...Others Drink Through Their Mouths

An unusual installation about an unusual species calls for an equally unusual experience of “drinking” though, so it only felt fitting to Silke to invite her dear friend and artist\chef Gabriel to create a menu of cucumber-inspired drinks for the evening. As you drink (through your mouth) and the evening progresses, you’ll likely find yourself needing to visit the bathrooms - an invitation to intimately experience the installations, one last time.

Some Breathe Through Their Butts was not only an homage to the importance of sea cucumbers in our oceans, but to all kinds of bottom feeders and decomposers without whom our ecosystems would collapse. Over the past year the installation itself has slowly decomposed and transformed, becoming more ‘yucky’ to some while more ‘yummy’ to others, and whether you are compelled to touch or repelled by their looks, the latex sculptures on the bathroom walls might stick to your fingers or crack as a result of time passing. This playfulness with tactility, disgust and beauty is central in both artists’ practices and therefore also serves as a theme for Others Drink Through Their Mouths: An evening of both sweet and salty, slimy and briney, which perhaps leaves you wondering if sea cucumbers could become pickled in the near future. 

Come raise a glass with us, drink with your mouth, and breathe it all in - through whatever means you choose.

Artists 

Silke Riis

Silke Riis is a Copenhagen-born sculptor and installation artist whose work currently revolves around speculative futures and imagined species.

With her sculptures she hopes to reflect the fragility of ecosystems, while offering alternative ideas for the future. Her aim is not to educate on climate change, since she thinks we are way past the need for that, but instead offer composure in the fantasy of our demise.

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Gabriel

Gabriel is an artist and chef from the United States currently working in Den Haag. They’ve worked in restaurants for over a decade and their practice is heavily influenced by the culinary and service industry. They studied Fine Arts at the KABK, the majority of their work being with text-based installation and performative vending of poems and food. They’re recently interested in contemporary gastronomy and poetry to experiment with relationality and complicate consumption.

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Information

Thursday 28th of November 
17:30 - 20:30
Free entrance - RSVP Ticket

For questions please e-mail program@mediamatic.nl.