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| === Winter Newsletter 2013 draft === | === Winter Newsletter 2013 draft === |
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| While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere descends into wintry hibernation, it's time look back on FoAM's bustling activities over the last months as well as look forward to what the new year brings. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation). Some things are simmering down, more bubbling up, and there's much that is quite new to all of us. At FoAM Brussels we continue to deepen and broaden our investigations in food and speculative culture. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts, thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a guided tour of the highlights. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! | While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere descends into wintry hibernation, it's time look back on FoAM's bustling activities over the last months as well as look forward to what the new year brings. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation). Some things are simmering down, more is bubbling up, and there's much that is quite new to all of us. At FoAM Brussels we continue to deepen and broaden our investigations in food and speculative culture. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts, thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a guided tour of the highlights. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! |
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| == Food culture == | == Food culture == |
| [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/|Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]]\\ | [[http://flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157635582680823/|Biochymickal Arts on Flickr]]\\ |
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| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_L._Patterson]]| About Meredith\\ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_L._Patterson About Meredith\\ |
| [[http://tarantinofoodvice.wordpress.com/]]|About Maria\\ | http://tarantinofoodvice.wordpress.com/ About Maria\\ |
| [[http://transitlab.org/]]|About Brian\\ | http://transitlab.org/ About Brian\\ |
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| After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, listening and above all cooking, we hosted **Smoke & Vapour**, two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted and evaporated into one other. On the first evening we invited guests from within the FoAM network who gave us feedback about the experience, based on which we tweaked various aspects of the dinner. Two days afterwards we hosted the wider public event, with visitors ranging from civil servants to food stylists, performance artists to food activists. We’re happy that both evenings were well received by our guests, and also gave us such exhilarating pleasure to produce and perform. You can find an 'insider's perspective' of Smoke & Vapour's creation in Maja’s blog post, as well as browse the collection of specially designed recipes for the event. Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. | After weeks of planning, preparation, testing, tasting, listening and above all cooking, we hosted **Smoke & Vapour**, two etherial evenings and degustation dinners dedicated to smoke and vapour in their many forms. Maja Kuzmanovic, Stevie Wishart, Rasa Alksnyte, Nik Gaffney and Alkan Chipperfield composed a synaesthetic experience where food and sound melted and evaporated into one other. On the first evening we invited guests from within the FoAM network who gave us feedback about the experience, based on which we tweaked various aspects of the dinner. Two days afterwards we hosted the wider public event, with visitors ranging from civil servants to food stylists, performance artists to food activists. We’re happy that both evenings were well received by our guests, and also gave us such exhilarating pleasure to produce and perform. You can find an 'insider's perspective' of Smoke & Vapour's creation in Maja’s blog post, as well as browse the collection of specially designed recipes for the event. Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths are currently working on the Open Sauces website, where these and other of FoAM's recipes and food-related information will migrate in 2014. |
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| Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: **Doing Nothing**. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points that pervades the cultural sector (but also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: **Doing Nothing**. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector (though also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page. |
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| [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]] | [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing|Idleness in progress]] |
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