Elizabeth Willing Performance 5pm | Slow Churn Launch 6pm

Join us on Friday 8 April at 5pm for a live, participatory food performance by exhibiting artist Elizabeth Willing before celebrating the launch of the Slow Churn exhibition.

Featuring work by Zanny Begg, Lindy Lee, Mylyn Nguyen, Jody Rallah, Yasmin Smith, Judy Watson and Elizabeth Willing, Slow Churn explores the delicate interactions and interdependencies that exist between us and our natural world.

Brisbane based artist Elizabeth Willing will invite audience members on opening night to consume and share in a food experience that will both create and destroy her artwork produced for the Slow Churn exhibition at The Condensery.

Elizabeth’s work, Kernel, asks audience members to dig, meld, gouge and slather butter from a 30kg block onto freshly boiled corn cobs for their own consumption. The butter left over at the end of the night will be moulded and cast with silicone into an enduring sculpture shown as part of the exhibition. Guests personal actions and consumption will be captured in the shape, scale and consistency of the final work presented in the gallery space – as a testament to the varied and personalised approaches to eating, our relationship with food and the point at which food transforms from a fruit of nature into an industrial, manufactured product of seemingly limitless consumption.

Elizabeth Willing uses food as her primary subject and material. Willing’s practice takes audiences through a sculptural and multisensory journey into the potential, history, limitations and costs of food and food production. Her work includes sculpture, installation, performance and participatory dining events that engage audiences through smell, taste, and touch.

In addition to hot corn with butter, refreshments will be served by Woongooroo Estate Winery and the Picnic Society, Toogoolawah.

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The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Somerset Regional Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.