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OREET ASHERY AND LARISSA SANSOUR

FALAFEL ROAD RESIDENCY

2010

Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour will undertake a month long residency at Toynbee Studios during February, supported by Artsadmin and the Live Art Development Agency.
 
The residency will be inspired by Orientalism, chapter six of Ashery and Sansour’s experimental graphic book The Novel of Nonel and Vovel, in which Falafel is used as a contested national symbol of the Near East along with its diasporic manifestations. Falafel Road will comprise twenty publicly engaged meals and happenings in various falafel eateries in London, from restaurants to supermarkets and market stalls.

Public Call for short falafel footage

Wherever you are in the world, we are looking for a short footage of a falafel eating, or other falafel experience. This can be shot on a mobile phone, video camera, or real film.  It can be spontaneous or constructed. The footage will be screened as part of the Falafel Road residency during the whole month of February 2010 at Iniva, London, and Toynbee Studios/Artsadmin, London. It might also find its way into the final Falafel Road film.

Falafel Road will comprise a series of twenty meals at various eateries in London. Some meals open to the public to join, other will include invited guests. The idea to film the meals is inspired by Gordon Matta Clarck restaurant movie from 1970s - The SoHo restaurant co-op Matta-Clarck co-founded in 1971, which served as a social meeting place.

Please send your footage as Quick Time files  ( .mov) either electronically via services such as YouSendIt, with a link to timowenjones@gmail.com, or by post to Tim Owen Jones, Falafel Road Project Manager, c/o Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB, UK to arrive no later than Friday 19 February 2010.

For any further information, please contact info@nonelandvovel.net

FALAFEL MEALS

Falafel Road will comprise a series of publicly engaged meals at various eateries in London, including supermarkets and market stalls.

The public, and specially invited guests, will join Ashery and Sansour every day during the residency for a falafel experience. Twenty meals in total will be filmed by different artists. This psycho-geographical project will chart a subjective and exilic map of the falafel in London, as well map those attending the meals – a collage of friends and colleagues belonging to relevant artistic and political networks. The idea to film the meals is inspired by Gordon Matta Clark’s restaurant movie from 1970s – ‘The SoHo restaurant co-op’ . Matta-Clark co-founded in 1971 a restaurant with friends who cooked there every day, the place served as a social meeting place for fellow artists, friends and by passers.

If you would to join Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour for one of their Falafel meals, please sign up on the Falafel blogspot: http://www.falafelroad.blogspot.com