Concre[tefood]
Thoughts on the performance

A central theme of Concre[tefood] was the collection and destruction of knowledge, knowledge represented in the form of text. It was based around the relation of education and experience and the questions of truth and belief. In the original designs, this implication was much more explicit than in the eventual performance.

The concept of fragmented reality (in this performance) comes from my general philosophy (see philosophy) and the influence of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, which I have read recently, and also to an extent by the films of David Lynch in which threads of information and character motives are disguised and distorted and weaved in complex relations.

The title Conre[tefood] obviously derived from the title of the exhibition. The performance was based on the interpretation of the idea "Concrete Food" which came to represent mental consumption ie. the gathering of knowledge.

I personally think of the title as Conquer (the Food).