Breakfast on a sour grass
Performance
Gallery 101, Kaunas, Lithuania
Arklių str. 6 cellar, Vilnius, Lithuania
Kaunas Artist's House, Kaunas, Lithuania
MASS Alexandria, Egypt
2017, 2018
It is a get-together for a collective eating experience, a ritual. Space and time where memory, visions and questions intertwine. What does it mean to sit down in a circle around food, what memory stretches through the culture of collective eating? What recipes and gestures will shape the future ritual of collective eating? What will become the memory of what we still don’t remember today?
Together with Gabrielė Leonavičė we have organised a few rituals of collective food. During all of them we used the same elements - a vegan waffle recipe, a brightly-coloured carpet, dim light of the moon, smells and conversations on life style, diet and psychedelics.
Vegan on Acid It is a temporary identity, initiated in an isolated space for an agreed duration. It's a repetitive research aimed to explore relations and manipulate conjunctions between body and psyche. A possibility and responsibility to invent new combinations between elements and ideas. It is a ritual which express gratitude for what we were, we are, and may become.
As an artistic study it is aimed to actualize diet and a lifestyle. Diet regimes shape the individual and the community, influence perception and create ideologies. Nutrition habits support or break the routines of everyday life. Existing diet/lifestyle studies touch public, economic, and political issues. For us, it is a gratifying tool for creating artistic beginnings, performing interventions, initiating temporary communities, opening spaces of ritual. We care about diet anthropology, diet as a critique and a game. In our projects we initiate events, make performances, installations, objects, etc. Intention of these actions is to imagine a future of human diet, relationships with traditions, responsibilities and choices. The task of this study is to formulate new rituals and practices of life and crystallize visions of new subjectivity.
Vegan on Acid signify our works as artists. It's used in order to hide appearances and to reveal intentions. To be sincere and to play naive. We aren't continuously loaded or high, but we are enthusiastic about power of altered states of mind when it remains response-able. Besides looking for bright visions in a ceremonial darkness we explore ways of connecting archaic and contemporary, sacred and daily, primitive and posthuman.
We are learning to remember old recipes for a new time.
