Event
Block Universe
29 May 2017 – 04 Jun 2017
The Showroom
London, United Kingdom
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Isil Egrikavuk, Growing Pie, Pluto's Kitchen, 2017. Courtesy of Block Universe and Open Space Contemporary. © Martina O'Shea
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Isil Egrikavuk, A Roast from the Heart, Pluto's Kitchen, 2017. Courtesy of Block Universe and Open Space Contemporary © Martina O'Shea
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Isil Egrikavuk, Pluto's Kitchen, 2017. Courtesy of Block Universe and Open Space Contemporary © Martina O'Shea
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Işıl Eğrikavuk, Pluto's Kitchen. © Courtesy of the artist
Exhibition
Block Universe presents Isil Egrikakuk // Pluto’s Kitchen
30 May 2017
Event times
Starts at 8pm
Cost of entry
35 £
The Ned
Address
- 27 Poultry
- London
England - EC2R 8AJ
- United Kingdom
Event map
About
London’s performance art festival Block Universe and Open Space Contemporary present the performative dinner Pluto’s Kitchen by Işıl Eğrikavuk. Drawing parallels between Pluto’s demotion from the solar system and the UK’s strategy to exit the European Union, this event will bring audiences and cultures together through the sharing of a conceptual menu.
In 2006, scientists from NASA announced that Pluto was a dwarf planet, and no longer one of nine planets recognized in our Solar System. On 23 June 2016, following a referendum, the United Kingdom declared it no longer wished to be a member of the European Union. These shifting borders and geographies, which currently determine not only the status of countries as well as celestial bodies but also their imagined living conditions, inspired Eğrikavuk to produce the performative dinner Pluto’s Kitchen in collaboration with chef Vidar Begum. Cultural identity is inextricably linked with the politics of food and the sharing of regional cuisines across borders. In this work, Eğrikavuk will examine the alternative, by envisioning what form the kitchen and cuisine of an isolated planet, and thus an isolated nation, could take.
Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isl-egrikavuk-plutos-kitchen-tickets-34207743281
