SCREENING AND TALK: Performing in the Kitchen: Bobby Baker’s Kitchen Show
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Performing Arts, Univ. of Winchester)
Wednesday, April 29 / 4:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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This event will include a screening of Kitchen Show (22 min.) and discussion of the work of Bobby Baker. Since the 1970s, performance artist Bobby Baker has created a remarkable body of work in which she explores issues of daily life through art and performance. Baker trained as a painter but soon found it hard to express her ideas in paint alone and turned instead to sugar and cake as more expressive media. She found that the best way of presenting these edible works of art to the public was through performance. The work is performed in a wide range of spaces from theatres to kitchens. In 1991 LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) commissioned Baker to create her Daily Life Series: a quintet of performance pieces, each exploring the universal humdrum of everyday life. In Kitchen Show, Baker opened her London kitchen to the public, sharing with them her own domestic rituals. The piece received unprecedented critical acclaim and media attention and has since toured to “guest” kitchens in many countries. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, performance studies scholar and performer, currently teaches ethnomusicology at UCSB and also holds a post in Performing Arts at the University of Winchester, UK.
Sponsored by the IHC as part of its Food Matters series.
