Category: Performance

The Bread City

The Bread City’ (2009) by Johanna Mårtensson

“After eight months of preparation, Johanna completed her model in Stockholm in 2009 and then proceeded to photograph the decaying process every day for the next six months. She then presented her results in a series of six 500mm x 400mm photographs.

At first the bread looks nice and fresh, like any new construction, but it gradually turns limp and fuzzy until the whole city collapses in a black and grey mess that looks eerily post-apocalyptic.” – inhabitat.com

source – Instagram

Walls

Haraszti Zsolt – Walls
Performance, 2015, at Mediawave Festival, Wall exhibition

A few days before the action, a door frame with a painted stylized wall was erected on which these texts were added in Hungarian and English:

“A wall means self-closure and/or exclusion. This country would be far more livable if the walls were destroyed. This doorway will be build up with bread and dripping. On May 2015 at 19:30, if you are fed up with walls, come and help break them down: Eat a slice with us!“

After the artist laid down slices of bread with pork fat, the public helped “eat down” the wall.

More info about the wall exhibition here.

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Bread head sculptures

Bread head sculptures – András Böröcz
2003 – New York

One of András Böröcz and his wife Robbin Ami Silverberg’s actions was carried out at the Popieluszko Square next to their apartment, the purpose of which was to have the pigeons floating in the square devouring or at least breaking down the sculptures made of bread. The pigeons walked around the bread heads, but did not harm them, paying tribute to Böröcz’s art. The square was named after a Polish priest murdered in 1987. Later the Polish community in Brooklyn erected a statue for his memory. The head of the statue was broken on the day before the initiation. Böröcz reacted with the Breadhead statue in action, documented by Robbin Ami Silverberg and become the Bread Head Story.

8 pieces of bread head sculptures
photo: Hübner Teodóra