Lynne McCabe
pot·luck
an environment
April 1 - 23, 2005
pot·luck
1. whatever is available: whatever happens to be
available to satisfy a need
Lynne McCabe’s interactive works focus on a process led and
collaborative practice, creating work that is the product of social
engagement and negotiation.
McCabe designs environments whereby she can manipulate socially
constructed notions of authority and trust, from dinner parties and
the casual interplay of first encounters, to assuming the mantle of
various paradigms from the scientific and media worlds, in order to
explore everyday situations in which peoplechoose to hand over
information about them.
By referencing cultural indicators of safety, intimacy, and
authority McCabe actively and cooperatively investigates the subtle
negotiations of power and truth within society.
In this new work McCabe has chosen the traditional cultural form of
the "potluck dinner’ to explore the concept of value, as it
pertains specifically to Art in our culture.
"By using the form of a potluck dinner and expanding its
premise to Art I wish to offer an alternate model, one out with the
confines of the Art market’s paradigm. In creating an arena where
Art and food are equally valued, I anticipate relative values of
need, want and luxury, to be brought to the fore, begging the
question, how can we as Artists challenge the market and these
apparent societal discrepancies? "
Having invited a handful of Artists to her house McCabe simply
requests that they bring with them a contribution to the meal,
either food or Art.
As host to these interactions, both figuratively and literally
McCabe provides a performative framework, within which participants
may choose to divulge or invest truth about them.
The result is a site-specific installation comprising of a video
piece, color D-type prints and art works created and donated by the
participants.
This is the first in a series of potluck projects, which McCabe
intends to be the source of material for an Artist cookbook, a
percentage of whose profits will go to the United Ways Food Bank
Program.
McCabe requests that visitors to the gallery bring with them a
donation of canned goods that will be donated to a local food bank
at the exhibitions close.
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