Robert Doisneau – Picasso and the loaves
photo – 1952
location: pottery village in the hills above Nice
Punishment
Tatsumi Orimoto – Punishment
performance – 2009 February 12 ,location: ARCOmadrid – international contemporary art fair represented by: DNA, Berlin
This is the second post (see the first one) with a new performance of Tatsumi. His performance might well make allusion to the crucifixion of 26 Christian missionaries in Japan in the 16th century, as punishment for their perceived destabilising influence. Orimoto thus expresses how the carrier of bread, the bearer of a different other message, is seen as a threat and is persecuted and martyred. Through the bread scattered on the floor in Punishment, we are witnesses to this waste of communication.” (excerpt from the press release).
Click here to watch the video documentation.
This performance was performed also at DND Berlin. Images here.
Sliced Bread//Notebook
Burak Kaynak – Sliced Bread//Notebook
product designA funy product made by a turkish creative director. There are 12 slices like the months so a 1 year sketches can be packed and archived as a bread.
Self-portrait
Váncsa Domokos – Self-portrait with two sekler potato bread
mixed technique – 140 x 80 x 50 cm2009 – Timisoara, Romania
We feed the wold
Erwin Wagenhofer- We Feed The World
documentary movie – 2005, Austria
movie locations: France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and Austria.
A very good concise movie about the dark side of global food industry. It shows very well that the consumer have the power to change all this by being well informed and of course – act
“Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria’s second-largest city, Graz.”
It’s an ugly contrast between the bread as symbol of Jesus’s body and this bread as garbage.
You can watch this part of the movie on YouTube here.
Supermarket breads
Vancsa Domokos
Several time when I left my home Saint George for a longer period, one of the missed “object” was the bread – a traditional one, made from wheat and potato in Bodok, a village near the town. I am thousands kilometers away from home, my parents can’t send me “the bread” so every day I buy other ones here in Ireland, mostly form supermarkets like Tesco. The racks are full and you should have to choose from, but there is nothing similar to my favorite one, and I still didn’t find a substitute. I stay always more at bread section and try to get down one. I saw other eastern European figures who also search and hope that they will find the “home-bread” in this foreign supermarket.
Wanek’s performance
Wanek Ferenc – No title
performance – 1996 program: Superstition Actions Workshop (Babona Akciok – hungarian)location: Kezdivasarhely/Seklerland/Transylvania/Romania
On a reimbursed table he fills the bread with creased sex magazines. At the end of the action he spit a pigeon egg (which was hidden in his mouth till then) to a plate.
fotó: Vargyasi Levente
Crater in a bread
Molnar Krisztina – Crater in a home-made bread
hardware: Moulinex Home Bread
baker: Csiki Zsolt
The big crater/hole in the center of this home-made bread was created accidentally. It is like the “Kinder Surprise” toy but there is nothing inside, and Ajna still like it. Maybe, this paranormal phenomena was done because the name of the artist “Molnar” in translation means miller.
(Editorial note) I imagine myself 20 times smaller inside of a crater like this when the bread is baking – that hot smmmmmell concentrated in one place, and I sprinkle a bit of butter on the interior wall. Actually if we bake a large scale bread, this idea can turn into a luxurious sauna for rich people and the byproduct (bread) can be eat by poor people – after the sauna is over, and the bread is cold.
Bread and fish in Second Life
Kakukkfu Yosuke – Art’s 1.000.056 ‘th birthday
This cyber performance or cyberformance was made in one of the metaverse known as Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game( MMORPG).
The action is a reinterpretation of a biblical story in which Jesus made a miracle duplicating bread and fish to a plenty of starving people. In cyberspace duplicating is not a miracle, and the bread is not an important symbol anymore. read more on his blog here.
A special “How is Made”
Thomas Thwaites – The toaster project
This guy is trying to build a toaster, from scratch beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99. Follow his hard work here.
with a magnet under the paper he separates the iron from the rest
Microwaves for melting iron? yes
after 30 minutes at full power, the iron is melted