exhibition work, interactive kitchen-installation
co-creator: Mait Vesker
apartment exhibition and performance showcase ‘That blue house on baeri street’
curators: Riin Maide and Nele Marie Tiidelepp
february 2021, Tartu
A computer game themed (alternative reality) journey through the kitchen cabinets, letting the audience play with (dumpster dived) food (saw a lard, throw onions at a pig’s head, stab a rotten pumpkin).
review: https://www.muurileht.ee/arvustus-uks-helesinine-maja-baeri-tanaval/
“In the kitchen part of the house there is an installation “I saw a sad documentary…” by Liisbeth Horn and Mait Vesker. The visitor is invited to play a game in which the food collected by dumpster diving has to be lifted from one drawer to another and the pumpkin cooked in the oven must be stabbed. The work has a rather critical undertone: in shortage, you can get your stomach full from Rimi with one euro, but at current time “well-being” does not only mean a full stomach. In the text introducing the work, the authors draw parallels with the past: during the famine in Ukraine, the nutritional value of bread was many times narrower than it is today, but its significance is many times greater. Such parallels are extreme, but suddenly they make us think about how, if and in what well-being we live.
