Better Living through Bitter Melon: A Manual
A National Bitter Melon Council Publication, 2010 In 2010 the National Bitter Melon Council published its first ever book titled, Better Living through Bitter Melon: A Manual, a how-to book that touches on the flavor, the emotion, and the philosophy of Bitter Melon. Untitled from Andi Sutton on Vimeo. The manual is a combination recipe book, farmer’s almanac, Fluxus performance kit, and documentation strategy. Created with the help of a group of graphic design students from...
Read MorePromiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet
A National Bitter Melon Council Public Sculpture and Interactive Outdoor Installation, June – November 2010 Group Exhibition: EAT LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet was a large-scale, public installation in the form of an organic “farmden”(farm + garden) that housed an experimental effort to breed a hybrid variety of melon, a Bittersweet melon. It was installed as part of the group show, EAT LACMA, at the Los Angeles...
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A National Bitter Melon Council Public, Interactive Intervention, Nov. 7, 2010 Group Exhibition: Let Them EAT LACMA, a 1-day performance event celebrating the closing of the garden-focused exhibition: EAT LACMA (June – November, 2010) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Meeting (and its aftermath) carries the essence and inevitability of human contact: exchange, wonder, and change. This Meeting is Bittersweet, a human-scale manifestation of the National Bitter Melon...
Read MorePut Your Bitterness By
A National Bitter Melon Council Performance and Public Intervention, 2011 International Pickling Day Festival, Lower East Side, New York, NY Put your Bitterness By was a site-specific intervention at the International Pickling Day Festival of the Food Museum in New York, NY. The National Bitter Melon Council joined pickling enthusiasts from NYC and beyond to celebrate all things preserved, fermented, and put by. The festival was filled with vendors of fermented pickles,...
Read MoreThe National Bitter Melon Council Mascot
A National Bitter Melon Council Participatory Public Intervention, (2006 – present) The Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, MA The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Boston Metro Area (various locations) During the Topsfield fair (pictured), we traveled fairgrounds as the National Bitter Melon Council Mascot. There, we were observing and understanding the particular culture of the oldest agricultural fair in the USA, disguising ourselves as a friendly mascot for an...
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