Spatula + Barcode
Central Library Bubbler Room
September - October 2016
Artists Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson, along with an evolving team of collaborators, were in residence at The Bubbler as part of their year-long project Foodways Madison, which focused on building community understanding of food systems of all kinds, from food production to waste disposal. It also included our individual and family “food systems”—how we “do food.” The overall Foodways project includes partnerships with farmers, artists, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Triennial, and many units of the University of Wisconsin.
Clark and Peterson installed the Food Systems Community Research Kitchen in The Bubbler to share in visitor insights about food systems and to explore how systems big and small shape our food cultures. They hosted open kitchen hours each Saturday and Sunday throughout their residency, including additional events peppered in.
Collaborator Sigrid Peterson joined them throughout, and for part of September, Barcelona, Spain-based arts group Nyamnyam’s directors Ariadna Rodriguez and Iñaki Alvarez also joined. Nyamnyam (or “yumyum” in Catalan) aimed to promote creativity, knowledge exchange and culture by creating and sharing strategies to generate dialogue, creating a link between diverse forms of art, and using food as a vehicle to create relations and social contact between people.
Return to the residency archive.
