Event
Soup & Tart: Los Angeles
14 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Sat, 14 Mar
- 16:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
A contribution of $20 per person and RSVP are required, with all proceeds going directly to the evening’s artists and chefs.
werkartz
Address
- 1200 Wall Street
- Second Floor
- Los Angeles
California - 90015
- United States
A marathon of two-minute performances by 50 artists and musicians while six acclaimed chefs serve soup and tart.
About
Taking inspiration from Soup & Tart, an event devised by Fluxus-affiliated artist Jean Dupuy in 1974, held at New York’s revered downtown art space The Kitchen, Active Cultures’ Soup & Tart: Los Angeles brings together artists, musicians, and dancers from across the city’s cultural landscape, inviting them to use the micro window of time in any way they like: an improvisation, song, action, movement, or text. As the performances roll on, a lineup of exciting chefs serve up their takes on delicious soup and tarts for all—just as bowls of vegetable soup and French apple tarts were served when artists such as Phillip Glass, Yvonne Rainer, Arthur Russell, Laurie Anderson, and Joan Jonas entertained the crowd during the original event.
Organized by interdisciplinary performance curator Sarah Cooper, the lineup includes artists and musicians such as Julianna Barwick, Jennifer West, Sun Araw, MPA, David Horvitz, Clarissa Tossin, Victoria Fu & Matt Rich, Adee Roberson, Dave Muller, Austyn Rich, Eddie Ruscha, Jr., Jasmine Nyende, Oliver Payne, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, Dean Spunt, Ana Roxanne, Akua, Allison Wolfe, Celia Hollander, YACHT, Corey Fogel, Geneva Jacuzzi, Molly Lewis, Alex Somers, and Gabie Strong, and many others.
With dishes by
Kwang Uh and Mina Park of Baroo
Minh Phan of Porridge + Puffs
Lisa Giffen of Audrey at the Hammer Museum
Ray Anthony Barrett of Cinqué
Leif Hedendal, San Francisco-based cultural producer and chef
Roxana Jullapat of Friends and Family
Bread provided by Bub and Grandma’sJust as Dupuy’s Soup & Tart took place in a pivotal moment for the artists of its generation, this experiment aims to ask what the models of earlier avant-gardes can reveal in the here and now. Poised to be a night of the unexpected, Soup & Tart: Los Angeles seeks to capture that magical sense of convening that is only possible when aided by delicious food.
Special thanks to event sponsors Dublab, Bub and Grandma’s, Fort Point Beer Co., and our lead sponsor and venue host, wərkärtz.
