Open Kitchen Lisa Cheung Pique Nique For her exhibition at firstsite artist Lisa Cheung intends to create the perfect outdoor experience. She introduces three imaginative new garden features to promote sitting, drinking and eating in the secluded garden of the Minories Art Gallery: the Georgian town house inhabited by firstsite. Her mobile kitchen will be taken around town, her elaborate fountain will be available for hire and a series of interlocking floor cushions offered for use by firstsite's visitors. These remarkable objects will be installed inside the building and are "self-serve"; visitors are invited to borrow them for personal use, to participate and enjoy themselves individually and collectively, as well as led by the artist. Sitting: a set of interlocking cushions that can be used singly or arranged to suit the shape and dynamic of any group. These can be used informally for sitting in the garden or servicing planned group activities or meetings. Drinking: a mobile "water feature", created from an assemblage of various drinking vessels and common household objects that can be wheeled into the garden for special occasions. It can be used as a drinking fountain, filled with various thirst quenching drinks for parties and events - available for hire. Eating: a mobile soup kitchen that will be taken to different locations throughout Colchester and used as the basis for a performative piece where a meal (soup) will be cooked on location by the artist and participants, then shared with passers-by! Cheung is interested in extending personal space in a public sphere; the often intimate activities of cooking and drinking are here transferred out of doors, to a large open space. She has a reputation for bringing people together in shared social and creative activity. Through seemingly simple tasks and actions, she cleverly involves and engages people in her sophisticated and highly innovative projects: straightforward paper flower making or cooking noodles become major cross-generational performances, installations and social fests! Exhibition: 18 June - 27 July 2005 Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10 am - 5 pm including bank holidays firstsite @ the minories art gallery 74 High Street GB-Colchester, Essex CO1 1UE Telephone +44 01 206 577 067 Fax +44 01 206 577 161 Email info@firstsite.uk.net www.firstsite.uk.net |
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