A place where sculpture, food and ideas are interchangeable and digestible, Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival presents Elizabeth Willing’s Kitchen Studio at Metro Arts from 4 September 2024.
During the day, Kitchen Studio opens its doors to those curious to explore the dormant sculptural dining room. When the sun sets, the installation’s artist steps into the kitchen to host a provocative sensory journey for an intimate group of guests. The rules of hospitality will be broken and nourishment redefined.
Partaking in Kitchen Studio is an invitation to play within the realm of gastronomy as you make your way through a series of conceptually driven courses. Artist Elizabeth Willing‘s large-scale installation encourages guests to form new perspectives on the modern diet by exploring, engaging, and experiencing edible materials in unconventional ways.
“Kitchen Studio is a project that I have wanted to create for over a decade, and I am delighted to be able to produce it on home ground,” said Elizabeth Wiling. “This is my most ambitious creative project to date, and I feel confident it will allow me to open up exciting new facets in my work, and in the space of food design and experimental eating.”
Elizabeth Willing has been making art between the kitchen and studio for 15 years. She makes captivating mixed-media installations and exhibitions which excite and seduce the senses as well as performance meals in which the table is stage for food-centric explorations.
Kitchen Studio can be experienced as an exhibition or a hosted activation. A small group of guests will be invited into the kitchen to participate in a provocative sensory journey complete with food and drinks. It’s not a full dinner experience.
Kitchen Studio will prompt and humour audiences into considering not only how our food got here, but what happens once it is taken inside.
Artist: Elizabeth Willing | Architecture and Design: Dirk Yates (Speculative Architecture) | Sound Designer: Anna Whitaker | Video Designer: Chris Howlett | Producer: Maisie Crosdale
Kitchen Studio
Metro Arts, 97 Boundary Street, West End (Brisbane)
Season: 4 September – 26 October 2024 (booking fast – limited dates available)
Bookings: www.metroarts.com.au
For more information, visit: www.brisbanefestival.com.au for details.
Image: Kitchen Studio (supplied)