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Artist in Residence: Andrea Sham
May
29
to Jun 28

Artist in Residence: Andrea Sham

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Self-taught pastry artist, Andrea Sham approaches culinary creation like an artist composing her canvas: first comes inspiration and imagination, then comes ornamented shapes and soft, sour colors. recognizable at first glance, andrea sham’s ultra-aesthetic cakes are like poetic gourmet compositions. Deeply inspired by the beauty and potential of nature, Sham’s creations are as good as they are beautiful.

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Autophagies  (Self-Eaters) by Eva Doumbia
Feb
23
to Feb 26

Autophagies (Self-Eaters) by Eva Doumbia

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Autophagies (Stories of bananas, rice, tomatoes, peanuts, palm trees. And fruit, sugar, chocolate) is a show halfway between theatre and group tasting session. Eva Doumbia plays the role of a master of ceremonies who invites the audience to a "documentary eucharist" orchestrated by the chef Alexandre Bella Ola.

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Solitude Dining by Frida Foberg
Oct
15
1:00 PM13:00

Solitude Dining by Frida Foberg

An individual farm-to-table meal featuring seasonal foods prepared by Swedish artist and architect Frida Foberg, served at her installation “Never Alone”. The guest will be seated by half of a table in-front of a mirror, where they will be served a light yet vibrant 3 course meal to be enjoyed in solitude. The meal takes place during the NAFAS festival, and other visitors are likely to be present at the time of the event.

The cuisine is influenced by Frida’s Scandinavian roots. She works closely with regional and local organic farms, and builds the menu based on what is harvested at the time of the event. Guests can expect the three courses to feature seasonal produce and products, where vegetables are the majority of the meal.

This performance dinner is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Fruit Scores // Marisa Tornello
Oct
14
7:30 PM19:30

Fruit Scores // Marisa Tornello

Fruit Scores is a study on transience, delight, improvisation, decay, and nourishment. Living as a rapidly evolving composition and visual/performance art piece, Fruit Scores takes a closer look at the anatomy of fruit and musical interpretation of that anatomy. Defining characteristics of each fruit can be viewed not only as art and food, but also as rules and instructions, communicating textural + tonal expression depending on the specific features of each fruit.

This concert is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Sunset Cocktails and Leaked Recipes: à table with JBE Books
Oct
12
7:00 PM19:00

Sunset Cocktails and Leaked Recipes: à table with JBE Books

A special evening, at sunset, with cocktails and leaked recipes.

This event, presented in partnership with Books Are Magic is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Art and Cake Gathering by HaYom and Wandel
Oct
8
2:00 PM14:00

Art and Cake Gathering by HaYom and Wandel

HaYom and Wandel are two Brooklyn-based companies and they celebrate and reinterpret traditions and heritage.

This event is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.


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Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony // Maho Ogawa
Oct
7
7:30 PM19:30

Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony // Maho Ogawa

The Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony explores the relationships between individuality and formality through the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The gestures and elements in the Japanese Tea Ceremony will be remixed as choreographic material to recreate our current Tea Ceremony, assessing the meanings of each gesture and the act of offering and receiving.

This dance performance is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Bánh mì workshop by Sherry Muyuan He
Oct
2
2:00 PM14:00

Bánh mì workshop by Sherry Muyuan He

A pop-up book workshop by Sherry Muyuan He where people learn to assemble a paper Bánh mì. The ingredients will be printed on paper and ready at the workshop.

This workshop is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Club Bijou Cinema
Oct
1
7:30 PM19:30

Club Bijou Cinema

Food has always inspired movie directors and artists. Marco Ferreri, Prune Nourry and Jan Švankmajer are our guests of honor for this exceptional and unique movie night

The Club Bijou Cinema night presented in partnership with Villa Albertine, is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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An Evening of Reading Cooked by Adam Dalva
Sep
29
7:30 PM19:30

An Evening of Reading Cooked by Adam Dalva

The senses are a crucial aspect of great literature - and nothing is more powerfully sense-evoking than food, which moves beyond taste and into the realms of smell, texture, sight, and sound. Food is especially potent in writing because it is also the crucial sensory aspect of memory. Garth Greenwell, Raven Leilani, Sanaë Lemoine and Brandon Taylor, are sensualists in the best sense of the word, and they use food brilliantly in their writing. Adam Dalva brings them to the communal table.

This event is presented in partnership with Books Are Magic is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including a group exhibition of 35 visual artists and a series of performances and events to open on September 10, 2022, for the launch of our 14th season and running until October 15, 2022.

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Odd Apples: A Botanical and Cultural History + Rare Fruit & Tasting by William Mullan
Sep
25
2:00 PM14:00

Odd Apples: A Botanical and Cultural History + Rare Fruit & Tasting by William Mullan

Brooklyn-based artist William Mullan invites you for a presentation on the apple’s history, from it's Miocene-beginning to its historical intersections with migration, capitalism, and culture. The presentation will feature a tasting of dozens of rare and odd apples.

This tasting event, presented in partnership with MOFAD, is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Neurodivergent Pickling by Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo & Julie Dind
Sep
24
11:00 AM11:00

Neurodivergent Pickling by Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo & Julie Dind

Neurodivergent Pickling is an ephemeral installation, a ritual, and an endurance performance. Over the span of several hours, two neurodivergent performers obsessively wash, cut, and line up vegetables until the floor is filled with them, before turning them into pickles. The piece proposes to invite neurodivergent gestures into the realm of food. The process of making Persian pickles [Shoori شوری] turns into a framed fractal motion, offering a reflection on culture and rituals.

This performance, presented in partnership with MOFAD, is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Duck Parade, a Story by Anne Terrail
Sep
22
7:00 PM19:00

Duck Parade, a Story by Anne Terrail

A restaurant is like a theater, it has a backstage, actors, dancers, staging, even its own music. A great restaurant is a space that surpasses the everyday: governed by its own rhythms and codes, populated by devotees, dominated by the figure and the voice of a father who, having once dreamed of a career on the stage, instead built his life around this Tower, the restaurant Tour D'argent in Paris.

This performance is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Foodmasku Dining In
Sep
10
7:30 PM19:30

Foodmasku Dining In

A live performance of a couple having dinner. Their food will be served on people wearing food masks, and the performance will culminate with the diners wearing food masks themselves while “dining in.”

This performance is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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Another Taste (openminded omnivores) by Chef Samuel Ezra Fisch
Sep
10
7:00 PM19:00

Another Taste (openminded omnivores) by Chef Samuel Ezra Fisch

The opening reception hors d'oeuvres is featuring an eclectic arrangement of world arthropods for you to taste. You have been eating bugs your whole life. Maybe as an adventurous child you tried an ant and found it to be delightfully sour. Most of the bugs you eat, you have no idea about.

This culinary event is part of NAFAS, a five-week festival including an exhibition of 36 visual artists and a series of performances and events celebrating the union of food and art.

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An Essay About the Exhibition "Nafas" by Adam Dalva
Sep
10
to Oct 15

An Essay About the Exhibition "Nafas" by Adam Dalva

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[…] Great art should involve food, I feel, because the gustatory moments of our lives are aligned with both desire and the thwarting of desire. Food is also the crucial sensory aspect of memory. Think of the chocolate you ate right before you decided to leave your lover; the childhood sandwich that your cruel babysitter prepared; the last meal you ever ate with a dead loved one. The memory is locked in by what we consumed during the memory. In the case of the lead of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, of course, a humble madeleine thrusts the lead back into a 3000-page reverie. It’s not that the madeleine itself is particularly remarkable—it’s what it’s associated with, redolent of childhood walks, a beloved grandmother, and the most shameful of secrets. […]

This essay is about NAFAS, a new exhibition about Food from September 10 to October 15, 2022

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Nafas
Sep
10
to Oct 15

Nafas

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The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn NY) is thrilled to present Nafas, an exhibition gathering 36 visual artists who are working with and around the theme of food. Nafas is also a five-week festival of performances and events.

In Arabic, Nafas is a breath or a spirit. But in the context of cooking, nafas is much more than that, “It’s the energy some people possess that makes their meals not only good but exceptional”

In their painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, photography, embroidery, writing, cuisine and performance, the artists gathered by Lucien Zayan, director of The Invisible Dog, bring this indefinable breath that makes their art exceptional.

Check out the full program here

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