70 x 7 The Meal act XL. (NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore)

Lucy + Jorge Orta’s ongoing body of work, 70 x 7 The Meal, draws from the ancestral ritual of dining together, to create a social platform for communities to engage in conversations that explore and connect local food initiatives.

Act XL (40), was commissioned by the NTU Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore and took place at Gillman Barracks, on the evening of January 20, 2017. The menu for 200 guests, was prepared by Chef Misso Russell Keith from the Open Farm Community.

Leading up to the dinner, a collaborative workshop organised by Lucy Orta with Foodscape Collective Singapore, brought together local chefs, bakers, farmers, gardeners, policy makers, activists and artists to participate in interactive discussions sessions to examine food sustainability, and to generate a range of playful and provocative topics including, food production-distribution, identity-culture and giving-sharing. The workshop findings were presented to the guests in the form of text-based and edible ‘provocations’, wrapped in furoshiki bundles and placed around exquisite navigation maps –islands of knowledge– created by Lucy Orta. Constructed with layers of textiles originating from South East Asia, the different archipelago topographies were built-up with multiple layers and patterns that proliferated across the dining tables into imaginary landscapes.

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