Media Plate is a performance event using the form of a shared meal to engage questions of generosity and intimacy. We have asked that visitors bring a plate to exchange with another that we have prepared with food and a diagram of a model of communication. The performance poses several questions: How is food tied to intimacy and generosity as a form of communication? How do notions of 'the raw and the cooked' function as contemporary signifiers? Perhaps, most significantly for this event, how does the structure of the table propose a particular form of intimacy? The material object of the dining table choreographs the act of dining, the embodied movements of eating and becomes incorporated into the collective sharing of a meal. Dining, in this sense, is full of communicative messages, both literal actions and secondary gestures and nuance. Tonight we ask you to engage with the construction of a table or table-like structure that might propose alternative forms of intimacy.