Edible Bodies
Outdoor Food Performances and Soup Planting
Performances by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Amanda Heidel, Amalya Megerman, Jessica Van Deursen
Participatory installation by Michael Fortenberry
Saturday May 14, 5-7pm
Image: Amalya Megerman, 2022
Food is a relational actant. It manifests a temporary otherness- once swallowed its coherence gradually dissipates until it completely absorbs in the body. Once dissolved it becomes our cells. The edible gets assimilated into us. It has a formative power which acts on the body. It’s a process that performs much longer than the act (of eating). For most of us, it is a daily “ happening”. A repeated ordinary act. The edible as a truly immersive, relational, durational performance of an other is the focus of this singular performance program.
On Saturday, May 14th, 5-7pm, Glasshouse in New Paltz will host an outdoor event dedicated to the performative experience of food and eating.
Performances by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Amanda Heidel, Amalya Megerman, Jessica Van Deursen and Michael Fortenbery.
Planting Party!!! Guests are invited to bring a plant for our in process community soup garden (because as some might know, we are all about soup- as a metaphor to art-life fluidity, as nourishment, as community building- and the list goes on!)
This event is part of our 15th season, titled: The Captive Spectator- Performing The Otherhood in Motherhood
Bios:
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is an American interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She is best known for her work in performance art. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and is a mentor in the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was born in Jamaica to a Chinese-Jamaican father and an Afro-Jamaican mother. The African diaspora, European colonialism and Chinese migration make-up significant parts of her ancestral story. Her work often questions moments in history, highlighting the lost traditions and stories of her own complex heritage. website: www.jodielynkeechow.com
Amanda Heidel explores the unclear boundaries between art and life. Amanda's work considers natural processes and collaborative community projects that unfold over long periods of time. Her work often takes the form of public art, performance and sculpture. website: www.amandaheidel.com
Amalya Megerman is a multidisciplinary visual artist, working primarily between performance, installation, painting, and stained glass. She draws on traditional Jewish ritual, organic materials, and themes around body, anxiety, family history, and femininity. Her work probes the tensions between safety and discomfort, paranoia and cautiousness, and what it means to be complicit. In doing so, she investigates and refigures the way intergenerational trauma manifests in her body. website: www.amalyamegerman.com
Jessica van Deursen is an artist, blogger and educator who addresses our way of living through invented rituals for human basic needs. Her works occur as performances, objects, installations, photographs, video and shared research on her blog. She teaches performance art at a.o. Willem de Kooning academy in Rotterdam. website: www.jessicavandeursen.com
Michael Fortenberry is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator based in the Hudson Valley. He is currently an MFA artist in residence at Glasshouse. Michael works with the manipulation of raw material, organic forms and representation of landscape. His works are often participatory and call for audience engagement. website: www.michaelfortenberry.com
About Glasshouse-
Glasshouse is an art-life-lab dedicated to performance art. Since 2007 Glasshouse regularly organizes, produces and hosts performances, thematic exhibitions, festivals and a residency program alongside an ongoing installation spread throughout the house. Some of our notable programming over recent years include The Neo-Domesticities 100h Performance Art Festival (2017), Sites of Absence- Post Presence in Performance exhibition (2016), Archiving The Now (2013), The Cinema of Transgression Festival (2013) and many more. Glasshouse is also the art installation of artists Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry. When not hosting performances, a multi-media exhibition of performance based works, spread thematically throughout the premises - comes to life. Guided tours can be scheduled by appointment. Glasshouse is liquid. Have Some Soup