How to Build a Fire: Feed Your Head

Friday, February 28, 2020
8PM

What sustains you, what makes you strong, what feeds your soul?

February at Open Source Gallery will feature an interactive exhibition featuring two Denmark artists, Ditte Knus Tønnesen and Ronja Svaneborg. For the Open Source Gallery exhibition, Ditte and Ronja present themselves as Void & Co., a curatorial and artistic collaboration. Their installation, The Octopus Waffle Lab, is a participatory installation, an invitation to collectively rethink our present perception of nourishment, in the context of growing environmental challenges around nutrition.

Void & Co. describes the installation as a space for experimentation and conversation on how we obtain nourishment. Is the nourishment you need far from the kind that you want? When is something a powerful intuitive skill or just a bad habit? How do we differentiate between needs and desires? Have you ever eaten a word, a placebo, a memory or with your eyes closed? What is edible? How do we obtain the characteristics of what we eat? The performative installation explores food culture and heritage, superstitions and emotional connections to food in a time where “what we eat shapes the future.”

For How to Build a Fire this month, we’re interested in the sustenance of all kinds: for the body, for the mind, for the heart. We are inviting our storytellers to tell us tales that explore food in whatever way they like, in its tangible and intangible forms, with all its meanings and repercussions.

Push back against the cold and the quiet. Celebrate with us as we start to take the slow turn toward spring. Join us for How to Build a Fire this month and yes: remember what the dormouse said.

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How to Build a Fire was created by poet Terence Degnan. Each month, four diverse individuals share personal narratives centered around a theme. Their stories weave together an illustration of the human experience. This year’s hosts are Christina Marks and Stacie Evans.

How to Build a Fire takes place at Open Source Gallery — a welcoming, nurturing, intimate, safe environment, a participant-driven art initiative that provides space, community and conceptual context for creative play and critical commentary.