Everything?s On The Table : Reframing The Dining Table as A ?Counter - architecture? to Superfood Phenomena
From supermarkets to superfoods, contemporary cultures of food production to consumption are based on the illusion that the crowning designation of ?super? status represents a reliable global economic boom of food commodities in-play rather than a signal of an expanding cyclical agricultural crisis. Across diverse spaces that facilitate the extraction, transformation and distribution of food in this cycle?farms, warehouses, factories, grocery stores, restaurants?it is the domestic dining table, typically confined to food consumption, that is framed as a site for reinvention in the installation ?Everything?s on theTable?.
Installation Side view. Image © Maeve Fitzhoward
From supermarkets to superfoods, contemporary cultures of food production to consumption are based on the illusion that the crowning designation of ?super? status represents a reliable global economic boom of food commodities in-play rather than a signal of an expanding cyclical agricultural crisis. Across diverse spaces that facilitate the extraction, transformation and distribution of food in this cycle?farms, warehouses, factories, grocery stores, restaurants?it is the domestic dining table, typically confined to food consumption, that is framed as a site for reinvention in the installation ?Everything?s on theTable?.
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Installation Side view. Image © Maeve Fitzhoward
From supermarkets to superfoods, contemporary cultures of food production to consumption are based on the illusion that the crowning designation of ?super? status represents a reliable global economic boom of food commodities in-play rather than a signal of an expanding cyclical agricultural crisis. Across diverse spaces that facilitate the extraction, transformation and distribution of food in this cycle?farms, warehouses, factories, grocery stores, restaurants?it is the domestic dining table, typically confined to food consumption, that is framed as a site for reinvention in the installation ?Everything?s on theTable?.
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