Seminar Pencil

Serves 35

The tables should be set up and sandwiches made before the event.

Seminar Pencil

Ingredients:35 participants5 loaves of bread2 jars of peanut butter 2 jars of Jam10 plastic knives2 tablesLarge table cloth

Preparation:The event is set up as per the diagram below

Method: The organisation of the participants is key to this event as the creation

of a divide between the organiser and the viewer is particularly

important. Not as part of a hierarchy, but as to enable the rules of the

game to form more effectively. Firstly you must show an artwork. Then take the artwork away. The idea is simply to reward the

participants that ask a question of the artwork. Awarding them with

peanut butter and jam sandwich can do this. When in receipt of a

sandwich the inquirer feels pleased and this promotes the asking of questions.

High order questions are seen as more effective but are not

differentiated with reward. Enabling all thought processes to be seen as

valid.

Cooking time: Thirty minutes is the appropriate time for the creation of a solid dialogue. Providing for ideas to be entertained and then examined.

Serving suggestions: Having more than one

facilitator is

useful, as the

handing out of

sandwiches is hard to do

whilst another

facilitator

encourages the

dialogue.

VCA Breakfast

Serves 17

VCA Breakfast

Ingredients:17 participants3 tables25 chairs30 Croissants 2 kg Bananas500g Grapes5 Aluminium trays1 Photocopied publication 30 Paper plates30 Polystyrene cups2 cameras

Preparation:

The event is set up as per the diagram below

Method: The seating delineates the appropriate spaces and distances for

participants, who are free to choose whomever they sit next to. They

are able to choose from the food and drink that is served. However,

they are directed in conversation by the publication - as it is the focus for their dialogue, just as an agenda would direct the focus of

a business meeting. The idea of the ‘round’ table discussion is that

there is no hierarchy and that all views are understood as equal and

valued similarly. However, there is always a leader/adjudicator of this operation.

Cooking time: Forty-five minutes is the appropriate time for a typical breakfast

meeting. It allows the reading of the publication and discussion of

surrounding ideas.

Serving suggestions: Suggest that people should eat the food; it is not part of the

sculpture.

People should not

be hesitant to be

involved, all value

judgements are

appreciated.

Make the table as

small as possible

to stop people

hiding in the corners.

sculpture.

Incidental (Co)Incidents

Serves 10

Incidental (Co)Incidents

Ingredients:10 participants12 eggs 2 kg Bacon500g Baked beans1 packet Tetley tea bags500ml Milk2 loaves 2 tables20 Plastic knives and forks20 Paper plates50 Serviettes20 Polystyrene cups

Preparation:

The event is set up as per the diagram below

Method: Unlike most of the artworks in this series the cooking is actually part

of the artwork. The conventions of giving food have many

connotations, which this artwork plays upon and off. Giving a

lecture whilst making the breakfast adds a different facet and eliminates the conversation about the artwork, until the food is

prepared and is being consumed. When discussing the food/artwork

different value systems come into play as the saltiness of the bacon

raises just as much questioning as the value given to an artwork, or the weather. There is a hierarchy only in the relationship between

the chef and the participant. With the questions ranging in outcome

and relevance to artwork, outcomes vary and equality is reached

very easily.

Cooking time: Culinary expertise is

one of the most important factors. It

is the smells, which

encourage interaction

with the chef and the

kitchen arena. As long as you have

enough hot water and

tea bags,

conversation is

limitless..

Serving suggestions: Art work can be brought up as a topic of conversation by participants.

Paths of discussion can be created through choosing who you invite

to breakfast

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META Interview with Warren Taylor

Serves 16

Meta Interview with Warren Taylor

Ingredients:16 participantsPublication1 digital camera 2 sound recording devices1 packet Doritos 1 packet Jaffas1.25l Schweppes Agrum 1.25l Coca Cola8 chairs 5 tables20 Polystyrene cups

Preparation:

The event is set up as per the diagram below

Method: Collecting together participants in a circle of inappropriate furniture

allows a shabby chic and relaxed feel to a meeting. This allows for

conversation to be obscure without too much pretention. All snacks are to be eaten before the interviewee arrives as to not disturb the

sound recording. This intermittent period allows for reading of

printed publication, and discussion to surround this.

When the interviewee arrives, construct questions that relate to subject matter that is in the publication (inserted). Therefore,

relating to previous topics of conversation. This encourages

participants to interject when others are speaking and eliminate the

roles of singular interviewer and interviewee. In this way a range of

knowledge’s and topics can be addressed.

Cooking time: 30 minutes is the appropriate time

for a grilling of one

individual.

Serving

suggestions: Pre determined

questions could

lead the

conversation in a particular direction.

As a general rule,

however, specific questions are a good way to start an interview so

that all participants feel more at ease.

stions are a good way to start an interview so

Meeting Space for Organisation of

World Domination by Short People

Who Have Too Much of an Ego

Serves 10

Meeting Space for Organisation of World Domination by Short People Who Have Too Much of an Ego.

Ingredients:10 participants10 chairs 3 large tables20 bagels300 sheets of paper10 pencils 10 pensBagel recipe printedTea, coffee, milk etc

Preparation:The event is set up as per the diagram below

Method: The organisation of the participants prior to the start of the event is

key. Bake bagels and arrange the table for all participants to be able to

sit down and prepare themselves. These participants are called Agents, and are not allowed to verbally communicate throughout the event.

They should be given two stacks of paper, a pencil and a biro. The left

hand stack is for writing comments about the piece, and the right is for

communicating, simply through symbols.

The second set of participants is then invited to join the event and they

are described as Visitors. These Visitors are able to watch over the

Agents but cannot communicate with them, they can only comment to

other Visitors about conversations that the Agents appear to be

holding.

Cooking time: Forty-five minutes is the appropriate time for a typical

conversation symbology to be created and then begin to be used.

Serving suggestions: Table should be made as small as possible to enable communication between all inner participants; Agents.

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