Sunday 4 March 2007

Food skipping and art

Food thrown away by New Covent Garden traders makes its way to a free stall run by Beyond the Free Market. Photo: Eugenia BeirerNew Consumer, Virginia Rowe, 20Feb07:

"Thought salvaging food from skips and cooking it up into a free lunch wasn’t art?

Think again.

Chelsea College of Art & Design graduate Eugenia Beirer is the political artist who launched the Free Market Kitchen as part of her degree show.

On a mission to prove that collaboration is a radical art form, she’s challenging global issues of waste, capatilism and globalisation via her ongoing project Beyond The Free Market. I caught up with her to get the low-down."

Read more here

Thursday 1 March 2007

Craftwerk

From: The Big Idea - an online community of New Zealand's creative industries

"Craftwerk is a marketplace-style event that will be putting a twist on the traditional during the Auckland Festival, AK07. Providing a showcase for young and emerging creatives who distribute select ranges of handmade objects, independently produced publications and music, the event has an 'art-school' or indie vibe – no glass bead chokers or bent-fork wind chimes here!"