September 19—20, 2015
Serralves Museum,
Porto, Portugal

Performance

“Canteens” are a series of collective meals where an object and its edible double, made of bread, are simultaneously presented to an audience.

Gathered around the same table, seated or not, the participants are invited to eat or to dismiss eating the double. 

“Canteen—Machine” presents two objects, the ‘Regulator’ and the ‘Parallel’.

Both objects are based in two mechanical components of a steam machine, controlling its pressure control and conducting energy.

The proposal (…) assumes the status of a “first supper” while acting as a double magic of attraction, both by the act of eating together and by the challenge of the meanings in the physical and metaphorical exploration of the meal exercise. Bread will be the “object”, the element of circulation, in the real or symbolic realm, between all the participants, performing that partition, that narrative and communitarian interaction.

David Santos