DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Mitty's News Agency (Level 1)
1/53 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
DATES
Thu 14 May 12 – 5pm
Fri 15 May 12 – 10pm
Sat 16 May 12 – 5pm
Sun 17 May 12 – 5pm
Mon 18 May 12 – 5pm
Have you dined with us before? Let me explain the menu to you. Let me explain hundreds of menus to you. Let me explain what a menu is. Please, just let me explain…
Long Prawn’s first menus were hatched eleven or so years ago. Since then, a habit of documenting what was eaten has taken hold. Ephemera that fills in what might otherwise be forgotten. Culinary leaflets steeped in the characteristics of prawn hospitality.
Fat marbled menus written for communal BBQs, filmic performance dinners, hot rod dining, walking suppers, festive throwdowns and intelligently leveraged canapés.
This exhibition presents a retrospective of such menus, featuring food-stained originals alongside lost and reproduced versions.
Participants
Long Prawn
An artistic food practice that delivers rigorously researched food expertise heavily seasoned with creative event design. Food enveloped in community, props and performance from buffet tables to nouveau-haute cuisine. Responsive, rewarding and resourceful eating, ideas, events and workshops.