Event date:
February 28, 2020 - February 28, 2020 Export event
On Friday, 28th February, The Artist Dining Room at Guest Projects invites you to explore the celebrated poems of renowned Lebanese painter, Etel Adnan.
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Rather than beginning with Etel Adnan’s visual work, the dinner will take its starting point in Etel Adnan’s 1980 poem, The Arab Apocalypse. Guest Host and artist, Sophia Al-Maria will be leading the guests through the text course-by-course and verse-by-verse in a series of live readings and videos recorded in the many languages Adnan speaks by contemporary artists who have been inspired by her words.
(Page from) Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse, 1980
There will be pearl divers and black suns and cosmic sailboats and firing guns. Expect a simple feast of plenty. Four naturally elegant courses studded with the glyphs Adnan peppers throughout her poem.
The unfolding of this meal encourages us to not just hear the words but to listen to them. And to not just eat the food, but taste it!
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CHEF CHARLTON NICOLL WILL BE CREATING A FOUR-COURSE PESCATARIAN BANQUET CELEBRATING THE THEMES AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDNAN’S WORK.
Guest Host: Sophia Al-Maria is an artist and writer based in London. Her film Beast Type Song currently on at the Tate Britain until February 22, 2020, was dedicated to Etel and takes this poem as an inspiration. In 2019 she published a book of collected writing called Sad Sack with Bookworks, UK.
Guest Chef: Charlton Nicoll is a chef, consultant, events manager and food writer. After a degree in ceramics, he moved into the kitchen. He went to Leiths in 2007 and completed the Diploma in food and wine with distinction. Twelve years of restaurants, private clients, festivals and charities he now runs Glutton London, an events and catering company.
Etel Adnan on Mount Tamalpais California courtesy the artist and Sfeir Semler Gallery
The Artist Dining Room is located at artist Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects space in East London. The Artist Dining Room collaborates with London-based chefs to hold a series of unique and bespoke artist-led supper clubs, offering an alternative dining experience where creative minds can engage and immerse themselves in the life and works of an artist through food. Previous supper clubs have been inspired by artists and art movements, including Louise Bourgeois, David Lynch, Kurt Schwitters, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Sophie Calle, Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, Francesca Woodman, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Derek Jarman.
Guest Projects is an initiative conceived by artist Yinka Shonibare CBE which offers the opportunity to practitioners, of any artistic discipline (dance, visual arts, music), to have access to a free project space. Alongside Regent’s Canal, Guest Projects provides an alternative universe and playground for artists. It is a laboratory of ideas and a testing ground for new thoughts and actions.