Consuming (In)Dependency by Biggi Stiller - shortlisted for Fierce Festival

Consuming (In)Dependency
by Biggi Stiller

has been shortlisted for the Fierce Festival 2008
in Birmingham, www.myfiercefestival.co.uk
www.biggistiller.net, biggi@biggistiller.net

Fierce Festival
After a decade of stop-you-in-your-tracks live art events and performances FIERCE the much loved international arts festival is trailblazing once more giving you, the audience, the power to programme your own festival!
Twenty-four live art performances have been shortlisted by Fierce but only nine of them will feature in the Fierce! Festival itself. You now need to vote for the performances you most want to see live. It’s free!
The twenty four shortlisted acts are divided equally into three venue categories – Conventional Theatres, Public Places and Unconventional Spaces. Fierce have reserved a range of spaces. You decide what goes in them.
So how does it work?
• Read the artist pitches on the My Fierce Festival website www.myfiercefestival.co.uk
• Choose your top three performances and vote! (one act for each venue category)
• Help is at hand with a leader board; vote tactically to ensure your favorite acts make the final cut!
From 7th April shows with the least votes will be eliminated each day, the most popular shows will then be performed LIVE during Fierce Festival at venues across the West Midlands 23rd – 26th May.
Fierce! International Performance Arts Festival, featuring My Fierce Festival takes place from 21 May 2008 to 1 June 2008.

The Art of Cooking: Guilt, Power, Pain and Dependency
The participatory project “Consuming Independency“ is dealing with issues of power and moral responsibility. It was first explored during the Eat Art Party, curated by Elodie Silberstein, in July 2006 in London.
A limited number of guests (who bid for their tickets on eBay) are invited into a house, where they might end up cooking a meal for the artist without the artist herself being directly involved in the process. Biggi suffers from food intolerances and allergies, which pushes her to stick to a restricted diet. The participants themselves will decide what they want to cook, go shopping and make a meal, which she then eats with the participants. A few weeks later each participant will receive a personalised limited edition project book of the event, including photographs of the process and sound clips of the discussion.

Excerpts from Elodie’s comments in 2006:
“Provocative… this is how at first glance visitors could describe the work of artist Biggi Stiller. But the first sensationalist impression is deceptive and hides a humanistic, respectful and questioning approach. The conceptual side of the work has many complex layers to explore among others, guilt, power, pain and dependency.
To be able to attend the event the public was forced to bid for tickets, to take decisions and to face the consequences of these actions. It was the viewer’s choice and sole responsibility to select and prepare the food that Biggi would then eat, these choices being made with the knowledge of which foods could make Biggi sick…
The project culminated in social interaction between Biggi and the participants. It demonstrated her genuine interest in colluding with the public to confront, analyse and understand issues and concepts that generally remain unsaid.”

Hi all, as you can see above I have been very lucky to be shortlisted for the Fierce Festival in Birmingham. Would be absolutely fantastic if you would drop a vote for me...
http://myfiercefestival.co.uk/artist/biggi-stiller-consuming-in-dependency/

Hope you are all well.
Lots of Love
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Biggi