On Friday July 17, artists will literally play with their food, adopt
new personae through role play and performance and implicate audiences
in group play. The evening begins with the ‘Lucullan Feast,’ a
gathering of artists around a dining table to present food as
interactive sculpture and sensory experience. The cultural history of
food has made compelling connections between visual stimulation and
appetite linked with the idea that ‘we eat with our eyes before we eat
with our mouth.’ The project asks artists to consider the inherently
visual qualities of food, and in the process, to implement alternate
modes of function and presentation by re-inventing the vessels,
containers or utensils associated with their chosen dish. The
‘Lucullan Feast’ is a lavish buffet of ideas, a profusion of playful
outcomes, a contempt for limitations and an invitation to taste.