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15/07/2019
Food: Bigger than the Plate
The exhibition explores how to reinvent the cultivation, distribution and experience food. Artists, designers, chefs, farmers and scientists have experimented and created alternative foods, presenting the possibility of a food future for the audience. The exhibition is a sensory journey from composting to the table. The laboratory is naked in front of the audience, the tables and chairs made of waste, the cheese made of celebrity body bacteria, and the mushrooms grown in coffee grounds. The audience can order food at the end and have a 'chef' to cook a delicate mini synthetic food for you.
15/07/2019
John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah is a well-respected artist and filmmaker whose work is characterized by memory, post-colonialism, time and aesthetics, and is often explored globally. Immigration experience overseas. Akomfrah is one of the founding members of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which was founded in London in 1982 with artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, and he still works with it. Their first film, Handsworth Songs (1986), combines archived material, still images and news reports to explore the events surrounding the 1985 Birmingham and London riots. The film has won several international awards and established a multi-layered visual style, which has become a recognized theme of Akomfrah's practice. Other works include a three-screen installation of "Unfinished Dialogue" (2012), a dynamic portrait of the life and work of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), an imaginary drama, vivid It reveals the personal life of two 16th-century portraits by Albrecht Dürer and Mnemosyne (2010), revealing the hardships experienced by British immigrants.
