Hungry Artist
Food | Film | Flux
August 2023 - Present




Hungry Artist is a dinner, film, and flux series that blends performance, food, and moving image into an intimate and immersive experience. Each Hungry Artist event features a film screening, food installation, activations, and discussion. 

The initial inspiration for this series came from a desire to continue the conversation around FOOD, an artist-run restaurant founded by Gordon Matta-Clark, Carol Goodden, and Tina Girouard in Soho. At FOOD, Artists were invited to be guest chefs, as well as work at the restaurant on a regular basis. There was no ordering of many different dishes at FOOD, diners ate what was offered on that day. The menu was simple and affordable. Meals included items like raw mackerel in wasabi sauce, Creole-style stuffed tongue and anchovy onion pie. FOOD was considered to be an "active and dynamic site" which served nearly one hundred people daily in 1972.

The cooking and the meals themselves were a kind of performance, especially the soup. Gooden felt that soup could be used as a sort of "painting" for the table. Matta-Clark developed a meal that he based on bones called Matta-Bones. After the meal, the bones were used to create necklaces for the diners to wear. Another unusual meal was made of living brine shrimp swimming in egg whites called Alive. 


In researching the histories of these artists, piecing together the sounds, infrastructure and deeply collaborative nature of the 60s and 70s I hope to emphasize the importance of community that comes from self activation. With so much expectation around spaces, events and ideas to externally inspire, motivate and ground us I think it's necessary to be reminded of the importance of personal ingenuity and community founded in contributing as much of yourself to the spaces you occupy as possible.