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CJ Munn
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Started On : 17-Sep-2006 at 11:10:19 AM, #Views : 7582
Topic Subject : Bread Casting |
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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.
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.
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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