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Started On : 17-Sep-2006 at 07:00:03 PM, #Views : 6047
Topic Subject : Re: Bread Casting |
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CJ-
I'm just surprised plaster bandage survived oven baking. How thick was the
mold? How much did the dough swell (rise) ? Did the baker have to slice it
flat?
Lost all my old emails a couple of months ago.. at least i'd transferred
pics I like to other files.
Dan
> From: aliforum@lifecasting.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:10:22 -0400
> To: archicast@earthlink.net
> Subject: Bread Casting( Message No. 1153)
>
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> Post Date : Sunday 17th of September 2006 11:10:19 AM
> Posted by : "CJ Munn" cj@rockabelly.co.uk
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> Bread Casting:--
> Hi, This weekend was the Thames Festival in London, and included an art event
> called 'Eat Me' by an artist called Sharon Baker. For this piece, Andre
> Masters and myself cast Sharon's full body in a number of poses using just
> plaster bandage. The moulds were then filled with bread dough and baked in the
> biggest bread ovens in Britain. The resulting human-loaves were displayed this
> weekend at the festival and after a discussion about the pieces and lengthy
> question/answer sessions, the audience was invited to cut, saw, and rip apart
> the bodies and then eat them with butter.
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> It was a very fun art show to be a part of. The audience got to choose how the
> first cut was made (sawing off of the head, which I found too real and
> disturbing for comfort). Some people could not bring themselves to eat the
> bread, as they could not switch off from the idea it was a human body and
> therefore cannibalistic. Some people made religious comparisons, but Sharon is
> an athiest, so to her it was more about engaging with an audience who would
> eat her and poop her out into different parts of the world to become one with
> the natural world.
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> It was a very tiring job, doing 3 full body casts (2 of them were in 6 parts
> due to trying to fit them into the oven) in one day with just the two of us.
> But hugely rewarding, and very interesting to be a part of something so
> different that engaged a large audience so well. Within minutes of the
> dissection, there was nothing but crumbs left. The bread was surprisingly
> delicious.
>
> I thought I'd mention it here because I thought people would be surprised at
> the kind of detail you could get from such a strange casting material. If you
> are making the bread to eat you have to use an edible release on the inside of
> the mould of course, which means you lose detail but if you just want to make
> the bread for fun and not to eat then I recommend avoiding release oils as you
> get much better detail.
>
> I'm going to try a bread head for Halloween, and maybe a limb or two.
>
> Just a quick aside note to apologise to those in the group I owe
> emails/invoices to. My hard disk died losing me my last 3 years
> work/contacts/emails but through a very lengthy and annoyingly expensive
> computer forensics process I've managed to recover most of it, and am just
> catching up bit by bit with things on my 'todo' list, so really sorry if you
> thought I was ignoring you. It's all been quite hectic but I am gradually
> getting back to normal and should be in touch real soon.
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> ALI is an international organization whose members are engaged in the art and
> creative industries. Its purpose is to promote the art of life casting, create
> public awareness of this unique art form, provide its members with forums to
> exchange information, resources to enhance their effectiveness and advance
> opportunities for their artistic success.
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