Keeping up to date with current news in the area, it came to my attention that Rebecca Gamble was putting on a piece as part of Primary Nights: 1-2-1 which was a series of one to one performances at hatch in Nottingham. Below is a description of the piece:
‘You are invited to encounter a 1-2-1 gastronomic performance that plays with notions of host and guest. Choose your instrument at the door. You are invited to either feed or eat. The encounter ends on the sounding of the bell’ (Hatch Nottingham, 2013)
This reminded me of an earlier idea we had which involved the audience feeding us. This piece on the other hand is one on one and left the audience member to their own devices when it came to decision making. Although we moved away from this idea, it still plays with the element of intimacy and ‘host and guest’. Two people’s relationship with food and the idea of what is appropriate when it comes to someone feeding another person.
I contacted Rebecca Gamble via her website hoping to find out more information on her piece and why she chose to explore the host and guest relationship, as we are exploring the feeder/gainer relationship.
(Click to enlarge the image and read the email to Rebecca Gamble. Taken by: Kirsty Jakins 4.12.13)
It also got me thinking about whether these two relationships are similar in anyway and if so how? In our piece we are exploring control, whereas Gamble seems to be looking at intimacy and pushing the audience. We too are pushing the audience but in a completely different way. They are as much involved by having to view what the feeder will put the gainer through. In Gamble’s piece the audience could feed her as a host, which is breaking what is the norm. We are also breaking a norm with feeding as you normally feed yourself and can control what enters your body. Here complete control is given to the feeder. These relationships will be discovered tomorrow when we discover out roles in the straw drawing process.
Works Cited
Hatch Nottingham (2013) Primary Nights 1-2-1. [online] Available at: http://www.hatchnottingham.org.uk/?p=3055 [Accessed: 4.12.13].