A Domestic Revolution?

I had the amazing good fortune last week to go to Amsterdam to meet an extraordinary group of artists from around the world for work.

While there, I happened across a "The Grand Domestic Revolution (User's Manual)," a project being organized by Casco, a space that explores art in the public realm. Utterly taken by how closely related the project felt to Survival Postures, I was incredibly excited to be able to attend one night of "The Kitchen," a 10 day project where Casco set up a communal kitchen open to whoever wanted to come, at W139, another art space in the city. Every night, 2 teams cooked together, and people doing interesting artistic and political work throughout the city were invited to come talk, present or play around. It was a chaotic, critical, yummy scene, and it was ripe with the kind of participation it takes to make what can be a sad domestic task (like making dinner), into a party.

I was impressed by breadth of people they'd gotten involved, and the crossing over that happened even in the one night I was there, much less the whole 10 days.

Here's a link to the radio show that was being produced from the Kitchen for Red Light radio, with a quick interview one of the organizers Binna Choi, did with me about Survival Postures. It starts around 29:30, but the whole show will give you a sense of what the Kitchen was.

http://www.redlightradio.net/shows/w139radio/kitchen139-08-december-15th

Here are links to other shows from the Kitchen series:
http://www.redlightradio.net/shows/w139radio

And pictures from the series:
http://w139.nl/en/article/20350/kitchen139/

Great news from across the ocean!

The Power of Pizza

Realized recently that I never really broadcast out the story that ran in The Plain Dealer about building the cob oven on Blaine, which is a shame, because the more we can share what an inspiring moment that was, the better.

I've never participated in anything that captured so much curiosity-- and then channeled the curiosity into people wanting to take part in what was happening. That oven was masterful at drawing people together, into conversation, into playing in the mud, into eating pizza in the company of neighbors and strangers...

Go oven! And go Blaine Avenue!

http://www.cleveland.com/taste/index.ssf/2011/08/handmade_pizza_oven_draws_fans.html

And here's more on City Rising Farm:
http://www.cityrisingfarm.com