Thursday, March 19, 2020

Fluxus Banquet



Figure 4. Colored Meal, Flux New Year's Eve, December 31, 1974. Color slide, 1,5/16 x 1 3/8 in. (2.3 x 3.5 cm). The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archive, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, NY. Photo: Larry Miller. Digital Image ©The Museum of Modern Art/ Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.

For one Fluxus Banquet, each person brought only foods of a specified color and GM’s chosen color was no-color. He had produced a meal of totally transparent molded gelatins. He somehow reduced the original foods into liquids and then painstakingly distilled them, a drop at  time, into clear liquids to make the gelatins. You could only distinguish what you were eating by the taste which, surprisingly, still remained present – whether beef taste or onion taste, etc. The transparent, hot liquid also tasted just like coffee. 

Source Link:
https://artslb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/The-Readymade-metabolized.pdf

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