The Center for Genomic Gastronomy - Planetary Sculpture Supper Clubs
The Center for Genomic Gastronomy is an independent research institute engaged in exploring, examining and understanding the genomes and biotechnologies that make up the human food systems of planet earth. We are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge at the intersection of food, culture, ecology and technology. The Center presents its research through public lectures, research publications, meals and exhibitions.
Laura Hughes - Laura Hughes creates site-specific installation environments that analyze and redirect our perceptions within our architectural surroundings. Combining light, paint, and structural modifications to a space, her work challenges the assumptions we make about what surrounds us allowing us to see what is usually overlooked. Her reordered spatial vocabulary, which invokes both apprehension and imagination, works to illuminate and challenge our standard perceptions of space.
Judith Fay Pulman - Forms, Losing, and Family
I'll start with my current project--I am a young poet who has lost both my parents in the past seven years--hard, hard personal losses, especially to a person with a small family. I am interested in the metaphysics of losing one's cherished models, known forms. Inheritance, both personal and literary, is a blessing and also can be a heavy burden. How does one not inherit the traits of their parents, sharing genes and outward features, as one does? On a poetic level, even if I feel natious reading John Keats' poems, I cannot ignore his legacy and must understand myself as part of it. In my work, I occupy many poetic forms in order to subvert them, to make them mine, to inherit more fully these recieved principles. I also try not to take myself too seriously.
Danielle Ross - The Why Behind The What: To Remember Is To Jump Around There
I am a choreographer, a dancer, a curator, and a moment-maker. I make dances that start with something familiar and end with something new. My dances revolve around our collective social choreography. I'm drawn to moments that allow quirk, awkwardness, and vulnerability to rise to the surface, and I am drawn to inflating what we often don't say in social interaction. You may hear me calling this "the space between." I'm currently working on a work titled, "To Remember Is To Jump Around There." It will be shown in late fall of 2011.
