Come and join us for tasty morsels and cool drinks.
We will be serving up fish tacos á la Hull, sumptuously prepared with participatory audio accompaniment.
In person, or streaming live, along the beautiful River Hull corridor.

This project took the form of a performance-picnic staged at Hull Time Based Arts headquarters as part of an artist residency, 2003. The picnic functioned as a live event in which participants “performed” their role as consumers of both information and food. The work functioned as a tracing of local economies through the very act of organizing the picnic: developing the menu, purchasing food, and shopping at local grocers provided the opportunity to inquire into local food distribution policy, structures, economies. We chose to cook Mexican food to highlight our status as outsiders and as a method of inquiring into particular local culinary habits by overlaying a "foreign" cuisine onto the city. The work highlighted our navigation of contact with local structures and suppliers, adopting the picnic as a social platform through which the very act of consumption invited a form of participation, where the individual body underscored the implicit relationship to larger infrastructures of the local economy and food distribution. The audience became aware of consumption of food products as an element of the infrastructure of food economy, from agriculture and packaging to production, distribution, and purchasing of food products specific to the city. The picnic was staged on the riverfront, where we cooked fish tacos, mixed music related to the country of origin of each ingredient, amplified discussions taking place around the table, and provided a place-mat which mapped the movements of each ingredient in the meal from it's original geographic origin to it's arrival in Hull.