other People's Plates”—a large-scale, temporary, site-specific ceramic plate mandala—and to have their plates participate in this one day public collection.
For every plate you donate, you can pick out a new commemorative “1,095” plate during the November 7th “Let Them Eat LACMA” event. Present your plate donation receipt to pick out your new collection of dinnerware in the amount of your donation. Plate donations are also accepted the day of the event and likewise eligible for exchange. Ziperstein is collecting plates up till November 5 for a one-day event at LACMA on November 7. Plates will only be collected by the artist or dropped off at her Glassell Park studio not at LACMA. Plates can be donated the day of the event at LACMA, but not before.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
“1,095: One Year's Worth of Other People's Plates” is a continuation of Bari Ziperstein’s on-going investigation of the architectural and design history of Los Angeles and the effect of consumerism and collecting on the urban landscape. This project incorporates Ziperstein’s idiosyncratic process of reassembling and transforming functional domestic objects, utilizing her dexterity with materials to create an interactive three-dimensional installation of one years worth of other people’s ceramic plates (3 meals a day x 365 days = 1,095 plates) in the shape of a mandala. Collected via social networking, each plate will have a commemorative sticker on the back marking the plate’s participation. Ziperstein will build and place the ceramic mandala from the collected plates over the course of four hours (Noon – 4 pm) in the Art of America lobby at LACMA. Over the course of four hours, the mandala will fluctuate drastically and in unexpected ways with the acquisition of incoming plates and the distribution of collected plates. Part swap meet part sculpture, this one-day collection of plates will be redistributed back to museum visitors or donated to a local thrift store if leftovers remain.
Photography by Gari Lamar Askew II
Special thanks to: All plate donors, Fallen Fruit, Liz Anderson of Department of Graphic Sciences, Justin Lebanowski, Gari Lamar Askew II, Amanda Yates, Juan Pablo Carrillo, Angela Estes, Jan Manrique, Amy Wise, Jenna Morgan, Roxanna Martinez, Jill Newman, Jed Lind, Erin Loechner from Designformankind.com, Julie Deamer of Outpost for Contemporary Art, Emily Hopkins of Side Street Projects, LACMA, Rebecca Trawick Curator/Director of Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College, Twentieth and Honor Fraser Gallery.
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Part of Fallen Fruit’s “Let Them Eat LACMA”: Official PR:
FIFTY ARTISTS EXPLORE FOOD, ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
Sing for your supper, come bellyache with us and slake your thirst at Let Them Eat LACMA! For the last “course” of EATLACMA, a year-long investigation of food, art, culture and politics, we’ve assembled over fifty artists and collaborations all focused in different ways on food.
High tea and gluttony, belly listening, parasites, Spam, and the world seen from the potato's perspective! David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit invite artists and the public to reconsider the museum and the very first form of civilization: food, and to examine the most primordial thing that connects us to each other: what, how, and why we eat. Share a bite and nibble and munch your way through a wild menu of installations, performances and interventions throughout the entire museum campus.
See chewing carolers, a tomato fight, and a year’s worth of plates assembled into a mandala that disappears into the crowd! Join us for a watermelon eating contest, hear about the mystery of the knife, fork and spoon, watch Salome seduce her lover through the language of food, sample the food served to prisoners in California jails, and finally, EAT THE MUSEUM itself!
Artists and collectives participating in Let Them Eat LACMA include Karen Atkinson, Animals of Distinction, Gina Badger, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Lauren Bon and The Metabolic Studio, John Burtle, Michelle Carr, Robert Crouch, Cloud Eye Control, Didier Hess, Harry Dodge, Jeanne Dunning, Fallen Fruit, Finishing School, Liz Glynn, Jonathan Gold, Veronica Gonzalez, Sean Griffin, Dana Gingras, Liz Hansen, Micol Hebron, Anna Homler, The Infamous Boom Boom!, Islands of LA Presents Roots of Compromise, Emily Katrencik, KILLSONIC, Ari Kletzky, John Knuth, Kadet Kuhne, Machine Project, Ann Magnuson, Jorge Martin, Jesse Merlin, Crys Moore, My Barbarian, National Bitter Melon Council, Katie Newcom, Yann Novak, Gina Osterloh, Adam Overton, Owen Driggs, Sun-Yun Park, Phranc, Eva Posey, Miss Barbie-Q., Marco Rios, Jennifer Rubell, Sook Shim, Cindy Short, Susan Simpson, Slanguage, Juliana Snapper, Åsa Sonjasddotter, Squeaky Blonde, Kim Stringfellow, Sublamp, Lisa Teasley, Stephen van Dyck, We Are The World, Michiko Yao, and Bari Ziperstein.