ORGANIC FOOD FESTIVAL

Event: Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 September 2005
Normal opening hours apply
Free

The Organic Food Festival is Europe's largest celebration of organic food and drink. New for 2005 is the world's first food festival arts fringe dedicated entirely to music, theatre, film and visual art incorporating and inspired by food and drink.

Blessing
Kamini Gupta
Kamini Gupta is a visual artist, theatre designer, writer and creative explorer. She creates site responsive installations using mixed media and co-creates original performance works. Her work explores ritual, myth and symbols, cultural connections, and the notion of impermanence, transformation and interdependence. Her installation, Blessing, will explore notions of interdependence and the celebration and offering of food across cultures.

"Every culture has it's traditions and rituals that honour and give thanks for the Earth's harvest. These rituals have their roots in the uncertainty of life and being at the mercy of the forces of nature. A good harvest was a blessing. Today, in the West, we take our food for granted, it arrives looking perfect in plastic, we stick it in the microwave and consume it in front of the telly as we watch the latest report of freak floods and forest fires."

GORGEous
Nikki Allford
GORGEous is a new work created for the festival using sumptuous images of gilded fruit, and is concerned with the consumer’s desire for a constant supply of exotic fruit and vegetables all year round: food that is transported across the globe to satisfy this demand. The images take the form of a postcard to represent travel and distance.

The proximity of the work to Bristol's Harbourside also represents travel and makes reference to the history of the docks when exotic goods were transported as part of the slave trade. The piece echoes the abundance of produce in season in September, and asks us to consider where our food comes from.

Installation artist Nikki Allford exhibits extensively in the UK, often using edible materials in her work to explore notions of home and obsessions with food.

For more information, visit www.organicfoodfairs.co.uk

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