2012-14
Tessa Zettel
Durational installation with events.
Solo performance/installation project for ANTI Festival of Contemporary Art, Martat community kitchen, Kuopio (Finland), 2012 / Solo performance/installation project for ‘Matters of Life & Death’ program, Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2013 / Shown in group exhibition, NSW Visual Arts Fellowship Finalists Exhibition, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, 2014.
Making Time was a travelling live art project unfolding as an exercise in redirective practice. It consisted of an open kitchen laboratory where participants shared strategies for preservation – of food and of the self. Alongside informal workshops on pickling, bottling and making jam using a variety of locally grown or foraged foods, the kitchen also hosted conversations on our relationship to time, to each other, to making and to unmaking. As an experiment in non-institutional learning, the project builds community knowledge and agency in relation to food security and sustainment, asking how kitchen crafts may themselves be preserved in an age of unsettlement.
The work appeared in numerous locations and forms, including a custom-built mobile preserving cart built from old kitchen cabinets and historic canning equipment, set up each week at Carriageworks Farmers Market. It also hosted workshops in the Woolloomooloo Community Garden, the Reg Murphy Activity Centre, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, and various public art contexts in Germany, France and Finland.
Read OuMoPo blog posts about Making Time here