Artist Talk
Palaver in the Dark (Decoys with Food)
Palaver in the Dark, Playing in the Dark and Practice in the Dark is the umbrella public programme to include discussions, artists’ screenings, performances, listening sessions, and workshops; in other words, artistic practices and research that is key to the Seeing in the Dark topics and themes, but manifesting through extended formats broadening the exhibition.
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In the Busan Biennale 2024, Thompson presented commissioned work Kimchi-Waakye (2024), which features a wallpaper food-map and a food Installation. The artist talk with Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson provides deeper insight into her creative process and the concepts behind her innovative works, offering a unique opportunity to engage with her exploration of food, art, and landscape.
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Kimchi-Waakye (2024) features a wallpaper food-map and a food installation. The wallpaper features mappings developed from microscopic images of napa cabbage Kimchi, a Korean traditional food. Tracy Naa Koshie Thomson uses Digital Elevation Modelling (DEM) and microscopy to create these close-up terrain maps of ultra-processed foods, morphing them into new and ambiguous forms of representation. The food installation on the benches constitutes a post-production of transforming familiar foods of Ghanaian Waakye and Korean Kimchi, into new ambiguous form.
Waakye which is made of rice, beans and sorghum; the sorghum gives this food landscape its brown colour. Thompson explores bioplastic technology; with her earlier works transforming styrofoam, petrol, oil paint, polyester mesh fabrics, polyethene and polypropylene plastic. Thompson is interested in the material transformation of foods through various industrial cooking processes and in how non-human agencies including starches and proteins transform through crystallisation, fermentation, and polymerisation.
Date: 17th August 2024
Location: Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, 2F Lecture Room, Busan, South Korea
Opening: 13:00 - 14:00 KST prompt.
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