“Converging Boundaries, Soul Food Proximity”
Andrew Rewald
1 Dec → 5 Dec 2015
Converging Boundaries, Soul Food Proximity is the second in a trilogy of socially engaged projects that extract and reinterpret meaning from urban food habits and the identities they evoke. For two hours daily over five days, the West Space audience can participate in an interactive performance that implicates them in the process and creation of a meal in a temporary kitchen installation. Rewald invites each person to perform a ritualised act. Pointing to collective social process and sense memory creation that expands on and directs the experience of cooking and eating a meal within the gallery.
This engagement recalls aspects of lifestyle, cultural heritage, aspirations and health of a group of diverse Melbournians as articulated in their daily encounter with food.
Beginning with Converging Boundaries, Everyone and Nobody held at Run Amok gallery, George Town, Malaysia, during a 2014 Asialink Residency in Malaysia, the trilogy will conclude in Albury at MAMA in 2016 with Converging Boundaries, Altered States.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.
Andrew Rewald is a Melbourne-based artist exploring the mutability of food and ritual through performance, installation and social engagement. He exhibited in the 2014 George Town Festival whilst undertaking an Asialink Residency (Malaysia) and with a 2013 Artstart grant from Australia Council completed a community engagement project in Skagaströnd (Iceland). Andrew was artist-in-residence at Australia House for the 2012 Echigo Tsumari Triennial (Japan) and participated in the 2012 Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival (Tasmania).