hand to mouth is a participatory performance event concieved and directed by Boo Chapple and Adele Varcoe with the assistance of their amazing team of helpers, chefs, performers, eaters and production crew
The first event took place on the 29th of June, 2008 at the Meat Market, Melbourne. It involved a live jazz band, a production line of forty people in uniform and an elevated table of eight celebrity guests. The productionline worked to prepare strange and exotic meals packaged in gloves, or cast in the shape of hands that were served up to the guests by three very fancy waitresses. Positioned between the production line and the dinner guests was a large pile of waste saved from the three weeks of pre- production, that grew in size with the discards from each meal. The whole undertaking was stage managed and documented by a crew of people in black. Please visit hand-to-mouth.org to read on...
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Photographed by Boo Chapple and Bow Wong
Adele Varcoe
HAND TO MOUTH
Participatory Dinner Party
Arts House, Meat Market, Melbourne
THE MENU
String of Pearls
Topioca pearls slow cooked in our finest vegetable stock &
Fresh Leather Stuffed
Pumpkin, pine nuts & parmasan ravioli with a Napoli sauce
John;s Accident
Lamb shank, with creamy mashed potato, asparagus fingers & a red wine reduction
Bloody Mary
Tomato juice, vodka, worcestershire sauce, tobasco & celery garnet
Carpal Tunnel
Brandy smap, fresh whipped cream & rasberry coulis
Sweet Surgery
Mixed berry trifle
Finger It
Dark chocolate mousse, white chocolate mould
Doggy Bag
Something special to take home