The Dialectics of Space dinner combines the use of the space with menu items in order to create an overall sensory experience that is able to permeate participants during a multi-course gastronomical happening.
The courses of each dinner are invented for that meal only with no recipes of the dishes recorded to document them or used in their production. Each one is playful and experimental, often times new culinary techniques need to be learned in order to execute one or multiple components of a dish. Flavor profiles are put on the plates through a laborious process beginning one month prior to the meal itself, then to be consumed, never to be repeated.
The environment utilizes a layering effect of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste - all of which are carefully crafted to give participants an other worldly and unique experience that goes beyond just dining but as a penetration of their bodies through the chemistry which is slowly inhaled as well as that which is ingested. Fermented foods, distilled alcohol, hand-crafted hardwood plates, a live moss table, a pink light causing photosynthesis, molecular liquids encapsulated in membranes, animated conversation with the sounds of chirping crickets in the background, textures and tastes and smells intermingling as all of these things wash over participants.
The Dialectics of Space dinner is therefor not just an event nor is it just a space but it is a cohesive fusion of the two which participants temporarily bathe in and are imbued with.
The courses of each dinner are invented for that meal only with no recipes of the dishes recorded to document them or used in their production. Each one is playful and experimental, often times new culinary techniques need to be learned in order to execute one or multiple components of a dish. Flavor profiles are put on the plates through a laborious process beginning one month prior to the meal itself, then to be consumed, never to be repeated.
The environment utilizes a layering effect of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste - all of which are carefully crafted to give participants an other worldly and unique experience that goes beyond just dining but as a penetration of their bodies through the chemistry which is slowly inhaled as well as that which is ingested. Fermented foods, distilled alcohol, hand-crafted hardwood plates, a live moss table, a pink light causing photosynthesis, molecular liquids encapsulated in membranes, animated conversation with the sounds of chirping crickets in the background, textures and tastes and smells intermingling as all of these things wash over participants.
The Dialectics of Space dinner is therefor not just an event nor is it just a space but it is a cohesive fusion of the two which participants temporarily bathe in and are imbued with.