Food performances
Working with storytelling through all senses: smell, taste, visuals, tactility, temperature, sound, words, space. Artistic partner in the explorative journey is most often Chef and food artist Mettesia Martinussen
The Seeres Tale (Vølvens Spådom)
Teater Republique CPH/Norröna Husid Reykjavik
Site specific Food Performance. By Martin Tullinius, Mette Martinussen, Alette Scavenius and me
The Norse Myth from the 9th century interpreted into song, food, poetry, drink, smell, and images. 7 rooms, 3 different locations, starting with Lokes banquet served on a 30 m long table made out of old books. The dinner is interrupted by a dead spirit that leads the audience into the visions of Ragnarok. We step into the world of the norns predicting the end. We meet the black norn who wears a dress made of 2 tons of old icelandic fishing rope and the Fenris Wolf in a knitted wolf costume with a tale of 25 paperships, before we pass the final fire and destruction.From the ashes rises the new world ,- a gardenhouse full of greenery and cakes hosted by the green and enchanted goddess of the future.
The Snow Queen
Teater Republique ( CPH). Site Specific Food Performance
By Martin Tullinius, Mette Martinussen, Alette Scavenius and me.
H.C.Andersens world famous fairytale from 1844, in which Kay gets captured by the Snow Queen, and Gerda, - his friend, sets out on a long jouney to find him again.On this developement journey we meet the witch in the flower garden with her mystical lace face, the 5 magical and erotic flower spirits in their scented rooms, -serving tea and and paper-poetry to us,- (one by one), the bunch of wild thieves in their black cave (full of atlers, bones and knives) - who offers us a dinner of meat and boiling broth, the strange Lapp witch of the far north, who serves us smoked fish and a song in a camping van. Led by a crow and a reindeer we end up in the ice cold and glistening palace of the Snow Queen, where we are served an icecold tray of desserts, Gerda and Kay fights the Snow queen, who smashes 40 white plates, and are finally united.
Noma- the starvation game
In cooperation with Teater S/H
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall (CPH)
Winner of the scenografical price ” Rum/15”
Concept: Andreas Liebmann, Derek Lesher and me.
Noma is the name of Denmarks no 1 in the world restaurant, but also the name of an illness the infects victims of starvation. It ”eats” the face. In this political performance about world hunger audience are invited to eat a global starvation menu, drink purified water, and take part in the starvation game. A gigantic wood grid net head structure creates a small magic pavillion in the middle of the room. Inside the head you can fill up your soup bowl, and pick a Noma- book, that is the script of the performance, but also a container of crackers you can eat with the soup. A singer and a host leads us throgh the performance, and sings about world hunger statistics. Hidden in 2 of the books for each performance are gift vouchers for a dinner for 2 at the restaurant NOMA!
The Food Mandala
The Banquet
Luncheon on the Grass (Frokost i det Grønne)
