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The (Neo) Avant-Garde and (Their) Kitchen(s): Potluck and Participation
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 22:46 authored by Lee, FMJ, Maria KundaAbstract: “Our Day Will Come” (ODWC) was a month-long alternative art school, or ‘free school’, staged in Tasmania during the spring of 2011 by curatorial-artist Paul O’Neill, in the context of a wider programme of art events entitled “Iteration:Again”. Sited in the forecourt of the Tasmanian School of Art at the University of Tasmania, ODWC was a pedagogical experiment that offered a range of alternative educational experiences to self-selected participants or collaborators. It drew on, and engendered, acts of hospitality. Contributing to the project were nine invited artists from the UK, the US and Ireland, one of whom was Mick Wilson. Mick Wilson’s involvement in the project is the main focus of this paper. Wilson’s primary contributions to the project were his hosting of a series of four potluck meals and facilitating numerous conversations, including those conducted around a purpose-built conversation table designed by US artist Gareth Long. To frame and critique the convivial and dialogical aspects of ODWC, this paper briefly contextualises ODWC against vintage avant-garde experiments with food in art, and draws on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s writings on the hermeneutic requirements of considering the ‘other’ in conversation.
History
Publication title
The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the ArtsVolume
7Pagination
33-41ISSN
2326-9960Department/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
Common GroundPlace of publication
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