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The Radical Cola Challenge is an artwork by San Francisco artist Amy Balkin, originally exhibited at commercial gallery Analix Forever in Geneva, 2006 (http:// | The Radical Cola Challenge is an artwork by San Francisco artist Amy Balkin, originally exhibited at commercial gallery Analix Forever in Geneva, 2006 (http:// | ||
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== Public Diet== | == Public Diet== | ||
The Public Diet is defined here as the quandary of how to reconcile //the remit of your organisation// | The Public Diet is defined here as the quandary of how to reconcile //the remit of your organisation// | ||
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The often depleted environs encountered by the contemporary arts practitioner, | The often depleted environs encountered by the contemporary arts practitioner, | ||
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In 2005, Berlin artist Natascha Sadr-Haghighian and I imported 25 electric ricecookers to UK and Germany from their factory source in Iran, and distributed them to a network of subscribers. Social and family connections helped negotiate the direct export from the Pars Khazar ricecooker factory. The import was designed to enlarge the options for basic cooked foods where self-catering is otherwise unavailable. | In 2005, Berlin artist Natascha Sadr-Haghighian and I imported 25 electric ricecookers to UK and Germany from their factory source in Iran, and distributed them to a network of subscribers. Social and family connections helped negotiate the direct export from the Pars Khazar ricecooker factory. The import was designed to enlarge the options for basic cooked foods where self-catering is otherwise unavailable. | ||
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Ricecookers can provide basic portable nutrition in a range of territories. For hospitality and sustenance you just add water, rice and electricity. A ricecooker works fine on the train - for example a sleeper compartment across Bulgaria - also at laptop and vacuum-cleaner sockets at other semi-public spaces such as airport lounges. To cook espresso just remove the inner pot and place espresso pot directly in the heating element. | Ricecookers can provide basic portable nutrition in a range of territories. For hospitality and sustenance you just add water, rice and electricity. A ricecooker works fine on the train - for example a sleeper compartment across Bulgaria - also at laptop and vacuum-cleaner sockets at other semi-public spaces such as airport lounges. To cook espresso just remove the inner pot and place espresso pot directly in the heating element. | ||
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The ricecooker is also good in fixed contexts such as office lunch and event catering within cultural institutions. The menu can go way beyond rice to anything that needs heating. | The ricecooker is also good in fixed contexts such as office lunch and event catering within cultural institutions. The menu can go way beyond rice to anything that needs heating. | ||
- | - At the Cube Microplex, Bristol, staff eat basmati rice from the local food co-op and Indian readymeals from the Asian supermarket on evening shifts. The sprawling all-volunteer staff makes an organised fresh food system difficult to manage but the readymeal range with rice is a good compromise for low price, shelf life, tastiness, range and relative nutrition. The ricecooker is also occasionally used for events, for example making steamed wontons at a music event. | ||
- | - Mute Magazine, London use their ricecooker daily along with a microwave, after building management ripped the stove out of their office kitchen a few years ago. Managing editor Simon Worthington has developed an office lunch menu with items such as risotto, spelt pasta with spinach, red peppers and beetroot, or daikon cod. | ||
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The interfaces where artist and institution collide can show up the extremes of organised culture. Last winter I flew from a two month residency in Bangladesh direct to a one month placement at the Banff Centre, Canada. | The interfaces where artist and institution collide can show up the extremes of organised culture. Last winter I flew from a two month residency in Bangladesh direct to a one month placement at the Banff Centre, Canada. | ||
The Room Selfservice experiment was an attempt to reconcile wildly disparate belief systems, in the rapid transit from self/ | The Room Selfservice experiment was an attempt to reconcile wildly disparate belief systems, in the rapid transit from self/ | ||
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Cube-Cola, a cola manufacturing collaboration with Kayle Brandon, shows how a major beverage can be produced and distributed out of a small cinema. Using an open source recipe developed over four years and an accumulated store of equipment, ingredients and supplier relations, we have found ourselves to be world-leading open source cola developers. Cube-Cola has worldwide distribution in concentrate form via internet order, paypal, hand baggage and mail. External media attention (newspapers and blogs) keeps the project publicly active without any need for publicity or marketing - although sales at this scale only generate enough cash to cover ingredient and equipment costs. A batch of concencentrate taking approximately 2 hours to prepare will make up around 120 litres of cola. An advantage of the project is our own independence from the beverage mainstream - with a 6-month inventory of ingredients, | Cube-Cola, a cola manufacturing collaboration with Kayle Brandon, shows how a major beverage can be produced and distributed out of a small cinema. Using an open source recipe developed over four years and an accumulated store of equipment, ingredients and supplier relations, we have found ourselves to be world-leading open source cola developers. Cube-Cola has worldwide distribution in concentrate form via internet order, paypal, hand baggage and mail. External media attention (newspapers and blogs) keeps the project publicly active without any need for publicity or marketing - although sales at this scale only generate enough cash to cover ingredient and equipment costs. A batch of concencentrate taking approximately 2 hours to prepare will make up around 120 litres of cola. An advantage of the project is our own independence from the beverage mainstream - with a 6-month inventory of ingredients, | ||
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== Disaster | == Disaster | ||
The aesthetics of emergency and survival have more normally been monopolised by other interests: the military, outdoor adventure catalogues, NASA, or memories of WWII (hoarding flour, eggs, lard etc). The above techniques for alternate emergency provisioning have been rehearsed from position of luxury (IE. choice), although as training they could be prescient. The collapse of the Bristol flagship store of Fresh and Wild in September 2008 - a luxury foods supermarket in Bristol owned by the US giant Wholefoods, whose core values include creating wealth through profits & growth - signals a singular tremor in the fine food market. | The aesthetics of emergency and survival have more normally been monopolised by other interests: the military, outdoor adventure catalogues, NASA, or memories of WWII (hoarding flour, eggs, lard etc). The above techniques for alternate emergency provisioning have been rehearsed from position of luxury (IE. choice), although as training they could be prescient. The collapse of the Bristol flagship store of Fresh and Wild in September 2008 - a luxury foods supermarket in Bristol owned by the US giant Wholefoods, whose core values include creating wealth through profits & growth - signals a singular tremor in the fine food market. | ||
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In Fresh and Wild's absence, more inspiring suppliers in Bristol include the Womens Institute - a UK rebel network of highly organised cake and scone makers. And November 2008's Cube-Cola Producers' | In Fresh and Wild's absence, more inspiring suppliers in Bristol include the Womens Institute - a UK rebel network of highly organised cake and scone makers. And November 2008's Cube-Cola Producers' | ||
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Photos show Castle Park cherry and cheese pierogis supplied for the Cube Outdoors Riverxing Exercise (Bristol); and unlicensed sandal espresso stand at a northern England food fair (Gateshead). | Photos show Castle Park cherry and cheese pierogis supplied for the Cube Outdoors Riverxing Exercise (Bristol); and unlicensed sandal espresso stand at a northern England food fair (Gateshead). | ||
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